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BlogARTICLES BY TITLE
"10 Things You Can Do About Global Warming (Yes, even if you're not yet an adult)" (a booklet for children, grades 4-8)
"Beat the Heat with Passive Cooling"
"Edible Landscaping" (online resource list)
"Global Warming: How do we move forward?"
"Going Organic" (pdf)
"Greywater soaps and shampoos"
"Growing Your Grassroots Community: Creating Environmental Change in Your Neighborhood" (pdf)
"Obtain a Yield" (pdf)
"Our 'End of the Economy' moment"
"Raising Children to a Climate Change Future"
"ReLocalizing Your Urban Lifestyle " (pdf 365K)
"Resilience: A View from the Transition Movement"
"Soil: Smooth or Chunky?" (pdf)
Solar Cooking (online resource list)
"The Timeline to Sustainability"
Transition: "A movement or an organization"
"Transition in the Big City" (part 1, part 2)
"Use Sustainability as your Yardstick"
"What We Can Do: The 5R's"
ARTICLES BY TOPIC
BUILDINGS AND HOMES
Water and Greywater (resource page)
CONSUMERISM
CULTURE CHANGE
Community (pdf)
Local focus (pdf)
Parenting (2007 post; 2010 part 1, part 2)
ECONOMY
Community-based economics (resource page)
Economy, state of the (post 1, post 2, post 3)
FOOD
Solar Cooking (resource page)
GARDENS
Edible Landscaping (resource page)
Medicinal/Culinary herb garden
Edible Landscaping (resource page)
GENERAL
Self-Sufficiency versus Sustainability
What We Can Do: The 5R's
GLOBAL WARMING
"Global Warming: How do we move forward?"
TRANSPORTATION
ReLocalization (pdf)
TRANSITION MOVEMENT
"A movement or an organization"
"But this thing can't possibly work"
Kids and Transition (part 1, part 2)
Transition Cities (2010 part 1, part 2; 2009 post)
WATER
Water and Greywater (resource page)
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bookS
Environmental Change-Making:
How to Cultivate Environmental Paradigm Change
in Your Community
(Cathedral Center Press, 2008)
by Joanne Poyourow and
The Reverend Peter H. Rood, Jr.
Read more about Environmental Change-Making here.
Legacy: A Story of Hope
for a Time of Environmental Crisis (VBW Publishing, 2005)
a vision of society's transformation toward a greener, more Sustainable future.
"Legacy ... is an education in Sustainability set in fiction."
-- Southern SierranPreview Legacy at Google Books.
Read more about Legacy here.
Blog
'The Transformation Wave' - Environmental news and discussion with a view toward Sustainability. The full extent of my musings, on Sustainability, society's journey, Positive Environmental News, What Can I Do?, urban Permaculture, my organic edible landscaping garden, childrearing toward Sustainability, and other topics. Blog features:
* What Can I Do? action items, lifestyle tips, and commentary about making environmental and social change more than just a good idea ... bringing Sustainablity to life.
* Transforming a Life - 'field notes' as I strive to live more Sustainably while raising a family in the midst of Los Angeles
* Positive Environmental News - a pick-me-up for the activist's spirit: purely the good-news stories about environmental and social change
RESOURCE LISTS
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Photo credit: Cottage Garden by Susan McManus, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.