February 2012
330 posts
“Fashion objects are not capable of being long-lived. We simply cannot afford...”
– Dieter Rams (via mslina)
The Harbinger: Hope for a Sustainable Future →
theharbingerum:
It is not a coincidence that we live in a time of both increasing environmental and economic instability. The same systemic greed that produced the financial disaster created two powerful industries, the fossil fuel industry and industrial agriculture, which are wrecking our planet as well as…
Thought At Work: The Plant: My new non-profit... →
katyuno:
My new nonprofit crush: http://www.plantchicago.com/
Here’s the basic gist, straight from The Plant’s website:
“Plant Chicago is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting sustainable food production, entrepreneurship, and building reuse through education, research and development. To this end,…
Free sustainable materials book. Click here to... →
Philips Home Farming
inovelab:
Home Farming explores growing at least part of your daily calorific requirement inside your house. This biosphere home farm has been designed to occupy a minimum of floor space and instead to stack the various mini-ecosystems on top of each other. It contains fish, crustaceans, algae and edible plants, all interdependent and in balance with each other. Water filtration, recycling of...
Carpentry & Closed Cycle Design: Life-Cycle... →
c3design:
My undergraduate degree is in sustainability, and I would like to share the most valuable concept I learned through my years of studying. It is a tool actually, and its called a Life-Cycle Assessment or LCA for short. It’s a simple tool on the surface; you track the costs and impacts associated…
Retrofitting the suburbs for sustainability
wyld-magik:
Retrofitting the suburbs for sustainability
by David Holmgren
David Holmgren, co-originator with Bill Mollison of the Permaculture concept, is an innovative environmental design consultant based at Hepburn Springs in central Victoria, where he maintains one of Australia’s best-known permaculture demonstration sites. David has written several books, conducted numerous workshops and...
“Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong — it...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
Osho, always so soothing for the soul.
(via dreams-from-my-father)
TFI Daily News: The Number One Catastrophic Event... →
newstfionline:
By Economic Collapse Blog, January 2, 2012 Can you guess what the number one catastrophic event that Americans worry about is? There are certainly many to choose from, but the number one catastrophic event that Americans worry about is actually “economic collapse”. At least that is what a recent…
