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It’s been seven glorious days since we threw open the doors to the reloaded celsias.co.nz. We’ve had a nice refreshing row about the ETS in which our publisher had his hair insulted, we uploaded a dirty movie and the world’s most sustainable loo paper. Make ... keep reading
Written by Andy Kenworthy in May 2010, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Celebrities, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Computing, Consumerism, Deforestation, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, ETS, Events, Finance & Money, Food, Genetic Modification, Global Dimming, Green energy, Health, Industry & Business, Law, Lifestyle & Behavior, Logging, marketing, Media, Nuclear, Organic, Permaculture, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Smart Growth, Solar, Transition Towns, Transport, Travel, War, Water, Weather (1 comment)
Time was when the only reward you were likely to receive for recycling was a warm glow of pride at doing your bit for the environment - but all that may have changed if you happen to live in Maidenhead in England.The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead is running a ... keep reading
Written by Environmental Choice in July 2009, about Climate Change, Consumerism, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Pollution, Population, Recycling, Smart Growth, Transition Towns (1 comment)
Our understanding of the world is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves. The dominant story of our culture, says Shaun Chamberlin, is that of progress: we're led to believe "that we currently live in one of the most advanced civilisations that the world has ever known, and that ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in May 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Transition Towns
My aunt has been growing food and feeding the family for decades and my grandmother's garden was entirely given over to food crops. As a child we had token ‘hobby gardens' and as adults, we do not own our home, so we do not have a vegetable garden, as ... keep reading
Written by Christina Newnham in May 2009, about Agriculture & Food, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Children and Families, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Finance & Money, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Organic, Permaculture, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development, Transition Towns (1 comment)
Economist Jeremy Rifkin has proposed a pan-European strategy of small-scale energy generation and smart energy grids that would see every citizen a partner in power generation - and create millions of jobs and foster investment. Rifkin's plan, backed by a 100-member roundtable of industry leaders including big names like IBM ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in May 2009, about Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Smart Growth, Solar, Transition Towns
Two months ago St Albans joined the dozens of communities around the world who have taken on the challenge of the Transition Movement, a grassroots response to climate change and peak oil. Jeremy Williams has been writing an insider's perspective (here's part one if you missed it!) on ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in May 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Lifestyle & Behavior, Transition Towns
As the Transition Towns movement reaches his hometown, Jeremy Williams reports on the beginnings of Transition St Albans. It's 8pm on a Wednesday night. It's raining and I'm trying to locate a slightly obscure Quaker meeting house round the corner from the station in St Albans, the ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in April 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Transition Towns (1 comment)
‘The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience‘ is the guidebook to the Transition Towns movement. It explains the problems of peak oil and climate change, re-localization and resilience as responses that will transition us to a post-carbon future, and how you can set up your own transition initiative ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in March 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Transition Towns
If we've learned anything from the current economic crisis, it's that modern finance is complicated. Even the banks don't seem to understand the monsters they have created. It's a little ironic, because money itself is actually a very simple thing. At its most basic level, money ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in February 2009, about Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Economics, Finance & Money, Lifestyle & Behavior, Poverty & Development, Transition Towns (1 comment)
Over the last few years a new expression has been slowly weaving its way into the consciousness of the UK population, and the larger world community. It crops up in local politics, in the board meetings of small businesses, in community centres and schools. It features in local newspapers and ... keep reading
Written by Jeremy Williams in January 2009, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Politics & Government, Population, Transition Towns, Transport
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For every new car sold, Honda funds the planting of ten native trees. In 2004, Honda New Zealand initiated the ... more »
