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POPSDJ Moo Moo Supports Going Green in Charleston SC "I recently was the host DJ at a fantastic Charleston Event event called the Lowcountry Derby Party. It was all about “going green” and doing what is best for Charleston SC and the Earth in general." The Derby is a super great "Green Networking" Event! Go Moo Moo!
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POPSSimple Low-Tech Home Wins Prize For Sustainability
Woodruff's house uses just 25% of the energy of a conventional house of the same size. His winter power costs are a $30 electricity bill each month and a cord of wood. In the summer, power is needed only for the hot water heater and appliances. Yet the little 1,100-sq.-ft. house is as straightforward as you can get. No high-tech gizmos. No elaborate contortions. The house relies on simple architectural principles -- windows oriented for sunlight, cross breezes for ventilation, overhangs for shade -- basics that were much lauded in the 1940s and '50s, but less emphasized since. They included large doors that can be opened for cross-breezes. They designed the heating so energy is used and reused within rooms. The living/ dining/kitchen area is one big room heated by a wood stove on rainy days, and the sun on sunny days. "The public rooms face east, the logic being you want those to heat up with the sun first in the winter and in the summer, you want to avoid the hot western sun.
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POPSThe inevitable collapse of the dollar "The path that we're on right now is not sustainable." "The portfolio adjustments will be swift and severe." "There's going to be a major realignment of global living standard." "Every knows the dollar could collapse, but nobody knows where it will start."
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POPS The Sustainable Living Roadshow (SLR) Coming to a town near you. SLR @ Emory University Atlanta, GA. September 20/21, 2008. The Sustainable Living Roadshow (SLR) is a caravan of educators and entertainers who tour the country in a fleet of renewable fuel vehicles setting up off-the-grid eco-carnivals with experiential learning villages, empowering communities to utilize sustainable living strategies for a healthier planet. empowering communities to utilize sustainable living strategies for a healthier planet.
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POPSBaufritz German pefabricated house builder with an office in Cambridge. They probably get really irritated when everyone compares them to Huf.
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POPSCommon Wealth: Sustainable future We are in one another's faces as never before, crowded into an interconnected society of global trade, migration, ideas and, yes, risk of pandemic diseases, terrorism, refugee movements and conflict. We also face a momentous choice. Continue on our current course, and the world is likely to experience growing conflicts between haves and have-nots, intensifying environmental catastrophes and downturns in living standards caused by interlocking crises of energy, water, food and violent conflict. Yet for a small annual investment of world income, undertaken cooperatively across the world, our generation can harness new technologies for clean energy, reliable food supplies, disease control and the end of extreme poverty.
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POPSThe coming famine "In light of all these hurdles, as I see it, the challenge is to double world food output by 2050 using less land, far less water and fewer nutrients – all in the teeth of increasing rates of drought. And we need to do it sustainably." "I believe we are quite capable of solving these issues through good science and good policy. In the first instance, we need to massively increase global public investment in agricultural research and development. Then we need to make sure the fruits of that research reach farmers everywhere. I also think that commercial wild harvests, such as fishing and forestry, should be phased out in favour of sustainable farming that dovetails with the local environment."
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POPSI Love Living in California California continues to lead the way in sustainable energy. This announcement by PG&E shows it is possible. PG&E and other major power providers in CA have many separate initiatives going on like this. It's based on the idea that there won't be one "green" source that will replace oil, but by incorporating many different green sources of energy into the portfolio, we can begin to ween ourselves off of oil.
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POPSSimple Living aka Voluntary Simplicity This is a subject I find fascinating. Often confused, and emotionally charged subject, incorrectly equated, intertwined and entangled other ideas like frugality, miserliness, stinginess.
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POPSWhat Ideas Will Shape our Future? The 10 Ideas of the 21st Century "More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on." "The 21st century will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The 20th century saw the end of European dominance of global politics and economics. The 21st century will see the end of American dominance too, as new powers make their voices heard on the world stage." "The challenges of sustainable development—protecting the environment, stabilizing the world's population, narrowing the gaps of rich and poor and ending extreme poverty—will render passé the very idea of competing nation-states that scramble for markets, power and resources." "The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet." "6.6 billion people living in an interconnected global economy producing an astounding $60 trillion of output each year."
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POPSDo you use Dove Soap? Ironically, Unilever, the makers of Dove soap, are on the list of The 2008 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, yet this video shows they have a slight problem living up to that reputation. http://www.csrwire.com/News/10851.html
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