Tag: Communities
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10 Online Gardening Communities You Should Join
Have a gardening question, but no friends who garden? The Internet is filled with forums for every gardening topic imaginable that you can turn to when looking advice.
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Indoor Sculpture Garden Planted in Empty Downtown Chicago Storefront
Empty storefront transformed into indoor sculpture garden in Chicago.
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Happy 3rd Anniversary David Brower Center! How a Building Can Build Community
The David Brower Center Serves As A Model For How A Building Can Be an Epicenter of Education and Activism for A Community
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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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5 Creative Ways to Connect Our Kids (And Yourself) to Nature
The author of The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods offers ways you can incorporate healthy outdoor time into a child's daily routine.
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When Neighbors Meet to Compare Energy Bills, Much Bigger Ideas Are Born
A neighborhood carbon coaching initiative in Britain is spawning all kinds of wonderful community collaborations.
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Best of Green: Business
From best community advocate to best business protest, watchdog, non-profit, and more, the results are in for our 2012 Best of Green Awards in Business.
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Tiny, Hyper-Local Community Libraries Popping Up Worldwide (Video)
In the spirit of collaborative consumption and building tiny, this literacy project aims to build little lending nooks all over the world.
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The Demand for Cheap Energy is Entitlement Culture Gone Mad
The constant demands for cheap oil and fossil fuels is a sign that we've become spoiled as a culture. It's time we grew up and took some responsibility.
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Sustainability Lessons from the Great Depression
A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.
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Your Empty Garage Can Earn You Money
A new site connects those needing storage with those with spare space. Could this be the next big Collaborative Consumption success story?
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How Art and Gardening Bring Cultures and Generations Together
In London and rural Devon, a multi-generational garden and art project shows how environmentalism can and must embrace diversity.
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Neighbors Build 100% Reclaimed Shed, Stash Reusable Plates for Each Others' Parties
A neighborhood partyware lending library is housed in a unique, completely reclaimed shed built from shipping pallets.
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In Push for Smart Grid, a New Silicon Valley Emerges in North Carolina
Observers have long hyped the role that internet pioneers will play in revamping our electric grid. But Silicon Valley is not the only place to watch.
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Business
Who's the best green business ambassador, twitterer, community advocate? What's the best business Facebook page? Vote on these and more.
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DC Considers Community "Solar Gardens" and Shared Solar Arrays
Live in a condo but want to go solar? New legislation in DC aims to make sharing solar arrays a real possibility.
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Do We Value Free Stuff Less? The Downside of Freecycle
Giving stuff away for free is getting popular, but some people are never satisfied.
