On July 27th, the Environmental Change-Makers meeting was a host site for the “Party for the Planet” organized by Union of Concerned Scientists activists. We watched a short documentary on global warming and participated in a conference call which united California activists in many cities across the state. There were more than 2,000 people listening on the call.
The […]
Funny thing, I know my grandmother used to have one. Certainly the elderly lady from whom we bought this property used hers … and we tore it down with great disdain, as one of our first actions of ownership.
Theirs were clotheslines, long weather-frayed lines we yuppies deemed eyesores. Mine are folding wooden racks, tres chic.
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You’ve seen “An Inconvenient Truth.” As the credits rolled, you sat there stunned. What can I do about this mind-boggling problem?
There are so many things we can do in our mainstream American lifestyles.
* Many lists of “things to do” are referenced from the “What Can I Do?” section of this website.
* Parade magazine (of all places!) […]
Edible gardens, homegrown food, home cooking … my new motto is “a little at a time.”
About 3 years ago I had a much better handle on it. My garden was producing rather abundantly, and we often ate complete meals from the garden, with only the odd ingredient store-bought. Many weeks a homegrown vegetable would grace […]
In the “not quite what it seems” department …
“Indiana farming town tries for all-renewable energy” (AP 7/9/06)
Headline sounds great. They’re going to go for 100% renewables, “generating [their] own electricity and gas, using everything from municipal trash to farm waste, hog manure and even town sewage.”
Using what they have locally - that sounds great. Breaking […]
An article in UK based TimesOnline speculates that air fares will double within Europe with the passage of a new carbon tax.
The article reminds us that “Aviation is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases, and flights within Europe are on course to double by 2020 and triple by 2030.” The number of flights is […]
Our summer celebration on Aug. 24 offers a challenge for each of us. We will try to bring food from within a 100 mile radius of our homes or the meeting site.
It might be as easy as harvesting homegrown peaches or making lemonade from your backyard tree. It might mean your first-ever exploration of our local […]
The slow-cooker or crock-pot is the mainstay of many a busy mom. But my new slow-cooker has a twist: it’s fully Sustainable.
This week, the kids and I built a Solar Box Cooker. Its designers hastily point out that they “named it the ‘Minimum Solar Box Cooker’ because, at the time, it represented the simplest design […]
THE GREAT TURNING
You’ve asked me to tell you of The Great Turning, of how we saved the world from disaster.
The answer is both simple and complex.
We turned.
For hundreds of years we had turned away as life on earth grew more precarious.
We turned away from the homeless men on the streets, the stench from the river, […]
Rob posed the idea: If you had free access to the main billboard in the town you are planning an energy descent process for, what would YOU put on it?
Here in Media Central (Los Angeles) I am painfully aware of how the peak oil message doesn’t fit neatly into a sound-bite. And, in this sprawling […]