Sami Grover
Sami Grover is a writer, and Creative Director at The Change Creation, a brand creation agency that works with entities who make the world better, fairer or truer. Clients include Larry’s Beans, Burt's Bees, Canaan Fair Trade and Jada Pinkett Smith/Overbrook Entertainment.
He writes on a broad range of topics including sustainable business, 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 once considered never procreating, he now has two kids.
He believes that adaptability is a prerequisite for sustainability.
Latest Stories from Sami Grover - Page 11
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Deconstructing Dinner: Foodie Radio Show to Hit Screens, With Your Help
In podcasts and on the radio, Deconstructing Dinner has been uncovering the flaws our food system and proposing alternatives. Now they are ready for the screen.
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The Story of Change Explores Why Shopping Cannot Save Us
We will never change the world by focusing on individual lifestyle choices. Annie Leonard's new video looks at how real change happens.
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Safe Composting Tips for People With Food Allergies
Composting is safe for people with food allergies, as long as they take some basic precautions. Here are some tips from allergy experts.
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Tiny Apartment Hides Bathtub in a Drawer
This architect's 258 square foot home uses some clever tricks, and a careful understanding of the owner's needs, to enable living large in a small space.
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How Car Sharing is Taking Over Berlin
Robert Llewellyn explores Berlin's high tech systems for car sharing in an urban environment. He thinks he may have seen the future of mobility.
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Mobile Game Encourages Real-World Sharing
The sharing economy is built on reputation. So is online social gaming. Now the two are coming together.
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How to Build a DIY Solar Air Heater from Old Soda Cans
A Seattle man builds a DIY solar space heater for his off grid office. Here's how.
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The Worm Bin Reinvented for the Squeamish
A new worm bin design offers all the benefits of vermicomposting, with less of the contact with poop (or worms).
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Tiny Off-Grid Float Cabin Becomes Dream Retirement Home
For one couple, retirement means living way off-the-grid in a water-access-only floating cabin in the wilds of British Columbia.
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Hybrid Solar Electric/Solar Thermal Panels Could Make Rooftop Solar Mainstream
An MTU professor claims that new advances in hybrid solar collectors could mean every roof will be solar within 20 years.
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Is Peak Oil Really a Thing of the Past?
George Monbiot claims that peak oil is no longer a major concern. Is he right?
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Solar Breweries Come to Michigan
An Ann Arbor brewery has just completed a $350,000 overhaul of its facilities, all in the name of greener beer.
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Bird Charity to Build Gigantic Wind Turbine
If some opponents of wind power are to be believed, turbines are mass killers of birdlife. Someone should inform the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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How Does a "Generation of Renters" Save Energy?
As more and more people give up on the idea of home ownership, what does that mean for energy efficiency in buildings?
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The Lightning GT: Another Electric Supercar
At a top speed of 125mph, and 0-60moh in under five seconds, the Lightning GT is a car-lovers electric car. But it comes with a hefty price tag.
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How The Grassroots Rocket Stove Movement Continues to Push Efficient Cooking
Big bucks are pouring in to high-tech, mass produced cook stoves for the developing world. But grassroots activists insist that a lower tech, open source model is still relevant.
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Social-Media Enabled Aquaponics in West Oakland
A small start-up in West Oakland is farming fish and veggies, and using the internet and social networking to do it.
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Is Becoming a US Citizen the Greenest Thing I Will Ever Do?
Americans aren't known for their low carbon footprint. But by becoming an American citizen, I will be helping protect the environment. Here's why.
