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Sustainable Design Starts with Trees
August 05th, 2009
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Posted in Climate Change, Sustainable Lifestyle by Kait Fowlie
The most distinctive quality of the urban environment lies in its landscape.Each individual city has its own sense of character, unique infrastructure, and physical presence. As the urban setting becomes increasingly advanced, we are leaving behind our roots – the tree canopy coverage in the developed [...] Read more »
Renewable Fuel Contenders
Posted by Robert Rapier on September 10, 2009 - 10:15am
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: biomass gasification, palm oil, pyrolysis, sugarcane ethanol [list all tags]
Introduction
I got quite a few interesting e-mails and comments following my previous essay: Biofuel Pretenders. I probably should have mentioned - but I thought it went without saying - that pretenders usually don’t think they are pretenders and will therefore protest [...] Read more »
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new bioregional campus, the Berkeley Sustainability Institute in California with a new program, The Art of Creating Community - Social Permaculture Forum. We’d love for you to join us for this incredible workshop on November 21 and 22nd.
This powerful experiential workshop explores ideas about people and the [...] Read more »
Creation of the Ecovillage Aldeafeliz
Solution
Attachments
en, shared, responsible
Carlos Rojas
org:Ecoaldea Aldeafeliz
email:896@catcomm.org
tel:3144443667
address:Km 2, Vereda San Miguel, Municipio de San Francisco, Departamento de Cundinamarca
Authenticity note
Project posted online. Project recommended by CatComm collaborator.
The idea began with Carlos Rojas, who became familiar with ecovillages while he worked on the eco-neighborhoods (“ecobarrios”) project in Bogotá, where he learned about the global ecovillage [...] Read more »
Global warming and pollution are becoming an increasingly serious threat to oceans and seas as well as the life they sustain. If you have decided to make greener choices, you are on the right path here, but there are still a few simple things we can do to minimize our own impact on the oceans.
Here [...] Read more »
Making Other Arrangements
Wood-Fueled Schools
by Emily Schadler
Published in the September/October 2008 issue of Orion magazine
BRISTOL, VERMONT—On a hot June day in Vermont, I poke my head into the gaping mouth of a twelve-foot-tall combustion chamber and watch as the floodlight shines inward, giving the belly of this fuel-hungry beast a sweltering ambiance. It takes eight hundred [...] Read more »
contributed by Veljibhai Desai.
http://openfarmtech.org
Introduction
This wiki is dedicated to the open, collaborative development of a basic and robust infrastructure for a Global Village economy, as embodied in the list of the 28 of the above products and services. Such a village is by design
one which promotes the highest autonomy and freedom
grounded in self-sufficiency
dedicated to voluntary pursuits, [...] Read more »
www.healingearthconnection.org
Healing Earth Connection
United States
Wojupi Wiconi Waste, Lakota for Garden of Good Life”, is a horticultural program for Elementary students on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. With a focus on reconnecting with the healing energies of Mother Earth, this program brings Lakota children back into harmony with the Earth while teaching the natural [...] Read more »
A Lecture Given by Huey D. Johnson
My topic is The Green Path for Economic Prosperity1. I call it the Green Plan Path, which I see as the doorway to the future. It is relatively new but established, well documented, and working for nations. I see it as the most advanced success in environmental management in [...] Read more »
posted by Melissa Breyer Jul 27, 2008 4:00 am
Seems to me that if manufacturers just stopped making stuff, we’d have plenty of old supplies to keep us clothed, housed, and entertained for quite a while. Instead, those with the money to do so toss things in the dump and replace them with essentially the same [...] Read more »
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Ecologist
July / August 2008
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motherearthnews.com
Harvesting fish from a tank that is an efficient solar collector and using the nutrient-rich waste water to irrigate your garden. Dr. John Todd and Dr William McLarney set out to pursue an entire family of these symbiotic relationships. Joe Seale, Ron Zwieg, Al Doolittle, Hilde Atema Maingay, are involved with these projects.
Read the full [...] Read more »
Green Map System, the award-winning 13-year old non-profit that supports a global community mapping movement, is now building a social mapping website to significantly expand the promotion of green living resources worldwide.
The Open Green Map will invite visitors to add their own commentary, ratings, images and videos to each natural, cultural and sustainability site charted [...] Read more »
