http://www.earth-conservation.org Solutions for living in harmony with nature http://www.protectyourvote.info/ http://www.protectyourvote.info/ Learn what you can do to protect your vote. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:45:00 GMT http://www.ifg.org/programs/Energy/triple_crisis_av/index.htm http://www.ifg.org/programs/Energy/triple_crisis_av/index.htm IFG Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis" "Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion and Extinction" September 14th-16th, 2007, Washington, DC Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:55:00 GMT http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid231.php http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid231.php A series of lectures on energy efficiency. Topics inlcude: buildings, industry, transportation, implementation and implications. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:15:00 GMT http://www.earth-conservation.org/multimedia.php http://www.earth-conservation.org/multimedia.php Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. By 24 she was a boat captain. In 1989, while running her brother's fish house at the docks and mending nets, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays and thus began her life as an environmental activist. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Diane insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay. >> Posted in development issues. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:19:00 GMT http://www.storyofstuff.com/ http://www.storyofstuff.com/ From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. Sun, 25 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/books/volume2/ Just released! Building on the information presented in Volume 1, this book shows you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen water-harvesting earthworks. It presents detailed how-to information and variations of a diverse array of earthworks, including chapters on mulch, vegetation, and greywater recycling so you can customize the techniques to the unique requirements of your site. Tue, 20 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.aqsolutions.org/?page_id=5 In February of 2008 Aqueous Solutions and Pun Pun Organic Farm set out to build a water treatment system that would allow residents to consume water pumped from a storage pond located in the valley next to their rice fields. The water in the pond comes in part form natural filtration of surface and ground water and in part from an irrigation canal supplied with water from a nearby reservoir. Learn more... Tue, 20 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT