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This Green Living community of bloggers offers ways to live eco-friendly at home and work, while also offering news on large scale, earth friendly advances being made worldwide. If you would like to participate, please contact: Laura Roach
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261 Articles match "Examples","Locales"
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Our Cities Ourselves: 10 Principles for Transport in Urban Life
Get real: Preserve and enhance the local, natural, cultural, social and historical assets. Our Cities Ourselves: 10 Principles for Transport in Urban Life” showcases examples of cities reaping the benefits of integrating urban planning and design that gives priority to pedestrians and transit. Cyclists in Hangzhou, China. link].
The Green Changemakers
- Friday, July 23, 2010
Introduction to Permaculture by Steve Diver
Furthermore, as permaculture principles may be adapted to farms or villages worldwide, it is site specific and therefore amenable to locally adapted techniques of production. Introduction to permaculture 2. Permaculture defined 3. Characteristics of permaculture 4. The practical application of permaculture 5. Books on permaculture 7.
The Green Changemakers
- Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Is Local Food Better?
Editor's note from World Watch Institute : The local-food movement has been gaining momentum in developed countries, and in many developing countries as well, in recent years; in the United States alone, sales of locally grown foods, worth about $4 billion in 2002, could reach as much as $7 billion by 2011. What's "Local"?
The Green Changemakers
- Thursday, April 16, 2009
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If consumers don’t understand the Smart Grid, can utilities sell it?
Neither had heard of the Smart Grid, but knows about the local wind power project. Tagged: AMI, demand response events, energy management systems, Facebook, National Grid, smart grid, Social Media campaign examples, Town Hall events, Twitter, Utility Scale deployment. I believe the Smart Grid is an eventuality. Laura, John and Family.
Green Life Smart Life
- Friday, September 18, 2009
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Local Solutions to the Global Water Crisis
Thirty years of applied research supported by the International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) offers a new focus for global efforts to curb water demand and alleviate poverty: community-based or local water management. If these efforts are to continue and to expand, local people will need ongoing support from their governments.
The Green Changemakers
- Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Community Supported Agriculture in local neighborhoods
Community Supported Agriculture in local neighborhoods Neighborhoods are the center of unity in many areas; interpersonal relations, emotional support, community safety, healthy recreational activities, and the provider of healthy local food for all its citizens. As Americans, we have many choices to make. In Berkeley, Calif.,
The Green Changemakers
- Friday, April 2, 2010
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Local Communities Showcase the Way to Sustainable Future
In the midst of this global economic crisis, there is a movement happening in some of the hardest hit places in America – local communities. And that’s just what Joe Grafton, founding director of the Somerville Local First has set out to prove. So Joe Grafton has set out on a mission.
Green Life Smart Life
- Monday, May 25, 2009
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31 Ways to Jump Start the Local Economy
Take your money out of predator banks and put it into a credit union, local bank, or an institution like Shorebank Pacific that supports sustainable businesses. If you can’t do that, then look for local produce in season at your locally owned grocers. Hold on to the local businesses you already have. Pay off debts.
The Green Changemakers
- Saturday, May 30, 2009
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Imported food could be greener than local, says DEFRA
The £161,000, two-year Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Food Commodities report suggests the "food miles" argument, which advocated locally-produced food over produce transported over great distances, is often flawed. Local food is better than imported food and I stand by that statement for it makes sense. And pigs fly, says me.
Green (Living) Review
- Friday, August 28, 2009
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Alabama Chanin’s Studio Style: More DIY Projects from the Southern Handcrafting Guru
CFDA finalist and long-time Eco Chick fave ( see our coverage of S/S ‘09 here ), Natalie Chanin’s designs are, in these global times, truly Local. The corset pattern is included in Alabama Stitch Book and this is a great example of how an old t-shirt can be made into something really modern and sexy.&#.
Eco Chic
- Monday, February 15, 2010
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£280million for councils to protect frontline services and strengthen local economies
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) A pot of £280million is being given to councils so they can continue to improve services from crucial skills and jobs programmes to arts facilities for young people to town centre regeneration projects, announced Local Government Minister Rosie Winterton on March 31, 2010.
Green (Living) Review
- Saturday, May 15, 2010
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Food for Thought: Eating Local in the Face of a Global Food Crisis
For example, the GeenSeeker, a computerized sensor that scans a plant’s leaves to evaluate the amount of nitrogen it needs, could stop overfertilization, saving farmers thousands and minimizing harmful byproducts of fertilizer. Eating local” means eating the food that grows near you and is in season.
The Green Changemakers
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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