[social_buttons]From biodiversity loss to peak oil to the need for recycling, many of the messages coming from the environmental community have one common underlying theme: scarcity. Messages of scarcity take their power from the fear they produce. As marketing guru Seth Godin points out, fear is a powerful emotion that can make people act. Tell [...]
Sustainable Communities: N55 Grows Our Human Potential
November 30, 2008 by 2 Comments
Occam’s Razor: the scientific principle that the most simple, elegant solution to a given problem is the one most likely to be true. N55 takes the notion of assembling the world into a sustainable community with a fair mechanism for exchanging resources and simplifies it to its very barest elements. You will find little elaboration [...]
Another Green Living Option: Hand Wash Your Clothes
November 29, 2008 by 37 Comments
… and easily trade cost and environmental impact, for time! “Do laundry”… what does that mean to most of us? It means carting a large pile of clothes in a bin or basket to one’s home washer and dryer, or if you’re one of the many unfortunate bunch like me, you cart it to a [...]
Curbside Composting: A Valuable Community Service
November 28, 2008 by 8 Comments
This past spring, my family and I were able to get all the compost we needed for our vegetable garden from a local community’s compost pile at their department of public works. The compost was created from all of the leaves and yard clippings that had been collected curbside. Many communities collect leaves, clippings and [...]
Sustainable Communities Series: Rhizosome Collective Inspires a Nation
November 26, 2008 by Leave a Comment
“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” – Charles Kettering Whoever said a sustainability was impossible?! Sustainability, impossible?!? That kind of negative thinking is nowhere to be found among the members of the Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas. They see a problem with the way we [...]
