Tag: Communities - Page 3
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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.
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Britain's First Solar Town? The Journey Continues
From rooftop panels to a large solar farm, one town is aiming to go 100% renewable. They're not forgetting conservation either.
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Dream of the 1920s: Complex from 1927 in Buenos Aires is Everything a Green Home Should Be
Low rise buildings, green common spaces, culture, and community living in a housing complex which has become the it living spot for Buenos Aires’ artistic types.
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How an Abandoned Market Garden Was Occupied (Video)
A village that was threatened by the expansion of Heathrow Airport in London became home to a squatted community garden. Here's how it happened.
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Has Green Failed Because Environmental Donors Have Been Giving to the Wrong Groups?
Green groups with big budgets are just 2% of all environmental organizations, yet receive over half of all donations. Donors are neglecting the grassroots, and it shows in the results of our movement.
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Since When Was Creating Jobs & Building Community Elitism?
Accusations of elitism against environmentalists are nothing new. But whose interests do they serve?
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Inside the Mind of a Master Repair Tech
Ralph has fixed computers since they were "chock-full of tubes and a big refrigerated room and a raised deck with all the cabling under plates on the floor."
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POSTPONED: Building Resilient Communities: Q&A With Transition Movement Founder Rob Hopkins
The Transition Movement - a community-centered response to peak oil and climate change - has been described as "the biggest urban brainwave of the century." Join us to chat with its founder.
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I Am An Environmentalist. Yes, I DO Want to Restrict Your "Freedom"
Anti-environmentalists often evoke liberty and property rights in their fight against sustainability. But they are following the politics of a preschooler.
