Chasing Sustainability
Chasing Sustainability
Get Connected To Your Personal Impact
• What’s Your Impact? (if site doesn’t run, use low bandwidth link)
• Where Does Your Power Come From?
• What’s the Problem With Stuff?
• See How Much Energy A Simple Can Of Soda Requires.
• Where Does Your Recycling End Up Anyway?
• Where Does Your Gasoline Come From?
Global Warming
• Why Global Warming Isn’t The Only Reason To Live Sustainably
• What’s The Deal With Carbon Offsets?
• International Panel On Climate Change Report
Energy
• Hear Dr. Nathan Lewis Explain Where We Are And Where We Are Headed
The Problems With Fossil Fuels
• Shell’s CEO says We Are 7 Years Away From The Peak
• National Geographic’s “The End of Cheap Oil” Article
• “The Oil We Eat” Following The Food Chain Back To Iraq
• How To Teach Your Car To Drink Veggie Juice
• The Tesla All Electric Sportscar
• The Aptera Electric and Gas/Electric Hybrid Vehicles
Renewable Energy
• RE 101
Start Today
• Turn Your Lights Off (no link here, it’s self explanatory)
• Drop Those Plastic Water Bottles
• Seriously, Enough With The Disposable Cups Already
• Refuse, ReUse, Recycle with Freecycle and Craigslist For Starters
The Wrap Up
• Amount of Gas the US Burns a Day
• Solar Panels Needed To Power The World
Media Worth Checking Out
• The Treasures Of Simple Living
• An Inconvenient Truth (The Book)
• Heat
• The Way We Eat - Why Our Food Choices Matter
• One City : A Declaration Of Independence
• The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
• What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
• 5 Gyres
"Let me say this again, I'm going to tell you how the united states can get completely off oil and coal 5 trillion dollars cheaper with no act of Congress, led by business, for profit."