Personal Stories/Inspiration
- One man saves his farm from fraking.
- A love letter to wind turbines by Amy Johns
- Teenage girls who invented a urine powered generator. Simply put, WOW!
- New special about waist management gives an enlightening perspective on the history of our "no deposit, no return" culture.
- Most of us have heard of Polyface Farms from The Omnivore's Dilemma. Polyface farms has their own DVD if you would like to learn more about what they do.
- A visual lesson in about the scope of our human footprint. Great for young environmentalist. There is also a book from National Geographic.
- Garth Lentz talks about the true cost of oil from a very humanistic perspective.
- Thousand Home Challenge is one group that is taking on the build environment one home at a time. Both inspirational and educational.
- Perpetual Ocean is a wonderful and beautiful reminder of how complex and dynamic our world is.
- 11 year old tells us what we should do with Monsanto and what he is going to do about it.
- British village Todmorden embarks on a road to food independence.
- Beth Terry, a woman who live almost entirely without plastic.
- We idealize children and look to their innocents to inspire us as adults. Here are a few points about play time to remember for the young and young at heart. 5 best toys ever!!!
- 69 year old woman gives up money and has never been happier. Once again proving that the standard dream isnt for everyone.
- Some times it pays to be green. This is the story of an oil skimmer that won the x prize.
- If you drive, eat food or live in a home, you are connect to oil and oil spills. I think this is a beautiful idea to help those loveable penguins and use up some yarn. The penguins wont mind if your color selection is off.
- Sometimes it just takes one person who believes it can be done. This family built a beautiful hobbit house for $5000. I couldnt imagine a home with more love or charm at any price.
- This short film is very moving. Dont watch it if you would prefer to remain inert.
- This sweet potato project helps to illustrate why how our food is handled should be important to us and just how ignorant we are.
- This sign says so much it inspires me.
- People on Riot4Austerity frequently disagree about weather it gets harder or stays the same as you reduce down from 100% to 10% consumption. I am of the mind that the first layer of stuff comes off easily . . . and that at some point its going to get hard. That point, will be different for everyone depending on their habits and uses. No Impact Man is a guy who tried to go for 0% in just 1 year. I am interested in watching the new movie and finding out more about what he got out of his experience. You have to subscribe to get most of the pages, but the front end is interesting.
- All of the sudden, I think it wouldnt be so very bad to own a swimming pool now that I know what to do with it. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/garden-pool-family-of-four-grows-food-in-swimming-pool-arizona.php
- I, Barbara, am a costumer as well as an environmentalist. Costumes are very interesting to me, but Im less interested in every day clothing. Here is someone who took a meaningful stand against the fashion machine. http://www.littlebrowndress.com/brown%20dress%20archive%20home.htm
