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Next Tuesday November 18th, The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, Melnitz Movies, International Documentary Association and the UCLA Institute of the Environment will screen No Impact Man.
No Impact Man
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
November 17th, 7:30 PM
Free, Parking $10 in Lot 3
Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind…
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Using Google Earth to Police the Amazon
Almir Surui, the chief of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest, has—you guessed it—teamed up with Google. He’s using Google Earth to document and map illegal deforestation in real time, making it a lot harder for the government to ignore.
Recently, it seems like the “environmental movement,” or whatever you want to call it, has focused more on carbon and clean energy technology than good old Save-the-whales-style conservation. But we should still save the…
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What a Green Job Looks Like
Buildings are actually responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars. But simply weatherizing houses and businesses can reduce their environmental impact and lower energy bills—while creating new jobs in the process. Everyone wins.
Created in partnership with Green for All, a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy, strong enough to lift people out of poverty. For more information on programs near you, visit www.greenforall.org.
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Meet the Artisans of El Salvador
People of Hope Crafts’ coordinator travels to El Salvador every year to work with our artisan groups on product development. This is a brief description of part of her visit last January, when she traveled to Guarjila.
There I was, sitting on the plane anticipating yet another exciting visit with the artisans! The sunset from the window was just amazing. What a way to start yet another exciting journey!
I was looking forward to spending one-on-one time…
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Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
…Read & Discuss
VIDEO: Sustainability in Ghana featuring Tinny
I was at a design and sustainability type conference/workshop this weekend and Adam Werbach from SaatchiS shared this in his presentation: its a Cadbury commercial airing in Ghana—-bascially, their take on talking about fair trade is celebrating the awesome Ghanain culture it supports. This is “cultural sustainability” and it’s pretty awesome.
Original article: YouTube – Cadburys – Zingolo ft. Tinny
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The GOOD 100: Fritz Haeg
Lawn Mower
Fritz Haeg knows a thing or two about fecundity. It’s not just that the artist has been impressively prolific in a variety of aesthetic fields over the last few years (though he certainly has); it’s that, at least in the most celebrated examples of his artwork, reimaginings of nature and new life could be said to be his guiding principle.
Beginning in 2005, he declared war on the grass lawns of suburban homes, overhauling those…
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Square Feat: Sustainable Shoes
While we’re on the subject of affordable housing, let’s talk about sustainable design, for the two walk hand in hand. But first, let’s talk about American cheese.
Most would agree that American cheese, like toothpaste or tennis balls, is an affordable commodity. When we talk about affordable American cheese slices, we are talking about the relatively small amount of dollars required to acquire them at the American cheese store. The same holds true at the tennis ball…
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What is Greengaged?
Filmed during the inaugural year during London Design Festival 2008, and featuring the voices of co-founders Sophie Thomas, Sarah Johnson and Anne Chick, and the UK Design Council’s Chief Executive David Kester, here’s a short film about Greengaged – the sustainable design hub. …
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Singapore’s Supertreed Pleasure Dome
Singapore, for sustainability concerned urbanites (read: sustainites), has always been a Xanadu (all bubble gum-related, bamboo flogging aside) . Its 3-Dimensional garden city layout and decades long commitment to greening their city-state has been a model for other urban cores around the world. It has now undertaken Gardens by the Bay an internationally significant, orchid-inspired, pleasure dome that is not only a marina complex, and business and cultural venue but a model of highly technical integrated ecological…
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No Impact Man at UCLA November 17th
Next Tuesday November 18th, The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, Melnitz Movies, International Documentary Association and the UCLA Institute of the Environment will screen No Impact Man.
No Impact Man
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
November 17th, 7:30 PM
Free, Parking $10 in Lot 3
Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind…
Read & Discuss
Using Google Earth to Police the Amazon
Almir Surui, the chief of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest, has—you guessed it—teamed up with Google. He’s using Google Earth to document and map illegal deforestation in real time, making it a lot harder for the government to ignore.
Recently, it seems like the “environmental movement,” or whatever you want to call it, has focused more on carbon and clean energy technology than good old Save-the-whales-style conservation. But we should still save the…
Read & Discuss
What a Green Job Looks Like
Buildings are actually responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars. But simply weatherizing houses and businesses can reduce their environmental impact and lower energy bills—while creating new jobs in the process. Everyone wins.
Created in partnership with Green for All, a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy, strong enough to lift people out of poverty. For more information on programs near you, visit www.greenforall.org.
…Read & Discuss
Meet the Artisans of El Salvador
People of Hope Crafts’ coordinator travels to El Salvador every year to work with our artisan groups on product development. This is a brief description of part of her visit last January, when she traveled to Guarjila.
There I was, sitting on the plane anticipating yet another exciting visit with the artisans! The sunset from the window was just amazing. What a way to start yet another exciting journey!
I was looking forward to spending one-on-one time…
Read & Discuss
Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
…Read & Discuss
VIDEO: Sustainability in Ghana featuring Tinny
I was at a design and sustainability type conference/workshop this weekend and Adam Werbach from SaatchiS shared this in his presentation: its a Cadbury commercial airing in Ghana—-bascially, their take on talking about fair trade is celebrating the awesome Ghanain culture it supports. This is “cultural sustainability” and it’s pretty awesome.
Original article: YouTube – Cadburys – Zingolo ft. Tinny
…Read & Discuss
Square Feat: Sustainable Shoes
While we’re on the subject of affordable housing, let’s talk about sustainable design, for the two walk hand in hand. But first, let’s talk about American cheese.
Most would agree that American cheese, like toothpaste or tennis balls, is an affordable commodity. When we talk about affordable American cheese slices, we are talking about the relatively small amount of dollars required to acquire them at the American cheese store. The same holds true at the tennis ball…
Read & Discuss
What is Greengaged?
Filmed during the inaugural year during London Design Festival 2008, and featuring the voices of co-founders Sophie Thomas, Sarah Johnson and Anne Chick, and the UK Design Council’s Chief Executive David Kester, here’s a short film about Greengaged – the sustainable design hub. …
Read & Discuss
Singapore’s Supertreed Pleasure Dome
Singapore, for sustainability concerned urbanites (read: sustainites), has always been a Xanadu (all bubble gum-related, bamboo flogging aside) . Its 3-Dimensional garden city layout and decades long commitment to greening their city-state has been a model for other urban cores around the world. It has now undertaken Gardens by the Bay an internationally significant, orchid-inspired, pleasure dome that is not only a marina complex, and business and cultural venue but a model of highly technical integrated ecological…
Read & Discuss
If Tokyo Gets the Olympics, They’ll Build This Thing
Who cares what Obama and Oprah think? If Tokyo gets the 2016 Olympic games, they’ll build this stadium powered entirely by the sun. In fact, Tokyo’s whole bid is geared around creating an efficient, low-impact (in the environmental sense) event. From Inhabitat:
On top of the solar stadium, Tokyo will work to reuse current facilities and rework them, rather than building brand new facilities which requires the use of virgin resources and more energy during construction.…
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Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
…Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: Fritz Haeg
Lawn Mower
Fritz Haeg knows a thing or two about fecundity. It’s not just that the artist has been impressively prolific in a variety of aesthetic fields over the last few years (though he certainly has); it’s that, at least in the most celebrated examples of his artwork, reimaginings of nature and new life could be said to be his guiding principle.
Beginning in 2005, he declared war on the grass lawns of suburban homes, overhauling those…
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The GOOD 100: Ending LEED’s Monopoly
Follow or Get out of the Way: The household name in green construction needs to innovate in order to keep up with the competition.
Imagine if teachers gave out grades on the first day of school based on students’ promises of how hard they each plan to study. Oddly, we use this backward system to grade green buildings in the United States.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the certification system created by the U.S.…
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The GOOD 100: Eco-patent Commons
Open-source sustainability: How sharing inventions can save the environment.
In the 20th century, the titans of global business were better known for their acumen than for their generosity. Indeed, the phrases we’ve associated with business—“cutthroat,” “dog-eat-dog”—simply don’t mesh with, say, a Creative Commons approach to sharing. But if the past decade has taught us anything about the business of technology, it’s that the open-source movement keeps delivering—Linux, Wikipedia, Mozilla; the list goes on. And if we’re going…
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The GOOD 100: Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Push
The Big Blue-green Monster: Wal-Mart is pushing us toward sustainability more than you could ever imagine.
In 2005, Wal-Mart was a piñata that liberal critics loved to bash, owing to a litany of sins ranging from low wages to union busting to encouraging sprawl. So when Lee Scott, the CEO at the time, bounded onto the stage at Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, and announced that energy-efficiency would be “at the heart of the company,” it seemed…
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What a Green Job Looks Like
Buildings are actually responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars. But simply weatherizing houses and businesses can reduce their environmental impact and lower energy bills—while creating new jobs in the process. Everyone wins.
Created in partnership with Green for All, a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy, strong enough to lift people out of poverty. For more information on programs near you, visit www.greenforall.org.
…Read & Discuss
Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
…Read & Discuss
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