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Our Cities Ourselves: 10 Principles for Transport in Urban Life
The publication’s purpose is to reframe the issue of transport so that it is no longer seen as separate from, but rather integral to, urban design. Get real: Preserve and enhance the local, natural, cultural, social and historical assets. Cyclists in Hangzhou, China. Download the publication here. Make it last: Build for the long term.
The Green Changemakers
- Friday, July 23, 2010
Introduction to Permaculture by Steve Diver
Permaculture involves ethics of earth care because the sustainable use of land cannot be separated from life-styles and philosophical issues. 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.
The Green Changemakers
- Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Bestival Is EnvironMENTAL!
Plus all the other power generators in the Tomorrow’s World area, that power the WI Tent, Farmer’s Market and Sushi Yurt will be run on local Wight Made Biodiesel – made from the 1,600 litres of used cooking oil collected from the all the food stalls at Bestival 2009. You too can sign upp to the 10:10 pledge. home with you.
Green (Living) Review
- 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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Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions
Week 1: Sustainability & Climate Change Week 2: Environment & Ecological Footprint Week 3: Water Week 4: Resource Use Week 5: Population Week 6: Food Week 7: Poverty Week 8: Health Week 9: Consumption & Media Literacy Week 10: Quality of Life Week 1: Sustainability & Climate Change What Are Global Issues? Information Overload?
The Green Changemakers
- Monday, August 25, 2008
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How Green Is Your Town?
The 200-plus page online initiative draws together resources from government agencies and non-profits across America to address the issues of climate change, sustainability and environmental health in one user-friendly site. Tagged: local living, local sustainability. Finally, a “ No Greenwash Zone ” for products and services.).
Green Life Smart Life
- Friday, May 15, 2009
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Misleading the public on green issues
The only points where I do not have an issue with is the fact about turning of the computer between sessions as a saver of money, the PC and the environment and that in many cases old technology beats new, such as cast iron cookware, for instance. We must concentrate on cleaning up our environment, local and global. Carbon can wait.
Green (Living) Review
- Monday, June 22, 2009
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Boys and Girls Club “Be Great, Be Green” Contest Finalists: Saving the World, and ADORABLE!
Sponsoring organization, the Staples Foundation both provided the prize and surveyed all the Torch Club members about their top environmental concerns (nationally, the kids were concerned with global warming and pollution; locally recycling topped the list- smart kids!). Project Name: Clean Kids/Fresh Air Initiative. Get messy! Sniff!
Eco Chic
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Raleigh Denim: Jeans Showcasing the Future of Style and Sustainability
Although they don’t use organic cotton, Victor explained that using local, conventional cotton seemed to make more sense to him than shipping organic cotton from Pakistan or India, where it is available. Tags: Featured denim jeans local sustainable Raleigh Denim Co-founders Victor and Sarah Lytvinenko.
Eco Chic
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
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Got Environmental Issues? The Next Generation’s On It with Solutions-Oriented Projects Galore
The kids that are coming of age now (Generation Z or Generation Naught) are not only taking our dithering on major environmental issues without much complaint, they are taking all kinds of creative action. Well, I was wrong. Here are four great examples. GreenDream and the Ultimate Green Classroom. Teens Turning Green: Educating Their Peers.
Eco Chic
- Friday, October 16, 2009
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Local Currencies in the Twenty-First Century:
Understanding Money, Building Local Economies, Renewing Community A Conference Report By Susan Witt and Christopher Lindstrom of the E. Among these tools are local currencies. Schumacher Society convened a conference Local Currencies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Money, Building Local Economies, Renewing Community.
The Green Changemakers
- Friday, February 22, 2008
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The Local Food and Farming Revolution
As it happens, I grew up in a little farming community in northeastern Colorado—Yuma—where my family owned the local drug store (complete with soda fountain). m a journalist and communicator at heart, and I started working for the local newspaper in Yuma when I was in the sixth grade. We must make our foodshed as local as possible.
The Green Changemakers
- Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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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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