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ENERGY STAR Celebrates Twenty Years of Changing the World
ENERGY STAR is celebrating 20 years of empowering Americans to save energy with its “Change the World” campaign. Take a look at how you can share your own efforts to use energy more efficiently with others.
Fog Collection: Pulling Water From Thin Air
Traveling long distances for fresh water is common in the developing world; now imagine throwing some mountains into the scenario. In places like Nepal, that’s the reality. Fortunately, that reality comes with ample fog… and even the world’s poorest people can harvest that fog with simple technology.
Recycling Therapy, or How to Train Your Parents to Use the Compost Bin
We greenies really want to convince others to adopt simple practices that, collectively, could make a big difference… and we can make ourselves crazy watching others go out of their way to stick to what they’ve always done. Maybe its time for some therapy.
Permaculture Design on Display at Occupy Wall Street
While economic protest drives Occupy Wall Street, it’s not the only thing going on: check out this short film on permaculture design demonstrations and installations in Liberty Square.
ENERGY STAR Video Contest Highlights Simple Ways to Save Energy
Think the kids in the video above are cute and clever? Yeah, me too… which is while I’ll probably give them a vote in ENERGY STAR’s “Be an ENERGY STAR” [ … ]
The Monolithic Dome: efficient, durable, disaster-resistant building
UPDATE: We’ve published part two of Aaron’s interview with the Monolithic Dome Institute. Back in May, I got a chance to spend some time with fellow Important Media contributor Aaron [ … ]
Short Film Discusses GM Crops “Farmer to Farmer”
There have been several points over the past few weeks when I’ve thought “You know what… let’s just take a break on agriculture.” Proponents of biotechnology, organic agriculture, and other [ … ]
Video Trys To Put Relative Smile on Face of Cargill Slaughterhouse Conditions
There has been much written about the state of the slaughterhouse over the past hundred years, with books like The Jungle blazing an enlightening trail, and the much more modern [ … ]
Online Documentary Series The Perennial Plate Dishes Out Sustainble Food Issues
Want to learn about winter salads, how to kill a squirrel and eat it, cranberry jam, making sheep’s milk cheese, or maple syrup? All these food topics and more about [ … ]
Happy New Year from sustainablog!
[youtube width=”480″ height=”344″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4Z9-47RS8[/youtube] Yep, it’s a new year, so why not try something new? We’re really thankful for your participation in 2010 — definitely our best year ever on a [ … ]
Five for Friday: Great Green Blog Posts (7/16/10)
Yep… it’s still all oil spill in terms of the top subjects indexed by Regator. Fortunately, it’s been a good week on that front: the cap seems to be holding, [ … ]
Shift Logic: Green Digg + Snarky Video
The death of Hugg may have created the idea that environmenally-focused social news sites were a non-starter, but other services in this space, such as MindBodyGreen and the Care2 News [ … ]