The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Urban Homesteading, Green Colleges, and Recycling by the Numbers

Dog days of August? Not at sustainablog!

While most people are wondering if the summer heat is ever going to end, we were hitting our stride here: many more posts, and much more variety. Perhaps it was the cool breeze created by fingers flying across the keyboard…

August 2008

• Kelli Best-Oliver reported on a couple of bloggers documenting the American urban homesteading movement.
• Low Impact Living discovered a much better investment than the stock market: green home improvements.
• Lisa Kivirist showed us how to adopt a neighbor’s fruit tree.
• Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris wondered if free online open-source textbooks represented the future for college students.
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• Tom Schueneman shared his thoughts on Sierra magazine’s list of the ten greenest and coolest colleges in the US.
• Adam Williams laid out the good, bad and ugly recycling statistics.
• Max Gladwell listed 10 ways that social media and sustainability line up.
• Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute expounded on the need to raise water productivity.
• John Ivanko argued that an ECOpreneuring venture offered the opportunity to blend work and lifestyles.
• Aaron Symanski asked “Are you green enough?”
• Keith Rockmael took a look at a new home for old appliances in San Francisco.
• Robin Shreeves took the “Green my Vino” Facebook app for a test drive.
• Justin van Kleek and Caroline Savery engaged in a multi-post dialogue on (re)defining sustainability.
• Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh got e-wasted.
• Environmental Defense Fund’s Sheryl Canter revealed twenty tips for saving energy contributed by EDF blog readers.
• And Amiel Blajchman considered the sustainability of e-billing.

Next: Back to School… September 2008

Read more of the sustainablog 2008 year-end wrap-up

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