How can localities buy and build local renewable energy generation capacity? Ken Smokoska describes the opportunities afforded by California's Community Choice law AB117. Nick Alter and Aeron Arlin Genet describe the coalition of business, environmental, university, county … [Read more...]
Go Electric: Bike Commuting Made Easy
December 30, 2006 by 2 Comments
Catch Sally Lovell's enthusiasm for her electric-assist bicycle. Her comprehensive primer covers bicycle types, battery recharging, practices and products for security, inclement weather, and road safety. Gotta love that trailer for hauling stuff! Episode 40. Watch video … [Read more...]
Permaculture for the Inner Landscape
December 28, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Facilitator and musician Melanie Rios believes life can be much richer after peak oil — with lighter living that gives back time and joy. She facilitates communication skills to help groups "work together to stay together". In performances like her "Three Little Pigs Meet … [Read more...]
A Natural Builder Creates an Ecovillage
December 21, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Tour an urban ecovillage on less than two acres only five minutes by bicycle from the center of Eugene, Oregon. Builder Robert Bolman uses natural materials like sensitively-harvested wood, earth and straw in the several beautiful, well-insulated, non-toxic structures … [Read more...]
Suburban Renewal – One Backyard at a Time
December 14, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Jan Spencer shows his quarter-acre permaculture project transforming a typical suburban lot. Lawn and driveway were replaced with fruit and nut trees, vegetables, brambles, and native habitat, plus a 3500 gallon rainwater catchment system, a sunroom heating the house, and a … [Read more...]
An Urban Developer Goes for the Green
November 30, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Inspired by the book Natural Capital, developer Joe Van Belleghem transforms a toxic site into a green development that's totally backed by the city and community in Victoria, B.C. Conserves energy, water, heat, materials, and shares some with the neighbors. Episode 36. … [Read more...]
The Vancouver Food Policy Council
November 23, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Vancouver's food charter calls for a "just and sustainable food system." Council member Spring Gillard elaborates on city-wide collaborations to improve access to groceries, waste management, institutional food purchasing, and a goal of 2010 food-producing garden plots by … [Read more...]
Vancouver’s Co-operative Auto Network
November 16, 2006 by Leave a Comment
A superb urban transport solution whose time has come. Founder Tracey Axelsson recounts the ins-and-outs of North America's oldest and largest car-sharing cooperative--membership, online scheduling, vehicle types, usage costs, preferred parking. Episode 34. … [Read more...]
MOBY – An Inner City Community Garden Project
November 9, 2006 by Leave a Comment
This Vancouver, B.C., neighborhood is building community while transforming an abandoned lot in a crack neighborhood into a flourishing community garden. Join MOBY-lizer Jason O'Brien and folks of all ages for cob clay-stomping fun accompanied by music in an inner-city urban … [Read more...]
RE Store – A Second Life for Building Materials
November 2, 2006 by 2 Comments
Tour a fascinating used building materials store with retail store manager Nate Moore and building deconstruction manager Erin Marden. It's one of many projects discussed by Robyn duPre of RE Sources for Sustainable Communities. Episode 32. [re-sources.org] Watch video … [Read more...]
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