When you go to the "dump" on Orcas Island, you get a bonus. Along with dropping off your recyclables and trash, you can leave your re-usables and pick up what you need at The Exchange. This thrift + building materials + appliance + home furnishings + sporting goods store … [Read more...]
Sustainable Vashon – A Learning and Action Network
May 30, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Three women envisioning a sustainable island share their activities: Sustainable Vashon's Merrilee Runyan describes "Edible Island" and "Green Seed grants." Farmer Lisa Mathias of Vashon Island Growers Association envisions more neighborhood food production. Hillery Crocker … [Read more...]
Sustainable Ballard: A Blueprint for EveryTown USA
April 2, 2007 by Leave a Comment
David Wright, Vic Opperman and Andrea Faste are "making ripples around Puget Sound" by empowering folks in their northwest Seattle community of 70,000 around "the one issue that unites us" — energy. Sustainable Ballard volunteers educate, facilitate, and collaborate … [Read more...]
Community Responses to Peak Oil
March 23, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Peak oil educator and author Richard Heinberg discusses what communities can do to prepare for peak oil. He covers transportation, including a novel ride-sharing scheme, assessing municipal vulnerabilities, local food and energy production, as well as the Hirsch report's … [Read more...]
A Defining Moment in History
February 22, 2007 by 2 Comments
The planet is quickly confronting us with limits to the exploitative, dominator system of the past 5000 years. David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, and more recently The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, implores us to replace … [Read more...]
Yes! Building a Just, Sustainable, and Compassionate World
January 11, 2007 by 1 Comment
Yes! magazine counters mainstream media by giving us stories of people creating sustainable, just and positive futures. Executive Editor Sarah Van Gelder discusses healthcare for all, alternatives to prisons, peak oil, living democracy, climate change, working together, and … [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...]
The Portland Peak Oil Task Force
October 26, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Propelled by passage of the Portland Peak Oil Resolution in May 2006, a citizen's task force is developing recommendations for the city. With Brendan Finn, chief of staff to Commissioner of Public Affairs, and task force member Randy White. Their recommendations summary and … [Read more...]
Cooperative Living, Cooperative Driving (30)
October 19, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Long involved with intentional communities, Tree Bressen discusses a shared-ownership cooperative household with ten residents, as well as a small, one-car car sharing cooperative. Carshare info and scheduling software is at at biocarshare.org. Watch video | iTunes | … [Read more...]
101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
September 21, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Author Guy Dauncey’s lively, optimistic solutions for peak oil and climate crisis are do-able here and now. Conservation, efficiency, proven technologies, and emerging innovations will take us through this critical planetary energy transition. Episode 26. … [Read more...]
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