And the winner of my copy of The Transition Handbook is… comment #4 – Shaunta Alburger (whose has a lovely blog – Live Once, Juicy). Congrats! E-mail me your address and I will send the book your way. And thanks so much to all of you who spread the word and left comments. I didn’t [...]
If you’re a regular reader, you know that I’ve been babbling on about the Transition initiative for several weeks now. I finally slogged through the last section of the book (which yes, does get a little slow) and tapped out my review. Then my computer exploded and ate it, so you all are stuck with [...]
Last week I wrote a bit about resilience, what it means, and why people are talking about it so much these days. If you’re anything like me, you nodded, said “I get it, I get it…” and immediately moved on to the next obvious question: “What makes a community resilient?”
According to the Transition approach, the [...]
Welcome to the next installment of Transition Friday. Transition Tuesday would be nice and alliterative, but would require me to get my act together on Tuesdays, which isn’t going to happen.
If sustainability was the buzzword for 2009, resilience is it for 2010. That was my thought at the beginning of the year, and I was [...]
One of the (too many) books I’ve been reading lately is The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. I read it as part of the Hyperlocavore book club, which turned out to be really fantastic. (The chat logs from our weekly sessions are still available, although the conversations have mostly wrapped up.) The book was a [...]
Greenwash: the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly, such as by presenting cost cuts as reductions in use of resources. It is a deceptive use of green PR or green marketing. (Taken from the Wikipedia entry.)
I got a letter in the mail from my mom the other day that [...]
Sometimes I wear myself out worrying about the big picture. I know I’m not the only one who does this. Just last week, Psychologists for Social Responsibility warned that if we do not see dramatic political action on climate change by the end of this year, there is a risk that “millions of people will [...]
I have decided that this year, for the first time ever, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I first heard about NaNoWriMo during my senior year of college. For various reasons that often resembled excuses, I did not sign up that year, nor have I any year since. But no more [...]
Every Monday, a whole host of tweets go out under the tag #EcoMonday, #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday. In #EcoMonday, people tweet what they’re reading, recommend other Twitter users to follow, and have conversations about sustainability, climate change, green living, and everything else “eco.” Tweeters in #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday choose to eat no meat for a day, [...]
What makes for a “good week” in sustainability news? Lots of news? A week more or less devoid of major crises? Big breakthroughs in science and technology? Maybe it’s just a week of active and constructive dialogue about sustainability and the big picture? This week was definitely the latter.
In Living Sustainably in the City, we [...]
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