Russian environmental groups have today launched a legal challenge against a consortium led by U.S. oil and gas giant Exxon, for threatening critically endangered whales in the far east of [ … ]
Tag: green
A Meditation on Being American… and My Role in Global Sustainability
This blog post was written in response to some unusually caustic replies received on my last Sustainablog post, “The Dissonance Between Dreams: Re-writing the Sust Enable Episode Scripts.” It was [ … ]
sustainablog, Green Options Media Featured on GreenTalk Podcast
So, where are my manners? The good folks at Green Living Ideas posted the podcast interview I gave with Sean Daily just over a week ago, and I have yet [ … ]
Building a Mobile Kitchen
Some people build houses. Others, go abroad and help build or rebuild communities. Still others build… mobile kitchens! Earlier this year, students from the University of Toronto‘s master’s program at [ … ]
Life Cycle: Greening the Other White Meat
Sarah Smarsh and Simran Sethi are writing a series on the impacts of everyday things. They will be posting previews on Green Options before launching the posts on Huffington Post [ … ]
Green Report Card for US College Campuses
When the future of our planet’s environment is concerned, one of the groups that we hope are paying attention is those currently attending college. They will be the leaders, the [ … ]
The Hidden Cost of $40 “Bling Water”
Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh are writing a series on the impacts of everyday things.They will be posting previews on Green Options before launching the posts on Huffington Post. Here’s [ … ]
Top Ten Ways to Make Your Wedding Sustainable
So, the knee has been bent, the question has been asked, the positive answer given. Now comes the (un)fun part: organizing the wedding. Along with choosing the band, the cake, [ … ]
So You Compost, Drive a Hybrid, Wear Recycled Boots and Eat a Lot of Hummus, But Are You Green Enough?
This is a guest post by Aaron Szymanski, President of Evo Design, an award-winning industrial design firm housed in a refurbished water treatment plant in Watertown, CT. The good thing [ … ]
Green Shoe Fetish
Sarah Smarsh and Simran Sethi are writing a series on the impacts of everyday things. They will be posting previews on Green Options before launching the posts on Huffington Post. [ … ]
Yoga: The Union of You and the Planet
Sarah Smarsh and Simran Sethi are writing a series on the impacts of everyday things. They will be posting previews on Green Options before launching the posts on Huffington Post. [ … ]
Towards a (Re)Definition of Sustainability: Justin Van Kleeck and Caroline Savery. 6-Caroline
Dear Justin… and Dear all! Special thanks to Jeff Strasburg for helping us indulge our imaginations in this series! I’d also like to extend my gratitude to Justin for engaging [ … ]
Layers of Ecology: Book Review for A Matter of Scale by Keith Farnish
“Businesses and politicians have no part whatsoever to play in the solution: it is all about individual ‘non-civilians’.” -Keith Farnish The Sust Enable webcast series was spawned in a climax [ … ]