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Sustainable Land Use

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Sustainability

Defining Sustainable Land Use
Sustainable land use — I get so excited about this one. I truly believe we’re only scratching the surface and that the best is yet to come. Through land development, reconfiguration, general use, personal use, commercial use — Sustainable Land Use is one way we can all subscribe to the green way [...]

Urban Planning

March 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Sustainability

The Basics of Urban Planning, From a Green Perspective

Urban Planning, in general, is a concept and a discipline that involves how we develop and use the land available to us as a society — from the buildings and infrastructure of a city, to the social aspects of how bodies function and move within those spaces, [...]

Eating a Sustainable Thanksgiving

November 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Sustainability

Eat Well Guide, America’s premier guide for finding locally-grown sustainable substitutes for externally grown food, and Consumers Union, the nonprofit group publishing Consumer Reports, have teamed up to launch “The Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge”.
The contest challenges American’s to use the Eat Well Guide to learn more about locally grown, sustainable food, and to [...]

Toxic Soil Can Save Millions

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Sustainability

Thanks to researchers at the University of California – Riverside, a large portion of the Earth’s current non-hospitable soil can now become inhabitable by food crops, taking pressure off of one of the most pressing problems facing the expansion of human life – overpopulation and limited resources.
Scientists at the university have developed a method to [...]

Green Building

July 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Sustainability

What Is Green Building?

Through the practice of Green Building, architects, designers, developers and those in the field of construction attempt to erect buildings that use resources such as water, building materials like wood and energy, in as smart a way as possible. This means that the involved professionals attempt to reduce the overall impact of [...]