sustainABILITY
Educating the world, one poorly sustainable design aspect at a time.
Sustainability: capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage.
eatkamloops.org
Reblogged from kamloopsbumbling
Here is a quote from this fascinating and comprehensive Kamloops-related website:
eatkamloops.org is a group committed to helping our community:
- discover local, healthy food sources
- learn about traditional foods and food preparation
- encourage the cultivation of heirloom seeds and
heritage breeds- become aware of regional and national food security issues
- lobby for freedom in food preparation and commerce
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Reblogged from nicolefaires
Reclaim the Fields is a constellation of young people and collective projects willing to go back to the land and reassume the control over food production.
We are determined to create alternatives to capitalism through cooperative, collective, autonomous, real needs oriented small scale production and initiatives, putting theory into practice and linking local practical action with global political struggles.
They have a lot of information on their website, and for a little history you can see this article here. It is a movement of young people in Europe who are demanding the right to access to land for farming. I think it’s about time something like that happened over here…
Plastic Bottle Greenhouse
Reblogged from afreckledgnu
This is a greenhouse made from 2 liter soda bottles. Hopefully I will be able to set one (or many) of these up for my veggies. I don’t drink soda so I will have to search for litter and not recycled plastic bottles. Imagine if every home and apartment building had one!
I am obviously infatuated.
Better Worlds: HP expanding carbon footprint and energy usage monitoring
Reblogged from betterworlds
HP is expanding its services related to datacenters to include more sustainability and cost-minded data, according to Computer World:
HP’s Energy and Sustainability Management (ESM) program will include services to monitor and report energy usage and carbon emissions in buildings, data…
The Expanders: Nuclear Waste
Reblogged from thexpanders
The social costs of current nuclear power use are not taken into effect when the public is told that this source of energy is a cheaper and cleaner alternative to fossil fuel dependency. Basically, nuclear power is generated by induced fission of Uranium-235 (READ THIS ARTICLE TO LEARN…
