Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’

Blogging without Borders Part 2: What was doomed, poorly marketed and/or tangentially racist at the Green Festival.

Last month I reviewed some of my favorite finds from the San Francisco and DC Green Festivals – the sustainable products, green businesses and environmental campaigns that have some hope for success. Today is the flip side: the products, campaigns and ideas from the Green Festivals that are just so doomed, so indigenoused-out, so kind-of-racist, or so [...]

Some Sustainable Disasters.

It turns out that there is a lot we can learn about sustainability from people who have been forced by political catastrophe to sustain themselves. Residents of Gaza, desperate because the territory has been effectively cut off from aid and supplies by the Israeli government, have started to recycle pieces of the Separation Barrier that [...]

Bamboo shoots against global warming.

One of the interesting things about trying to live a more “green” lifestyle is learning all about what a remarkable product bamboo can be, and how versatile it is as a sustainable material. Most bamboo is entirely organic, replenishes soil and sucks carbon dioxide right out of the air. Ha ha you’re not reading this [...]