Posts Tagged ‘solar-energy’

Off-Grid Living: Our Garden

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June 10, 2010  |  Living, composting, food, gardening, green, off-grid living, wildlife  |  Comments Off

Editor’s note: We’re pleased to have Les and Jane Oke join sustainablog’s team of contributors! Off-grid since 1993, the Okes have worked in a variety of fields, including renewable energy installation, organic market gardening, and print and online publishing. They’re writers first and foremost, though, and have published articles at Mother Earth News, Reader’s Digest, [...]

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“Greendex” Ranks America Last

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June 7, 2010  |  green  |  Comments Off

According to National Geographic’s 2010 Greendex survey, Americans scored worst environmental footprints among the world’s top nations.  America did make some strides by improving their rankings from last year’s survey.  India, Brazil and China received the top rankings of the survey. So what exactly is this survey and what it is comprised of? Started just 2 [...]

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PG&E, Prop 16, and Truth in Advertising

“But I swear it was in self defense” Bob Marley exclaims in “I Shot The Sheriff”: “Sheriff John Brown… says kill the seeds before they grow.” With Prop 16, PG&E is trying to kill the seeds of a clean energy future before they have a chance to grow. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and [...]

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Topsoil – Technical Primer for Rainwater Management and Water Conservation

Subject(s):  Topsoil, Primer, Green Infrastructure Partnership, Rainwater Management, Water Conservation ...

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Is There an Animal in Your Pants? Watching Out for Animal Products

As anyone who strives to follow a vegetarian or vegan* lifestyle knows, cutting out animal ingredients to some degree can often be difficult. Even with full ingredient listings and information about country of origin for most products, from foods to clothes*, many veg*n folks still find out–too late, alas–that something they used came from animals. When [...]

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Eat Fresh Veggies All Winter: Make a Root & Vegetable Barrel

May 31, 2010  |  Living, diy, food, gardening, green, root barrel, storage  |  No Comments

If you’re growing lots of vegetables this season, you may want a way to continue to enjoy those homegrown foods during the deep cold of winter. Many garden-grown vegetables lend themselves to long storage in a root cellar, but building a structure specifically to keep roots and vegetables may not be a reality for you. [...]

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Site C Dam – The Crown’s Approach to Treaty 8 First Nations Consultation – Legal Backgrounder

Subject(s):  Treaty 8 First Nations, Site C Dam, Author(s):  West Coast...

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Bill 17 – Clean Energy Act Backgrounder

Subject(s):  Clean Energy Act, Bill 17 Author(s):  West Coast Environmen...

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Shift Logic: Green Digg + Snarky Video

May 26, 2010  |  digg, green, media, shift logic, social news, video  |  No Comments

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 Network have chugged on… green social media lives. One of the latest offerings in this niche brings together Digg-like voting and video: Shift Logic’s “front [...]

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Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities

By Lester R. Brown As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could not help but note the overwhelming presence of cars and parking lots. It was obvious that Tel Aviv, expanding from a small settlement a half-century ago to a city of some 3 million [...]

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