Here's the latest from L.A. Eco-village. If anyone can get to L.A. I'm sure it would be worth the trip. These people have been at it a long time and much can...
Thanks, Modest Rabble Rouser, for pointing out Tucson's considerable sustainability history! We estimate at least 10% of Tucson's population of one million...
I wrote the following as my fourth column for Organic Press, a Pacific Northwest community and sustainability monthly, just before we left Bellingham for...
... The Hometown Advantage: reviving locally owned businesses. http://www.newrules.org/retail/vacantbox.html snip: Preventing Vacant Boxes The United States is...
Hi, Thanks, Dave. I am most particularly interested in the Post-Carbon Institute, their Relocalization Network is looking for someone to be the contact for...
Sonora Co-housing was mentioned as a location for a September Sustainable Tucson potluck. Does a person associated with Sonora Co-housing wish to schedule and...
Michael Pollan Every five years or so the President of the United States signs an obscure piece of legislation that determines what happens on a couple of...
Hi, The Social Ventures Network Conference will be in Tucson October 12-15. Its an expensive event to attend, but should be bringing an interesting group of...
A growing factor for social change around the world is the soap opera or telenovela. Soap operas for social change feature engaging characters who fall in...
I know someone who is putting together a grant proposal to train residents of brownfield areas in Tucson to do brownfield cleanup/mitigation, thereby creating...
Dear Ecozoners, By popular request, below you will find URL's for two articles, one from the New Yorker, the other from Yes! magazine, about how soap operas...
At one of our potlucks, there was a comment that even if everyone did these top ten things, it wouldn't be enough. We appreciate the refined quantitative...
In Japan, Even Children Love The Vegetables CHRISTOPHER WANJEK - LiveScience FUKUOKA, Japan-Once outside of Tokyo, a raucous anomaly within Japan, one quickly...
Just to reminder everyone, the first meeting of the Sustainable Tucson Local Enterprise Development Group will be held tonight, Wednesday, September 6 at the...
... The Top Ten Things are indeed all things we should start doing, but we live within a system, and if we don't put any effort into systemic changes, they ...
"Here and Now" on KUAZ had an extensive segment Monday about "Buying Locally" -- would be relevant to the focus of this meeting. If you missed it, it's...
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... Please share with others who might be interested. The problems of the environment are well known. What's not commonly known is that new kinds of design and...
Hi all, May I add another to the top ten, I guess making it a top eleven. It is something I never hear mentioned; Don't have children. If you haven't had ...
Kathy McMahon writes eloquently of her emotional reactions, as a middle class American, to peak oil. There appear to be two kinds of peak oil: (1) the...
We had a productive first meeting discussing what a sustainable local economy would look like. There is still much more to debate. We will spend some time...
This show has some interesting facts. The link to the audio download is here: http://www.here-now.org/shows/2006/09/20060904_5.asp The BALLE site is here: ...
In response to this thoughtful and important posting: Please - read Thom Hartmann's amazing book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight..." which goes into...
Kathy Jacobs and AWI are an important part of the group which brought Dr. Jackie King to Tucson. Highly recommended, sound information, topic of great...
I'm not going to do a full top ten because most of my top ten have been covered. Three additional one are as follows: 1) End all factory farming of live...
Central Issues: Population Control & Creating a Sustainable Community The problem with peak oil is not gas guzzling SUVs, diesels or two stroke engines...
... on a few of this weeks postings. Lately it seems as if my lot in life is to ask uncomfortable questions of people of good conscience who are trying their...
Dear All - Responding to Dave's passionate note about water (and other subjects), permit me - I'm unaccustomed to writing to groups! - to share two items. ...
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Hi, I haven't had time to go through it in detail, but I hope some plan is better than none. The Arizona Climate Change Advisory documents are now available...