sustainability

Hmmm, would like to find out more about this. I wonder if it has potential?

I think there are local, marginal , groups to impress, however...

Quoted: That's because Main Street today is a much more confusing place, crowded with niche consumer tribes. Some see status in sneakers, but others in handbags, and still others in eco-chic stuff, and, who knows, ...

Trying this out, there's a buying club in Issaquah.

Quoted: In the beautiful Walla Walla Valley of Washington State – where we raise and finish 100% grass fed beef, lamb, goat, and pastured poultry on certified organic pastures of alfalfa and grass. We also offer delicious, sustainably-raised pork. Our livestock receive no hormones & no antibiotics and are allowed to forage as they please - sustainable agriculture at its best! The result is naturally flavorful, healthy meats from our family farm to you.

Quoted: Earth Day Network (EDN) is the worldwide coordinating body for Earth Day events, campaigns, and activities. EDN provides support to an international network of over 8,000 organizations and 97,000 educators in 184 countries. Through EDN“ efforts, millions of people learn about their environment and take action to protect it.

This is a really neat store in ballard with environmentally friendly furniture and household stuff.

Quoted: How much longer can we 'overshoot'? : Our population is consuming about 30% more trees, fish and fossil fuels than the planet can regenerate. How big a hole can we dig before we can't get out of it? Kai Ryssdal talks with Jared Diamond, a geography professor at UCLA.
Author of Collapse (which I read for school)
and Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society (which I didn't) and The Third Chimpanzee (where's the italics button?)

Earthships from the 70s...

Quoted: Internal, non-load-bearing walls are often made of a "honey comb" of recycled cans separated by concrete. The walls are then usually thickly plastered, using the pull-tabs on the cans as a lath to hold the adobe and stucco. This is known as a tin can wall.

Outstanding blog on climate change and sustainable living by Andrew Revkin of the NY Times...

Quoted: This was the fourth such review since 1990. Progressively over that span, the panel’s reports have raised the likelihood that people, mainly by burning billions of tons of coal and oil, have been the main force responsible for global warming since 1950 and that a lot more warming, coastal retreats and shifting weather are in the offing under business as usual. (In the bargain we get some plankton-harming ocean acidification, something not anticipated originally).

Quoted: Within the fence area, scientists have observed a strange phenomenon: above the native vegetation, the sky is rich in rain-producing clouds. But the sky on the farmland side is clear.

This is fascinating. A team of researchers led by Udaysankar Nair and Tom Lyons have proposed three possible explanations.