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Category: Media
Hate Waste? New Site Offers Community, Action Ideas
Hate to see good, useful stuff go to waste? So do the folks behind We Hate to Waste, a new online community dedicated to sharing solutions for minimizing and/or eliminating waste from our daily lives.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Intentional Community
Ever think about chucking it all, finding a group of like-minded people, and creating a community that aligns with the way you really want to live? Yeah, we’ve all considered that… and a few of us, here and there, have actually acted on the impulse. For many, the Fellowship for Intentional Community has served as the resource for learning more about such communities.
From Trash to Table: Austrian Activists Launch Freegan Cooking Show
Dumpster diving has become a kind of hip response to this waste of perfectly good food, and now a group of Austrian activists have taken “freeganism” to the next logical step: they’ve created a cooking show for food “rescued” from grocery and restaurant dumpsters.
sustainablog's Top Posts from 2012
As we prepare for another year of publication (and the celebration of our 10th anniversay), we’re taking a look back at what topics and posts did well during 2012.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from sustainablog!
A very happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Joyous Kwanzaa, or whatever greeting works for you, to all of our readers from sustainablog!
The Carbon Footprint of Santa's Trip Around the World [Infographic]
Flying reindeer and a sleigh would seem like a pretty eco-friendly form of travel… but even Santa has a carbon footprint. Toys take energy to make, lumps of coal are carbon-intensive, and reindeer produce methane just like cattle. Here are some suggestions for St. Nick and team for cutting the environmental impact of their annual trip around the world.
End-of-the-Month Crowdfunding on Hangin' with sustainablog
Missed today’s Hangin’ with sustainablog Hangout on Air? No problem – we’ve got it recorded for you.
Come Hang with sustainablog to Discuss Current Green Crowdfunding Projects
On this week’s Hangin’ with sustainablog Hangout on Air at Google+, we’ll be discussing cool green crowdfunding projects… whether they’re ours, a friend or colleague’s, or just something we cam across and liked. Several creators of current projects will join us, as well as members of the Important Media team.
Why Buy Local? Why Not? [Infographic]
Feeling the need to do some holiday shopping over the next few days? No doubt, some will find Black Friday (or, shoot, Black Thursday now) deals too tempting to resist. But if you can wait a day, and focus your buying on small, local businesses on Small Business Saturday, you’ll avoid a lot of environmental impact, and do more good for your local economy.
Time for Environmentalists to Get Emotional? Love Thy Nature
Is it time for us to start paying attention to our emotional connection to nature again? Sylvie Rokab thinks so, and her in-production documentary Love Thy Nature argues for a more emotional environmentalism.
Come Hang with sustainablog to Discuss Recycling
Did you know that tomorrow, November 15, is America Recycles Day? That’s OK if you didn’t – this one hasn’t quite reached the status of Earth Day. But it could, as most of us almost automatically associate “environmental action” with “recycling.” Is that a good thing? Let’s discuss…
Sustainable Seafood from Head to Tail: Maria Finn’s The Whole Fish
Ever eaten a whole fish? No doubt you’ve probably been served one at some point, but you probably didn’t eat everything: the head, fins, and bones stayed on your plate. Food writer and former Alaska fisherwoman Maria Finn thinks that’s wasteful; furthermore, she sees the waste on our plates as symbolic of how we treat our fisheries and marine life generally. Her new book The Whole Fish: How Adventurous Eating of Seafood Can Make You Healthier, Sexier, and Help Save the Ocean covers a wide range of concerns surrounding seafood sustainability.