Recyclemania is a currently running national competition with 514 colleges and universities participating. Forty institutions in California are registered (the full list is found on the website). The goal of Recyclemania is to increase awareness and participation in diverting materials from landfills and instead using them as raw materials to make other products. This saves [...]
Sustainability is a series of choices, a confluence of action and attitudes. Initially, these may seem like common sense in the same way building a beautiful home happens by simply setting one brick on another. But in the modern world, we have destroyed our collective home more often than we have nurtured it. When we [...]
Sometimes a t-shirt is far more than a piece of fabric, or an item of clothing. There are times when a t-shirt can become a powerful statement, a wearable Karma Yoga of activism. This is certainly the case for the line Revenge Is… While the name itself is a bit of a mind-stopper, it asks [...]
According to leading environmental thinkers at the SOS Climate Change International Conference (produced by the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association), a huge element in our daily lives has flown under the radar in revolutionizing behavior to reduce our environmental impact. The SOS presentations focused on the tremendous potential of a vegetarian – better yet [...]
The Yoga of Sustainable Culture Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living which is possible in any location. –Permaculture Co-Founder Bill Mollison The world today is in need of [...]
JUNK sails to bring awareness to the scourge of plastic polluting the world’s waters On June 20, a Coast Guard plane flew over the most unusual seagoing craft the crew had ever seen. The vessel’s name: JUNK. It’s a ship that truly lives up to its name as it is predominantly made up of the [...]
Reduce, Reuse or Recycle Your Hard Drive. My current laptop is coming upon its first birthday. In computer years this could be its 50th. Technology changes so quickly that computers are deemed ancient after only two or three years, even though their hardware is made to last seven years and their software three, according to [...]
The future of our planet is not by chance…but by choice. Walking upon the grounds of Cornucopia at Malibu High School is an experience that touches upon all of the senses. The alluring site is filled with the scents of hummingbird sage and lavender, the bright vibrancy of poppies, giant sunflowers and native trees; and [...]
Creative Container Gardening Nourishes Ourselves And Our Earth NOTHING COMPARES WITH THE TASTE of freshly picked, vine-ripened, home-grown tomatoes. Sweet, juicy, delicious, colorful, bursting, it’s something special. Even the most organically grown, farm fresh produce isn’t quite the same as the loving care we take with growing our own food. While we may long to [...]