Category Archives: Sustainable living
Peak (Cheap) Oil: How It Will Change Your Life (Micro-Doc)
How To Get Through 1 Year of Tough Times
How To Get Through 1 Year of Tough Times November 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm (PT) The scenario: You want to get a few ideas of how you would handle ‘tough times’ for a year, if it were upon you. What should you do now, while things are relatively good, to prepare for tough times? First, [...]
Bamboo: Good or Bad for the Environment
Bamboo: Good or Bad for the Environment BY CHRIS KEENAN These days everyone is talking about bamboo. From walls to flooring, bamboo is regaled as the environmental answer to wood. Bamboo flooring is commonplace from showrooms to homes, and the building community expects that it will be used in plywood next. Just think, tomorrow your garage doors could be [...]
Getting Ready For ‘Peak Oil
Getting Ready For ‘Peak Oil’ While researching his 2004 book, “The End of Oil” author Paul Roberts was allowed to see the Shayba oil field in Saudi Arabia’s “empty quarter.” Full of pride, Robert’s Saudi engineer hosts boasted about the remarkable infrastructure built over the Shayba, rattling off a list of impressive production statistics. Saudi [...]
Geothermal Energy Could Power Entire U.S. (Maybe)
Google is dipping its toes in renewable energy – according to Science Daily, it provided a grant to SMU Geothermal Laboratory which indicates a pretty hefty amount of geothermal power lurking across the United States. The total amount of available power is claimed to be more than three million megawatts (current coal power plants produce 300,000 megawatts, [...]
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Hydrogen Combustion – Watch a funny movie here
An Amazing Year-Round Food Growing System (Video)
by Survival Joe | Friday, September 2, 2011 In Food, Videos They are able to grow food year-round by combining the following farming concepts and systems:Here’s a quick 3-minute video about a non-profit organization that grows food year-round in Wisconsin. Greenhouse Growing vertical Vermiculture + compost piles (for heat) Aquaponics (growing plants in water and using fish to provide [...]
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: HOW THE GREEN TREND HAS AFFECTED PRODUCT DESIGN
It’s difficult to determine when the green trend started – whether it was back in the 90s when we all decided to save the whales and ban aerosol sprays or whether it was much recently when Al Gore won an Oscar and Nobel Prize for his travelling PowerPoint-documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” But, no matter when [...]
Global Buckets Videos
Global Buckets
Is it possible two cheap plastic buckets can help reduce global malnutrition? Sounds crazy, but there’s some amazing technology that can be created by combining two cheap 5-gallon buckets along with some other low cost or free materials. The result is a low cost foolproof system of growing food. Benefits of the 2-bucket system: 1) [...]
