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Tag: Sustainability
A Follow-Up to Living Without Electricity: What Is Truly Sustainable?
In my blogathon post, I wrote about ten reasons why I choose to live without electricity in my house. Inspired by some of our readers’ comments, I offer this follow-up [ … ]
Dancing Rabbit Blogathon Wrap Up
Editor’s note: Many thanks to Dancing Rabbit co-founder Tony Sirna for providing this wrap-up post! We’ll also be doing the prize drawing very shortly, and announce those winners. The Sustainablog [ … ]
Top 10 Reasons to Live in an Electricity-Free Home (PPB #27)
When I designed my cob house here at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage two years ago, I decided that I was going to live without electricity. I had no plans to buy [ … ]
Changing Habits: A Radical Act? (PPB #25)
It takes thirty days to change a habit, right? If it were only that easy… we know patterns we’ve built up over our lifetimes don’t change on a dime… or [ … ]
Another Perspective on Earth Hour (PPB #24)
When I wrote my post on Earth Hour in the wee hours, I did not know that Beth Buczynski would also be covering the topic for her guest post at [ … ]
Optimism is Sustainable… and Radical (PPB #23)
Ever considered optimism as a political act? Jess Lundie borrows this concept from Worldchanging’s Alex Steffen, and creates a guest post at Openly Balanced around the idea that the kind [ … ]
5 Radically Sustainable Ideas for Wal-Mart (PPB #6)
As long-time readers know, I’ve been a fan of Wal-Mart’s shift in more sustainable directions. You might imagine, though, that such admiration isn’t necessarily shared by people practicing more radically [ … ]
What Can a Soccer Ball Teach Us about Embodied Energy?
When I stumbled upon this video of the production of an Adidas 2010 World Cup soccer ball, it struck me as a huge lesson in embodied energy. Embodied energy is [ … ]
Four Missouri Communities Demonstrate Sustainability
There’s a revolution happening in the middle of the country, outside of urban influence, in the rolling prairies, and nestled amongst fields of corn, wheat, and soybeans. You might be [ … ]
Enterprise Shifts North American Shuttle Fleet to Bio-Fuel
Enterprise Holdings, owners of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Alamo, and National, have announced plans to convert their entire North American fleet of airport shuttles buses to biofuels within the next five years.
sustainablog’s Pedal-a-Watt Powered Blogathon coming in March
UPDATE: The folks at Convergence Tech, Inc. have given us a very generous deal on a Pedal-a-Watt pedal power generator for the blogathon, so we’ve changed the name of the [ … ]
First Earth: Watch this Earthen Building Documentary Online
There’s a growing ecological awareness in all aspects of daily life, but some of our newfangled environmental actions have already been in practice for hundreds (or thousands) or years. “Green [ … ]