Contact with the soil reminds us that we are an integral part of nature, rather than feeling shut out and excluded? Permaculture is a spiritual reconnection as well as an ecological strategy. –Maddy Harland, Editor of Permaculture Magazine
The word permaculture has been buzzing around for decades. But the definition is slightly elusive: what does [...]
SCRAP is an awesome organization in Portland, Oregon. The School and Community Reuse Action Project is a grassroots non-profit which collects reusable materials for school, art, and craft projects.
Community members and businesses donate all sorts of safe, reusable materials (for a tax-deductible receipt), and then SCRAP sells the materials to the public at a low [...]
They have multi-coloured clip on cases, and ring tones to suit a plethora of musical tastes. However, the latest cell phone creation from Nokia is also ‘green’ through and through!
Speaking at the annual Nokia World conference back in December 2007, Nokia president and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo made the following statement. “We are committed to [...]
Chris Anderson is a young man who started his own company making rope sandals out of nylon rope. The sandals are the most comfortable things I’ve ever worn on my feet and I get complimented on them all the time. My brother ran into Chris in 1999 in a parking lot of a Phil Lesh [...]
Walk down the aisle of your favorite health food store and what do you see? Mostly a whole lot of food packaging garbage. No matter how healthy the food is for you, most name-brand manufactured food products are packaged in a combination of plastics, metal, or cardboard packaging that at best, is recyclable.
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I have been in the construction industry in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years, and owned my own Design/Build firm for 22 of those. In my time here, I have witnessed the state of residential design in the area as it has transformed and evolved into various stages of existence, as economic [...]
As of yesterday, a new Maine state law will require retailers to collect used cell phones at no charge for recycling. Consumers will also be forbidden to throw old phones in the trash.
Cell phones contain a toxic cocktail of substances including arsenic, lead, cadmium, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and beryllium that are spewed into the [...]
Thousands flocked to the Green Festival in San Francisco this past weekend, the convention center’s billboard out front declaring: “World’s Biggest Sustainability Event!” Walking into the building, a man next to me remarked, “Well, that’s a contradiction if I ever saw one!” He was probably not the only one taking this cynical stance on [...]
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