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Eat Local Heats up for the Summer
Bay Area Bites | 14 hours ago
No matter where you are in the nation, summertime is the perfect time to consider eating more locally grown food. It's good for your local economy, good for the environment, and good for your families. Besides all of that, it tastes great.SHARETHIS read more
Raspberry fools and fruity birds
Allotment Junkies | 15 hours ago
Some of you may have read with envious eyes that we were lucky enough to be donated a fruit cage.. We duly constructed the cage, and promised ourselves that when the fruits from our strawberries, raspberries, back-currants, white-currants and goosebe read more
Clean Alternatives to Everyday Machines: On/Off/Switch?
CleanTechnica | 22 hours ago by Lucille Chi
To wrap up my ode to John Henry (and a more sustainable lifestyle) I am going to cover a few more everyday household plug-ins by giving the current ON the grid offering, it’s OFF the grid alternative, and weigh in on whether a switch is warrant read more
Conversations and collaboration are the way forward...
Learning Conversations | July 7th 2008
if you are interested in creating a sustainable world. This is one of the core messages that I got out of reading Peter Senge's new book, The Necessary Revolution. This book is a testament to the power of conversation and a must read for anyone inter read more
Turning Trash Into Treasure: How Diverting Waste is the Ultimate…
Sustainablog | July 7th 2008
Note: My inspiration for posting this is attributable to the many radically creative and excellent ideas in Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community by H.C. Flores. The clock is ticking. On Wednesday read more
Sustainability Takes “Green” to Next Level
DJ Products, Inc. Blog | July 7th 2008 by Jake Devine
Everyone is “going green” these days. Concern for the environment sparked “green” businesses, but skyrocketing fuel prices have ignited those efforts, pushing environmental practices ever more quickly toward sustainability. Wh read more
CEOs Think Green Is Long-Term Trend
Clean Energy Leader | July 7th 2008
Slightly more than half (52%) of Northeastern Wisconsin CEOs surveyed for the latest Nicolet Bank Business Pulse, designed and implemented by IntellectualMarketing, selected economic growth over environmental protection while 35% preferred protection read more
Ford On Difficulty Translating Sustainability Into Customer Benef…
Clean Energy Leader | July 7th 2008
Short clip from Cornell’s eClips of Niel Golightly, director or Sustainable Business Strategies for Ford Motor Company, on how to translate the concept of sustainability into customer benefits. read more
Hope No One Turned into a Lobster this Weekend
Green Plan(t) | July 7th 2008 by Amy
After learning how disgusting many of commercial sunscreens are, including the two we had in the house, and because I didn’t get a chance to get any others before the weekend, we ended up staying indoors 90% of the weekend. It was fine in my bo read more
Our Stuff and the Cradle-to-Grave Supply Chain
Max Gladwell | July 7th 2008 by Max Gladwell
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Joni Mitchell in my head
pacha mona, tropical organic garden | July 7th 2008 by ancel
How does the song go, “Going to camp out on the land, going to try to get my soul free . . . got to get ourselves back to the garden”? Today I went with friends to look at a piece of ‘the garden’ they want to buy. We drove into the hills ove read more
“I am NOT a paper cup…”
The Everyday Environmentalist | July 7th 2008 by Brian & Lisa
Okay, so it may seem that half of the posts on this blog have been about paper cups lately…but this is my last cup post for a while, I promise… My colleague Jennifer spotted this eco-friendly cup in the “green” section of a gi read more
Digest This: Monday Food News
The Jew & The Carrot | July 7th 2008 by The Jew & The Carrot
Welcome back from the long weekend! Hopefully, the last bits of July 4th merriment have been scraped off the grill and the leftovers are tucked into Tupperware for lunch. To help you acclimate back to the work week, here are a three tidbits from th read more
Dow’s Human Element Campaign
Melodies in Marketing | July 7th 2008 by Mario Vellandi
[Video Link for Email/Other Subscribers] Date: June 3, 2008 Location: Sustainable Brands 08 - Monterey, California Organizer: Sustainable Life Media, Business & Industry News for Sustainability Introducer: Jacquelyn Ottoman - President, J. Ottoma read more
Your Marketing’s Carbon Footprint: Does It Matter?
Portland's Finest Advertising Blog | July 7th 2008 by Phil Bernstein
On LinkedIn’s Answers Forum, Don Carli asked this question: Is it important for advertisers to know the carbon footprint of the advertising media they buy? My answer, which I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about, was this: While ther read more
Biofuels to Blame for Food Crisis
The Global Sociology Blog | July 6th 2008
In the past months, I have blogged rather extensively on the food crisis and the relationship to the growth of biofuels (see here, here, here, here , here , here , here and here ). In the context of the G8 meeting, the correlation between biofuel gro read more
The tax landscape
Tree Gal Blog | July 6th 2008 by Theresa Petrey
My Fourth of July was spent at the home of one of the members of my brother in law’s extended family. It was a large and lovely home with beautiful amenities. My host lives with his wife in this large house all by themselves. Not being in a Seattle read more
Who would wait a week in line for an iPhone 3G?
iPhone News Updated | July 6th 2008 by thanaads
Heyward, Casey, Dane, Daniel and Kaitlin Who’s crazy enough to camp out for a week on the streets of New York City for a chance to be first to buy an iPhone 3G? TheWhoFarm, that’s who, a newly minted publicity-seeking environmental collective wi read more
ikoo electric bike
Design Trends | July 6th 2008
This design is durable, good looking, well rationalized for manufacture and folds into a small package for storage.Crafted out of T304 surgical stainless steel alloy, the body provides extreme durability and stylish design.Storage is assisted with qu read more
Australia Switches Off Incandescent Bulbs
Design Trends | July 6th 2008
From our friends at Treehugger. An article now a year old. Something that all national governments should be implementing. An innovation which significantly benefits everyone including light bulb manufacturers, users governments as well as the enviro read more
Cows and the Environment
Design Trends | July 6th 2008
According to the Rainforest Action Network, an environment protection organization based in San Francisco, vast rainforests in the Latin American Region have been lost since they have extended beef stock farms by destroying forests.The U.S. hambur read more
abundant skies: 8 principles for successful rainwater harvesting
Dismantle Civilisation | July 6th 2008 by andy
8 principles, by Brad Lancaster on Oil Drum: Local. Principle #1: Begin with long and thoughtful observation. Principle #2: Start harvesting rain at the top of your watershed, then work your way down. Principle #3: Always plan an overflow route, and read more
Shifting the paradigm in Berlin: Art, Ecology & Education
Sound Of Sirens | July 6th 2008
'Art, Ecology & Education provides pathways to an integrated and sustainable way of living. We participate in the development and integration of an ecologically conscious and systemic worldview. Using a holistic and transformative approach in our read more
Compassion in Action 2: The Careful Gardener
Sustainablog | July 6th 2008
Having discussed one way to be compassionate in your home by safely catching a fly, I feel compelled to be of even more assistance in helping you to be a kind, friendly presence outside of your own abode as well. So now that you are well practiced in read more
Green Happy Hour (Baltimore)
Common Waters | July 5th 2008
[Repost from www.herringrun.org] When: Mon, Jul 7, 6pm – 8pm Where: Herring Run Watershed Center, 3545 Belair Rd. 21213 (map) Join the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance and the Herring Run Watershed Association at the new Herring Run Watersh read more
Bush Hits the Road to Embrace his legacy
Spatially Relevant | July 5th 2008 by Jon Gatrell
President Bush is touring America to see what he has done. This Onion piece is clearly something I wish would happen, but parody rarely become reality. Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency read more
New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry
Clean Energy Leader | July 4th 2008
In a new video, “Sustainability: The Textile Revolution,” Cotton Incorporated discusses what’s now possible in eco-friendly textile processing. A follow-up to the cotton industry group’s video on the fabric’s agricultura read more
Cute Pixar Robots Save the Planet and Shame American Lifestyles i…
IDiosyntocracy | July 4th 2008 by Faelan Riverkeep
If you have yet to see "Wall-E" by Pixar, go--go--go! It's a wonderfully touching film that manages to skewer American consumerism while convincing you that robots can love, all with an unapologetic message to seriously consider how our lifestyles ar read more
Musings on My Trip to Italy
What's your Ecotype? | July 4th 2008 by Ian Parnell
July 4th already, how did that happen? (Happy Birthday United States!). Time goes by quickly in the summertime, especially after a long trip. My wife and I spent a month in Italy over this May and June and it's taken me longer than I anticipated to r read more
Flush Your Toilet With Recycled Gray Water
Angela Moland Barnes - Cultivating business and design | July 4th 2008 by Angela Moland Barnes
This is my first posting via ShareThis. Here’s what happened: My friend, Tangelia (the knower of all things awesome), sent me this article published on Green Upgrader via email. From her email, I linked to the site. When I finished reading, the read more
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