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Clean Fuel Caravan

The Sustainable Living Roadshow is a caravan of educators, entertainers and activists coordinating cross-country tours that empower communities and individuals to utilize sustainable strategies for a healthier planet. Visiting university campuses and community events across the United States, the tour encompasses a fleet of non-petroleum based renewable fuel vehicles built to educate and demonstrate sustainability. At each stop, the caravan sets up experiential learning villages, featuring workshops, speakers, and entertainment.

Echo Project

I attended this year's Echo Project for two reasons. First the band I mix sound for, Dubconscious, played two shows at the festival that went very well. The second reason was to provide multimedia services for the Echo System Experience tent with my friends and colleagues at Change Of Atmosphere. Here's a video about the event.

Greening Bonnaroo

The Miniature Earth

Global Warming Music Video

One Planet Budgeting: making sustainability real with the ecological footprint

Google Tech Talks December 6, 2006 Are we running out of planet? Was Malthus wrong? Do economies self-correct or self-destruct when operating as if resources are limitless? Can everyone on this planet live like a Chinese? A Costa Rican? A Canadian? Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explores these questions, and showcases applications from around the world with government agencies, NGOs, businesses, cities, highlighting how this tool helps make development sustainable. Since the 1980s, humanity's demand on ecological resources has exceeded what the Earth can renew. We are in a state of ecological overshoot, on an unsustainable path. We can reverse this trend by managing both supply and demand. The Ecological Footprint is a practical, scientific tool designed to do just that. Developed over the last 15 years, this tool compares human demand on ecological resources with the planet's capacity to renew them and is being used by hundreds of governments, businesses, and NGOs around the globe. Global Footprint Network's mission is to support a sustainable economy by advancing the Ecological Footprint and making the reality of planetary limits relevant to decision-makers throughout the world. Together with its over 50 partner organizations around the world, Global Footprint Network continuously strengthens and improves the Ecological Footprint by coordinating research, developing methodological standards, and providing robust national resource accounts. For more information visit www.footprintnetwork.org.

My House: Sustainable Home

Here is a fun way to learn how easy it is to start taking adantage of renewable energy. Sustainable home design is easier to understand once you've seen and heard what it means. Join John Wilson on a tour of his award winning sustainable home as featured on My House, a reality television show produced by Rogers Television. By harnessing the power of the wind and collecting the suns energy sustainability is achievable even in the cold northern climate of Ontario, Canada. Situated near the top of a hill, facing due south, this passive solar house uses concrete flooring to collect heat from the sun without the need for a furnace. Massive straw bale walls insulate the home to retain heat in the winter and coolness in the summer. A large skylight in the center of the home creates a natural air conditioner that takes advantage of convention currents in the summer to cool the entire home, while providing day lighting year round. All the materials used in the construction are chemical and toxin free. This modern home combines comfort year round, energy sustainability, occupant health, and the inspiration of a natural setting.

The 12 Steps to Sustainability

The 12 Steps to Sustainability recorded by ark collective alpha one nine. A beautiful short video everyone needs to see. Artfully expressed and powerful.

Bob Willard: Quantifying Sustainability Opportunities/Benefits

This practical guide, written by a business professional for business professionals, convincingly argues that executives do not have to be transformed into tree-hugging environmental activists to reap the benefits of sustainability. They can remain just what their shareholders expect them to be — hard-nosed executives who evaluate proposals on their bottom-line merits. Saving the world and making a profit is not an either/or proposition; it is a both/and proposition. Good environmental and social programs make good business sense.

Biofuels: Think Outside The Barrel

Google TechTalks March 29, 2006 Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures. ABSTRACT On Wednesday, March 29th, by invitation from our co-founders and CEO, our special guest, Vinod Khosla, visited Google to deliver a tech talk about the emergence of ethanol as a viable, market ready, and competitive source of renewable energy. His presentation has been making huge waves in the investor, policy, and business communities and we are privileged to have had him take time to talk to us about the tremendous potential for ethanol's explosion into the market. Here are some recent articles that might be of interest in relation to this talk: Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley billionaire, who wants to save the world from oil http://www.economist.com/people/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5655161 On the Ethanol Bandwagon, Big Names and Big Risks http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/business/yourmoney/26etha.html?_r=1&oref=login

"Freshtopia," Cool Vlog about Food and Sustainability Wins Three "Vloggies"

I caught up with the very glamorous host Tanja Andrews and the show's talented director Oscar Grimm at the Vloggies awards in San Francisco on Saturday night. Their vlog Freshtopia grabbed three awards -- best food and green vlogs -- and best editing. Tanja and Oscar do a wonderful vlog about food, sustainability and the environment. It is clever, informative and yummy. It's very exciting to see such creativity and vision rise to the top so quickly -- in just three months. Tanja and Oscar note environmental issues are of huge influence in the blogesphere -- they point out the huge success of TreeHugger -- which is ranked number 74 in influence by Technorati. Oh, and the TreeHugger was as the Vloggies too. Check out Tanja's tomatoe soup recipe. -- Andy Plesser