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Blogs: Sustainability

Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Sometimes a guest post arrives which needs nothing extra added from anyone here. This is one, and here it is… Okay, here goes. My name is Judy Johnson and I am an ordinary-type person of no particular importance to anything or anyone outside of my own circle of family and friends. I do all in my...

Charting Tomorrow

This interesting chart floated my way the other day from an equally intriguing website called Permatopia. Here’s what its creators have to say about it: Permatopia Patterns is a new way of thinking about permaculture. Historically, most permaculture guides and analyses have been focused on...

Viva Vermont! and Yert (Your Environmental Road Trip)

Living in Vermont surrounded by Vermonters, it’s hard to know what the rest of the world thinks of our little state. My sense is that everyone else considers ours to be a kind of quaint little place, a somewhat odd anachronism in the modern world populated by slightly old-fashioned, slightly wacky...

Dethroning King Coal

Welcome to Thursday and this inspired guest post from global protagonist Veronica Bach Watching with horror the latest in the series of fatal mine worker deaths, I was thinking that we should be able to provide these wonderful people alternative jobs that would produce energy, but would allow them...

Rules to Design By: Green Chemistry Principles

While researching an article on Green Chemistry for the upcoming Non-Toxic Times (which, keep your fingers crossed, will come out next week), I stumbled across an entry on the same subject in the ever amazing Wikipedia that contained something I didn’t know existed: a set of principles to guide...