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BALLE: Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
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5th BALLE Conference Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
Posted on February 23, 2007 by iwilder
Is Your Fridge Running (Efficiently)?
Posted on February 15, 2007 by iwilder
Appliances account for about 20 percent of a household’s annual electricity use. Since most of our nation’s electricity is generated from fossil fuels (such as coal and natural gas), which contribute to global warming and air and water pollution, replacing older appliances with more efficient Energy Star-rated models can go a long way toward reducing […]
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Break Free of the Global Economy – Go Local
Posted on January 10, 2007 by iwilder
Dear Reader, We’ve been inundated with positive responses to Go Local, our Winter 2007 issue of YES! Magazine. It’s clear that our call for independence from the global corporate economy is resonating with people all over the country who are ready for a change. Judy Wicks chats with her customers outside Philadelphia’s White Dog Cafe. […]
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Tonite: Long Island Offshore Windmills
Posted on January 3, 2007 by iwilder
At 7pm on Wednesday, January 3, 2007, the Babylon Green Party will host Beth Fiteni of the WindWorks Long Island, also known as the Long Island Offshore Wind Initiative (LIOWI), to speak about the windmills being placed off the Babylon shore. Representatives from local, state and national environmental groups have unanimously supported a 140 megawatt […]
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Remembering John Mohawk
Posted on December 28, 2006 by iwilder
from Stan: JOHN MOHAWK WAS RIGHT. Rick Whaley remembers John Mohawk: Author and Professor John Mohawk spoke at the first national Greens gathering in Amherst, Massachusetts in July 1987. He provides, to my mind, the most profound theoretical center for Green politics. Marxism, he argues, is the flip side of capitalism, not its opposite or […]
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And the Color of NEXT Year Is . . .
Posted on December 23, 2006 by iwilder
from Joel Makower’s blog: Kudos to New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, who’s scored yet another triumph with his latest column, And the Color of the Year Is …. That color, of course, is “green,” an assessment with which I can hardly argue. But it’s more than that. Friedman’s column resonated with me on several […]
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canvas: Paints LI Sustainable
Posted on December 23, 2006 by iwilder
[Editors note: Picked us this magazine at Sherry’s in Babylon. Then got emails from 2 staffers interested in what others are doing. They are trying to rech out to the LI community.] CANVAS: New Magazine Paints Dynamic Sustainable Portrait of Long Island Publication Provides Community Forum for Green Topics and Socially Conscious Consumers In a […]
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Green Gadgets for the Holidays
Posted on December 16, 2006 by iwilder
Electronic gadgets are popular holiday gifts, but as their popularity and versatility continue to grow, so does their impact on the environment. Devices that plug into wall outlets are responsible for a small but growing portion of a household’s total energy consumption (about five to seven percent). This energy is generated primarily by fossil […]
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Corporate Organics; Live Xmas Trees; Faux Guacamole & more
Posted on December 14, 2006 by iwilder
ALERT OF THE WEEK: NATIONAL ORGANIC STANDARDS BOARD STACKED WITH INDUSTRY REPS The USDA, behind closed doors, recently announced several highly questionable appointees to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). Despite calls from the organic community to let the public know ahead of time who the nominees were, the USDA kept the names of […]
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Our Climate Ourselves
Posted on December 12, 2006 by iwilder
Supporting Grassroots Education About Global Climate Change What We Do We provide training and materials to help people who are leading their families, their communities, their businesses, or their industries in taking action on climate change. We serve especially the many people who are convinced that climate change is a real and serious issue, but […]
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Book(s) of the Month 12/06
Posted on December 1, 2006 by iwilder
Your Money Or Your Life Transforming You by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin sparked the modern simplicity movement. It remains one of the pre-eminent sources for how to create financial freedom by seperating your needs from your wants. This is not a get rich quick scheme. It is the progeny of Thoreau’s “On Walden Pond”. […]
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Vegetarian Thanksgiving, Hunger & Dangerous Toys
Posted on November 23, 2006 by iwilder
TIP OF THE WEEK: PLEASING THE VEGETARIANS AT YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER Whether you are a vegetarian yourself or you have vegetarians coming to dinner, there’s no need to sweat over the Thanksgiving dinner spread. Roughly one in ten Americans call themselves vegetarians, according to the Vegetarian Resource Group’s website. With the statistics from the U.S. […]
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Healthier Thanksgiving, Obesity & Flouride
Posted on November 17, 2006 by iwilder
ORGANIC BYTES #95 Health, Justice and Sustainability News Tidbits with an Edge! 11/15/2006 TIP OF THE WEEK: FOR THANKSGIVING BUY LOCAL AND ORGANIC The average American consumes more calories on Thanksgiving Day than any other day of the year. With the average supermarket food traveling 2500 miles from farm to fork, the Thanksgiving dinner cornucopia […]
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