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Jordan, and his dad Rick are the creators of Power-Talk.net and authors of The Complete Consumer’s Guide To Wind Power ebook. This ebook offers a non-technical easy to understand approach to wind power. You get an in-depth tour covering every topic from selecting the best location to choosing the right wind turbine. Includes candid reviews of turbines currently sold in the U.s.
- Continue reading The Ultimate Consumers Guide to Wind Power
I came across this global consulting company called Sustainability that works with a diverse group of clients and partners to create value through development of innovative solutions to environmental, social and governance challenges. Basically they help companies transform their businesses towards a more sustainable path.
Visit www.sustainability.com for more info.
This is a great story about a sustainable family and the message we share on this web site. We all need to do more to become more sustainable.
Path to Freedom presents ‘A Homegrown Revolution’ A collaboration of selective media clips which feature their urban homestead and farm which focus on the need of radical action — growing food in the city.
This self produced, short music video was shown at Peter Seller’s Cultural Art’s class at UCLA followed by a short presentation by urban farmer, Jules Dervaes founder of Path to Freedom. The class focus was on the art of slow food and among other guests invited were Michael Pollan, Alice Waters and Eric Schlosser.
Like Victory Gardens of yesteryear, start your own homegrown revolution, grow your own food in your back or front yard — for more information visit the urban homesteaders at www.PathtoFreedom.com
Or on their online journal at:www.urbanhomestead.org/journal
Since the early 80′s the Dervaes family has slowly transformed their ordinary city lot into a self sufficient urban homestead.
Your own backyard chicken coop will provide you with daily fresh organic eggs for the kitchen. It will recycle your families food scraps and produce high quality fertilizer for your garden. Best of all, your family will be proud of the coop that you created with you own two hands.
Visit www.buildingachickencoop.com to learn more.
Jim Meaney, owner of Cansolair Inc. displays how he converts pop cans into a powerful solar heating panel. A very sustainable solution that reuses trash. I love this idea.
Laura Fox wrote a great book on Organic Gardening. The book will teach you how to start using a natural gardening method, even if you have never planted anything in your life. This easy-to-understand book focuses on everything you need to know about Organic Gardening whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned gardener.
The dangers of pesticides and chemical fertilizers are real. Not only are they dangerous but they rob your produce of flavor. Chemical fertilizers actually destroy your soil as it kills off the bacteria your soil needs. Poison bug sprays really make inspect problems worse. They kill everything along with the pests: soil bacteria, earthworms, ladybugs, the green lacewing, and many other garden friends. Once the ecological balance is upset the pests will return even stronger and more resistant to that pesticide. You will be forced to use something even stronger so that is why you need to break this deadly cycle. You owe it to yourself to learn the inexpensive methods of organic gardening.
The book is a great resource if you new to organic gardening.
Want to learn how you can save a ton of money by building your own solar panels? I know I do. You can save lots of money and rather than buying more new stuff, you can reuse materials already available.
Check out www.homemadeenergy.org
- Continue reading Don’t buy solar panels. Instead, Build them.
Making a solar panel has never been easier. Mike shows you how to make a panel to heat a room or even a whole house starting at about $50. No ugly boxes hanging on the side of your house. No cutting holes in the side of you house to get the heat in. No infiltration of the nights cold in to the room adjacent an exterior panel. This sustainable solution can work in apartments as well as condos as they hang in the window and can be taken down in the spring.
Made from window film, Cinefoil, aluminum flashing, aluminum heating tape and screen frames.
Check out this video and learn more about this project here.
Easy Energy Audits: Audit your homes energy waste with this kit. Click here.
The back-to-the-land movement calls for occupants of real property to grow food from the land on a small-scale basis for themselves or for others, and to perhaps live on the land while doing so.
The concept was popularized in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century by activist Bolton Hall, who set up vacant-lot farming in New York City and wrote many books on the subject. The practice, however, was strong in Europe even before that time.
It also referred to distributism, a 1920s and 1930s attempt to find a third way between capitalism and socialism. It was later used to refer to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s. This latter back-to-the-land movement was a migration from cities to rural areas that took place in the United States, its greatest vigor being before the mid ’70s.
As of 2010 the term may apply to anyone who follows the back-to-the-land movement by adopting a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle. While land is no longer freely available in most areas of the world, homesteading remains as a way of life. According to author John Seymour, ‘urban homesteading’ incorporates small-scale, sustainable agriculture and homemaking.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement
Here is a short list of suggestions on how to be a sustainable citizen. Find ways to reduce your impact on the environment or suggest some ideas not yet listed: