A Cooperative Program Between Midwest Permaculture and Center for Sustainable Community

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Here’s an argument, adapted from "Life Rules," that Transitioners—whom I call “the already-converted”—can use to convince or at least challenge the assumptions of the as-yet-unconverted, those true believers in the possibility of doing business-as-usual against the odds of finiteness into the next century or millennium:



Global economic theory tends to rely on one particularly counterintuitive notion: that huge transnational corporations and organizations are not vulnerable to the… Continue

I venture to say that few Americans have ever seen a Black Swan (Cygnus astratus) and more than a few might assert that, given their inexperience, there is no such thing.

With the publication of Nassim Taleb's classic book of the same name the metaphor has jumped into our common language. (www.fooledbyrandomness.com) As a metaphor its greatest contribution outside of economics may be to the environmental and…

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A few days ago I went to Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia to experience the latest Delaware Valley Green Building Council's presentation on the latest green building standards. The presenter, Laura Blau, called it Apples to Apples and did a quick comparison of three of the best of the high-performance building standards now on the market. They were the USGBC's LEED standards[1]  They were compared to Passive House[2], and the very stringent Living Building Challenge[3].

 

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In the latest in a series of efforts to make the French

capital green, the city of Paris is now offering residents free

sparkling water to try limit over consumption of plastic bottles.(I)

“We chill the water between 6 and 8 degrees Celsius (42.8 to 46.4 degrees Fahrenheit),” said Philippe…

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personal responsibility, war and the environment:

Neil Young's Greendale is a Graphic Novel?

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Currently posted on Ryerson university, Toronto, web news site (1) , is a report by researcher Julia Lu which raises questions of great importance in regards to human health.

The report describes how Dr. Lu and her research team placed specialized air monitoring equipment on top of a three-storied building on Ryerson’s campus in downtown Toronto.......read more http://arch1design.com/blog/?p=2056

When radioactive waste mixes with water, it is ferried through this water cycle. Radionuclides in water are absorbed by surrounding vegetation and ingested by local marine and animal life.....more info

http://arch1design.com/blog/?p=2488