Tag: Communities - Page 10
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Should the Internet be Protected from Astroturfing and How?
Accusations of "astroturfing"—or the creation of fake grassroots movements to protect powerful interests—are hardly new. When I wrote about the topic of astroturfing on the
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Can a Whole City Go Zero Waste?
We've already seen how pay-as-you-throw trash metering can cut landfill waste in half, and we've witnessed whole cities make composting mandatory. So there's little doubt that much, much
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20 Families Uprooted from Suburbia for Inner-City Urban Farming (Video)
We've seen inspiring footage of urban farming in Detroit helping families survive, not to mention Growing Power's awesome urban aquaponics and vermiculture project. I've just come across another crew of crazy
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Rooftop Supermarket Garden Provides Produce to Shoppers Below (Video)
Adam Stein once famously derided high-tech vertical farms as pie in the sky, but I've always liked the idea of growing high value produce on the roofs of stores that sell it. After all, who needs to ship those teeny tiny
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Wolves, Elk and Native Americans Once Owned New York (Video)
We talk a lot about the low-carbon lifestyles of city dwellers and the future of megacities in a warming world, but whatever our view of urbanization, it is all too easy to think of cities as entirely a modern, man-made
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Getting Local Government to Tackle Peak Oil
Yesterday I talked about the role of green groups in a shrinking state, noting how the activist mantra of "act local" could be used by some as an excuse to pass responsibilities from local government to community groups like members of the Transition
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Squatting and Activism Meets Community Development (Video)
The third runway at Heathrow may be history, for now, but the lessons learned about successful activism will last a lifetime. Some time ago I posted about how the local community was collaborating with full-time activists
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Automobile Poverty is a Threat to America
I'm clearly not the only one worrying about carlessness in America, or the proper role of markets in creating pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. Fellow TreeHugger Lloyd just sent me a link to a great piece by Steve Mouzon over at The Original Green
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Where the Sidewalks End, and Why: Don't Blame the Market
When I wrote that being carless in America is like second-class citizenship, it stirred up quite a debate. In between the calls for me to "go back to Britain", and the firm metaphorical
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Volunteering Gets You More Sex
We already know that for some people, choosing a partner has a lot to do with their dietary ethics—if your not vegan, no sex. But even for the non-vegans out there, sexual
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Being Carless in America is Like Second-Class Citizenship
The first time I came to America I was 23 years old, and it always confused me why people were so shocked that I had never driven a car. Until I started to travel. Because as soon as you
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To Be Effective, Environmentalism Can Not Be a "Lifestyle Choice"
When I wrote that even Anthony Bourdain's believes we should eat less meat, commenter
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Jay Walljasper Shows Us All That We Share & How We Can Reclaim the Commons (Book Review)
It may not make mainstream news headlines all that often, or indeed non-mainstream news headlines all that often either, but there's been a long-running battle being fought around the globe. You may not have thought of it as such, the casualties mostly
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Urban Farming in Detroit Helps Families Survive (Video)
When the makers of the End of Suburbia filmed Brother Nature Farm in Detroit, it was an inspiring first-hand account of how urban agriculture activists are working to feed the Motor City. While the slicker models of city
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Residents Demand More Wind Turbines
Image credit: Patrick Finnegan, used under Creative Commons license Wind farms may often face opposition from NIMBY protesters, but it doesn't always have to be that way. Not long ago I reported on how residents near a proposed wind farm were greatly in
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Reusable Bag Overload? Donate to Those Who Can't Afford Them
We have them in the trunks of our cars, stashed in closets, and in cupboards: Reusable bags have become ubiquitous, so much so that
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How to Start a Community Supported Bakery (Video)
The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model has widened its scope of late. From a community supported kitchen, through a grain-growing, sail-powered CSA, to community supported beer and baking, there's a lot to be said
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"Globalized Consumer Society Without Oil is Nonsense" - the Findhorn Film
I have posted a video before that explored the ecovillage at Findhorn, now there is a whole DVD based around this pioneering sustainable community. Only this DVD isn't just about the community—it's also about lessons we may
