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Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 3 – Crunching the Carbon Footprint Numbers

In “Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 1,” I argued that if people are serious about confronting climate change, they need to stop reading lists of tips on how to reduce their carbon footprint and gather a few reliable resourc… Continue

Posted by Jay Kilby on July 1, 2009 at 3:25pm

Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 2 – Taking Political Action

As one new climate study after another crosses our headlines, most of us have come to understand that the problem is real, but we are uncertain about what we need to do about it. In Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 1 – Sources o… Continue

Posted by Jay Kilby on July 1, 2009 at 3:15pm

Creating a Personal Plan for Confronting Climate Change: Part 1 – Sources of Information

Although climate change denial is alive and well, most of us are beginning to acknowledge the wisdom in Governor Schwarzenegger’s analogy: denial of climate change is like taking your sick child to 100 doctors and siding with the two who tell you that nothing needs to be done against the 98 who say that the child must take medicine or die (Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 138).

Most of us are on board in recognizing the threat posed by climate change and our responsibility to do… Continue

Posted by Jay Kilby on July 1, 2009 at 3:11pm

PERMACULTURE (PERMACULTURA)

Our NGO/ONG in Brazil - ABTC-BRASIL - is broadening our approach to 'family agriculture' and in concentrating on developing our school to teach ecologically sustainable agriculture and the customs and language (Portuguese) in the country.

The word "Permaculture" was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist, and one of his students, David H… Continue

Posted by Donald Reid on June 22, 2009 at 11:00am

We Need to Stop Eating the Oceans: Commentary by Captain Paul Watson

The Oceans are like the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg. As long as it was alive it laid a golden egg each day but then the greedy farmer decided to kill it to get all the gold inside and found nothing and the Goose laid no more golden eggs because it was dead.

For centuries, the oceans have fed humankind. But in the last century, human greed has raped and pillaged oceanic eco-systems remorsefully with an ecological ignorance that is staggeringly insane.

I don't eat fish because I a… Continue

Posted by SustainableSeas on April 8, 2009 at 2:28pm

Very Important slide show presentation on the damage plastic bags do to the environment

Please follow this link and check it out.

Posted by Zig on April 7, 2009 at 9:26pm

Bottle Water Carries Hidden Cost to Earth

Here's the link to the article

Posted by Zig on April 7, 2009 at 9:10pm

NBC branding itself as the Green Network

Here's the link from Fast Company Magazine.

Posted by Zig on April 1, 2009 at 8:30pm

Tracking the Water Footprint

Here's a link to the New York Times story.

Posted by Zig on April 1, 2009 at 8:00pm

System Mandalla

Today's agriculture and food systems are extraordinarly productive, but in the long run may not be sustainable. They have created tremendous pressure on natural resources and surrounding natural habitats, as well as compromising the economic health of rural communties, the food security of economically disadvantaged citizens, and the well-being of many of those who grow and harvest our food.
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Through our research, education, and outreach programs, the system works to create agriculture and food… Continue

Posted by Donald Reid on March 31, 2009 at 11:37am