Sami Grover
Sami Grover is an environmental activist and co-creative director at The Change Creation, a creative team offering brand strategy and design for good-for-the-world businesses and non-profits. Clients include Larry’s Beans, Canaan Fair Trade and Self-Help.
He writes on a broad range of topics including permaculture, sustainable food systems, the collaborative economy and clean energy. He also has an unhealthy obsession with human waste and what we should do with it.
He once vowed never to fly again, then he fell in love with someone on the other side of the Atlantic. He believes that adaptability is a prerequisite for sustainability.
Latest Stories from Sami Grover
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Could "Gatorponics" Revive Defunct Chicken Farms?
Could a combination of alligator farming and hydroponics be the savior of former chicken farmers, or is it a dangerous and cruel distraction?
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Tiny, Rundown Attic Space Becomes Stunning Rooftop Apartment
This Barcelona apartment shows that a little vision can create luxury in the unlikeliest of spaces.
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Gaia Soda: An Ethical Alternative to Soda Stream Home Carbonation?
A new start-up is accusing the big home soda machine manufacturers of ripping off consumers and selling unhealthy products.
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How ETSY Is Changing the Way We All Do Business
The online craft market place becomes a certified B Corp, and announces $40m in new funding. This could be a great thing for all of us.
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Organic Beekeeping for Beginners: Which Hive is Best?
An introduction to organic beekeeping, including a demonstration of a rather unusual hive.
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How the Energy Grid Actually Works
Renewables advocate Robert Llewellyn visits the National Grid control center to ask some tough questions.
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Top Airline Executive Creates Tiny, "Treehouse" Home
A leading airline executive builds a tiny, rustic retreat with no electricity or running water.
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Cooperative Urban Farming in Kentucky, Inspired By Latin America
The cooperative tradition dates back centuries in many Latin American countries. Now migrants are applying its principles to urban farming in the United States.
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Seventies Back-to-the-Land Pioneer Explores the Tiny House Movement
A former shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog discusses the new wave of the tiny house movement.
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How Solar is Giving African Kids Super Powers
Cheap LED lanterns are transforming lives in Africa, allowing communities to leapfrog 20th Century technology and enter the solar age.
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Solar Sales Drop 90% After UK Subsidies Slashed
When it comes to Government support for renewables, "how dependable" is at least as important a question as "how much".
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Fertile Soils Need Animal Agriculture: Joel Salatin on Integrated Farming
One of America's best-known sustainable farmers makes the case for enlightened animal agriculture.
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A Refugee Farmer Brings Goat Meat to Kentucky
A Burundian native is pioneering urban goat farming in Louisville. Will it catch on among the locals?
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells 101 With Robert Llewellyn
The vocal comedy legend and electric car advocate explores the pros and cons of the hydrogen fuel cell.
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Is Collaborative Consumption a Movement or a Business Model?
The sharing economy is built more on convenience and the desire to save money than a mission to save the world. But does that matter?
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How to Solarize Your Street: Starting a Solar Coop
Going solar on your own home is cool. But what if you could persuade all your neighbors to do it too?
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No Money? Time Trading Offers an Accessible Alternative
With time trading, people offer services based on an exchange of hours - not money. But it's still economic activity.
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The Tiny House Movement Gets Its Own Documentary
A chance encounter with the Tiny House movement led one film maker to spend years in this "alternate universe". Now, she is telling her story.
