I love waking up in the morning to find that my neighbour has left a basket of eggs on the back porch. I take great solace in knowing where my food comes from and how it is raised. We have a reciprocal exchange of food with our neighbours; they give us eggs and we...
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The Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (what a mouthful!), has recently added an Education Portal to their website, with entry points for students and teachers, though the information reached doesn’t seem to be significantly different for the two groups. Categories include Sustainable Living, Biodiversity, Marine, Heritage, Land, Water, Parks, Indigenous...
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Sustainable farming has proven to be a rewarding practice both for people and the planet. Though gender roles are deeply rooted in many communities, educating women on agricultural growth is becoming more widely accepted. The benefits of encouraging women in agriculture extend to the entire family both in terms of health and economics. At...
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Swap Shuffle Share is the brainchild of Natasha Kuperman and is all about swapping and sharing local produce. The “backyard food revolution, “, it began in Melbourne, but has now gone national. The Swap Shuffle Share website was launched on Australia Day – January 26, 2012 – and allows people to create a profile,...
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In the US, over 5,000,000 homes have been foreclosed since the bank bailout. With the housing crisis at the crux of the economic breakdown, just think how different things would look if even half those five million people had chosen to build a tiny house, ten years ago. On December 13th Tumbleweed Founder and...
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In 1987, the World Commission on the Environment highlighted the need to create sustainable products that would meet the needs of the present world “without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.. Reality check: it’s been almost twenty-five years since this discussion started. How are we doing? Is the market...
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With youth unemployment now at over one million in the UK, skills upgrades are more vital than ever. In respose to this need, Cultivate London began an urban farming project in March, in which young people aged 16-24 can learn real gardening skills. The project has both apprentices and trainees, supported by a head...
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While Seattle is working towards the use of fewer paper cups, Australia’s Northern and Capital territories will soon be using far less plastic bags. From 1 November 2011 no retailer in the ACT will be able to supply the single-use, light weight polyethylene bags that have been the standard in supermarkets for many years....
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The disposable coffee cups that fire today’s convenient coffee culture will soon find a spot in museums together with cave man paintings and dinosaur fossils if Karin de Weille has her way. De Weille started a drive in Seattle that urges people to kick their paper cup usage habit, and rely more on reusing...
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The Welsh village of Llangattock in the Brecon Beacons National Park has been named the UK’s greenest community and won $100,000, in a challenge that encourages neighbourhoods to save and generate as much energy as possible. To win the prize the community team undertook an audit of the energy efficiency of the whole community,...
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Renault, partnering with Gestamp Solar, has launched the global automotive industry’s most ambitious solar project. They are installing enough solar roof panels on their French plants to reduce CO2 emissions by 30,000 tonnes a year. The project’s power capacity will be by 60MW – enough to power a town of 15,000 for a full...
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Portfolio 21 recently released its Top 10 list of eco-friendly companies that are doing well by doing good. Each of these businesses makes a contribution to a better world, some in the form of energy-saving products and systems for manufacturers, or of time and resource preserving services and consultation, or even for services for...
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Some, but not yet all, of Green & Black’s organic chocolate bars are fairtrade certified. But they have announced that not only are they on track to met their pledge of being entirely Fairtrade by the end of 2011, and in the UK they have already achieved that goal. This includes both chocolate bars...
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There are many aspects to green living that go beyond your personal efforts. Working with, buying from, and investing in green companies can help you further your journey in sustainable living. Although many companies are compliant with laws and requirements that protect the environment and their workers, there are also many that go beyond...
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