Weekly Mulch: Local Food—Where Sustainability Meets Self-Reliance
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Last week, environmentalists and food advocates warily welcomed the news that Walmart plans to expand its local, sustainable food program. The company announced it would double its sales of locally grown food by 2015 and, in new markets, would source from small and midsized producers. Given Walmart’s market share, this [...]
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Vote Down Under!
Elections in Australia don’t have a predictable two year marathon time-line. Instead, the sitting prime minister calls an election and then everyone has 5 weeks to campaign, because on the 5th weekend the voting happens (which is mandatory, but more on that in a bit)
A few weeks ago, when Julia Gillard called an election, it [...]
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Vote Down Under!
Elections in Australia don’t have a predictable two year marathon time-line. Instead, the sitting prime minister calls an election and then everyone has 5 weeks to campaign, because on the 5th weekend the voting happens (which is mandatory, but more on that in a bit)
A few weeks ago, when Julia Gillard called an election, [...]
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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Jessica Morey
Congratulations to Jessica Morey this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the Week. We met Jessica with the help of a mutual friend, and were greatly impressed by her environmental resume. Both in her efforts with Climate Lab – a climate change wiki, and her on-going work and educational background Jessica is exactly the type of [...]
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Teen Climate Leaders Trained by Al Gore!
32 teen climate leaders, and Inconvenient Youth members, were personally trained by Al Gore to spread awareness of the climate crisis to the public.
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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Brandon McEachern
Congratulations to Brandon McEachern this weeks Climate Community Citizen of The Week. Brandon is a wonderful, very energetic and positive young man who is the founder of a website/and a movement called Broccoli City. Brandon saw a need in US urban communities for exposure to topics such as – “green”, “eco”, “organic”. He believes (as [...]
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Organic Flowers
Here we have another wonderful video from our friends at Eco Company TV:
Flowers are big business all around the world. But just like most food products pesticides are traditionally used to control insects and pests. But Eco Company’s Jordon visited one grower that uses good bugs or beneficial bugs to control bad bugs. She filed [...]
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Green Party for a great cause…
On Saturday we were a part of an absolutly fantastic party hosted by The Green Girls, and The Climate Community in which we raised money for a remarkable organization – EarthSpark International.
The most amazing aspect of the event was the ability of our wonderful hostess and friend Apple Levy to bring together such a wide [...]
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Energy Finance for Real Estate
Davida Heller / June 23, 2010
On Tuesday, June 8, The Urban Land Institute Climate Change, Land Use, and Energy Initiative hosted a forum at the recently retrofitted Empire State Building entitled Energy Finance for Real Estate. The event was held on the 61st floor of one of New York City’s most treasured buildings, which is [...]
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Grease to Gas – from restaurant to gas tank…
The following is from our friends at Eco Company-TV, Eco Company airs weekly across the country. Go to Eco-Company.TV to find the day, time and station in your area.
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