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?


Take A Home Energy Audit.


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


Peak Oil Explained


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


Is Ethanol Worth It?


  1. The Myth of a Hydrogen Economy



Renewable Energy


RE 101


  1. Find A Solar Installer Near You


  1. Can We Really Power Half The World With Wind?


Wind Energy Association



Start Today


• Turn Your Lights Off (no link here, it’s self explanatory)


Kick Your Plastic Bag Habit


Drop Those Plastic Water Bottles


Go CFL (or better yet LED)


Buy Green Power


Seriously, Enough With The Disposable Cups Already


Start A Worm Composter


Kill Your Vampires


• Refuse, ReUse, Recycle with Freecycle and Craigslist For Starters


Stop Your Junk Mail Now


Plug your Leaks


  1. Curb Your Chemicals - Alternative Cleaning Products That Work


The Wrap Up


  1. The First President of The United States


  1. Julia Bluhm’s Stops 17 Magazine


Amount of Gas the US Burns a Day


  1. Amount of Coal Burned Every Hour In The US


Solar Panels Needed To Power The World



Media Worth Checking Out


Home Power Magazine


The Treasures Of Simple Living


Who Owns The Sky


The Omnivores Dilemma


An Inconvenient Truth (The Book)


Who Killed The Electric Car


Heat


The Way We Eat - Why Our Food Choices Matter


One City : A Declaration Of Independence


WorldChanging


Design Like You Give A Damn


The World Without Us


The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference


  1. Cradle To Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things


What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption





  1. 365 Days Of Trash


  1. The Junk Raft Expedition


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."