A great way to start your movement toward radical sustainability is with composting.

Compost is organic material that can be used as a soil amendment or as a medium to grow plants. Mature compost is a stable material with a content called humus that is dark brown or black and has a soil-like, earthy smell. It is created by: combining organic wastes (e.g., yard trimmings, food wastes, manures) in proper ratios

The pursuit of my green lifestyle, anarchist views and desire for social justice converge with Radical Sustainability.

A radically sustainable viewpoint recognizes the inseparability of ecological and social issues and the necessity of ensuring the solution to one problem does not create or worsen another. It develops autonomous energy infrastructures and it opposes US

It has been almost 9 months since I made my commitment to start changing my life to leave better world for my kids. One of the major things on my list was selling my big two story house for a smaller more energy efficient home. Luckily for us we were able to sell that home in 50 days and start construction on a new single level home on a ver

Last year I made some commitments to changing my life for a better future for my kids and myself. Becoming a vegetarian (going on a year), downsizing to a more energy efficient home (under construction right now), and buying and growing locally. Unfortunately, when it came to buying a new Prius hybrid to replace my work commuting car, something just did not feel right. N

My friends and family often ask me the question, Carlos why are you a vegetarian? Most people assume it is either for moral, religious, or health reason that I chose a vegetarian lifestyle. While those are all very strong reasons and benefits of a non-meat diet, the main reason for me was environmental.

Greenhouse Gases

Globally, the agriculture sector produces between 50–75% of anthropogenic methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions respectively, and about five percent of anth

Good Magazine has a cool graphic to help you visualize that vampire energy that your appliances are using while you sleep.

If you’ve got each one of these devices plugged in year round, that’s nearly $300 down the drain and 2,500 kilowatt hours in the grave. Vampire energy sucks a bloody estimated $3 billion per year from U.S. consumers’ pockets.

The real surprise on it is plasma TVs—who knew they were sucking so much energy when “off”? And that game console

Check out waste activist Annie Leonard’s funny, hard-hitting and informative new animated short The Story of Stuff, about the effects of rampant consumption both human health and the planet.

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social is

Al Gore is still being very coy about his future plans, but fortunately for us he has great influence and passion on helping to educate the current candidates on both sides of the isle.

“I have talked to all the major candidates in my party, and a couple in the other party, about the climate crisis. I have given advice and answered their questions and will continue to do so,” Gore told the FT, adding that he had “not decided whether I will endorse any candidate or not, mu

The NewsRoom.com team has put together some really interesting news feeds on global warming and green living, check it out:

http://www.thenewsroom.com/editors_pick/Science+and+Technology/Effects+of+Global+Warming

Want to find easy ways to reduce your pollution?

The Environmental Working Group has a great list of 10 simple things that all of us can do today.

http://www.ewg.org/solutions

Founded by Jules Dervaes (Dur-VAYS) in 2001, Path to Freedom is a grassroots, family operated, viable urban homesteading project established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and reduce one family’s “footprint” on the earth’s dwindling resources.

Since the mid 1980s, all five members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena, California, into an organic permaculture garden supplyi

I am leaving today to go to the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007, in beautiful Portland, Oregon. I know I will enjoy the conference, but I am very excited to visit a city that so environmentaly focused that they have an Office of Sustainable Development which their mission is:
”.. to provide leadership and contribute practical solutions to ensure a prosperous c

Very interesting concept that could solve our engergy problems..

Water as fuel

Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc. makes Aquygen Gas which iss a novel gas made from ordinary water through our patented electrolysis proces

“With the development of our Hybrid Hydrogen Oxygen System (HHOS) we found that Aquygen Gas can be used as a primary fuel source or a fuel additive for gasoline, diesel and aircraft turbine engines. We have applied this br

As I make small, but significant changes in my life in my quest to leave something for my kids it is important to analyze the companies that produce the products that I do still consume.

The past few days I have been looking at the beer I drink to see just how eco-friendly the companies are that produce my favorite brews. New Belgium Brewing, a brewery located in For

My wife and I decided that we would spend the entire day at home to spend some quality time together with our daughter and reduce our carbon foot print by not driving our car.

We are having a great time just sitting around on the floor of our living room talking, dancing and watching the Live Earth Concerts on Sundance.

Join the global movement and take action against the climate crisis Answer the call

In ESCAPE from SUBURBIA director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us.

Watch the trailer

Edible Estates proposes the replacement of the American lawn with a highly productive domestic edible landscape. Food grown in our front yards will connect us to the seasons, the organic cycles of the earth and our neighbors. The banal lifeless space of uniform grass in front of the house will be replaced with the chaotic abundance of bio-diversity. In becoming gardeners we will reconsider our connection to the land, what we take from it and what we put in it. Each yard will be a unique expressi

The more environmentally aware I become the more I see waste, particularly in my office. Now being a software engineer I work in a fairly paperless world, but there is still many people who feel the need to print copies of wiki pages and other documents to bring to meetings, which after the meeting end up in the trash. So I thought I would compile a simple list ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Reduce

• Eliminate unnecessary reports and reduce report size.
• Eliminate unnecessary f

I just ordered from Amazon Who killed the electric car which is a shockingly informative documentary about how GM killed the EV1 program.

There is a short video on Google Video about the movie

I found this great site called Freecycle.org which is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

“The Freecycle Network was started in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson’s downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to “recycle” un

Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity:

• Stemming global climate change by creating green buildings and cities.
• Eliminating weapons of mass destruction that threaten lives and the environment.
• Providing clean, safe drinking water for the 2.4 billion people who lack access to clean water.

Starbucks and Global Green USA collaborated to create the Planet Green Game to educate th

One of the items on my list of things that I am changing in my life to save the planet for my kids is selling my gas guzzling SUV and buying a hybrid.

During my research I found great this great site, greenercars.com, which helps you select a vehicle that does the least harm to the planet while meeting your transportation needs. The site also has a nice list of “The Greenest V

There is a very cool Canadian web site called Flick Off.

“Flick OFF is a movement to fight climate change by getting Canadians to use less energy. We need you! Time is short to prevent a climate crisis, but it hasn’t run out-so join the FLICK OFF movement.”

I think this is a great idea that we should be doing here in the states too, so let’s all just:

If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an compact fluorescent light bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

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Over the past year I have been evaluating my life and my impact on the environment, and I have painfully come to the conclusion that I am more apart of the problem than the solution. For example, if everyone lived like me we would need 4 and half planets. My realization that I was going the wrong direction started after the birth of my daughter Ava and the fact that the way I am living was putting her future at risk.

So I am making some change