Tag: green
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Frank Herbert is also a great teacher
The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert. Man, the things I learn about my favorite author Frank Herbert, writer of the Dune book series. This excerpt illustrates an experience he provided his students to inspire them to answer questions he often asks in his books. So I hit on the idea of taking them out for along […]
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Video: Water Bottle Lights and Other Eco-Friendly Inventions · Global Voices
Solar lights and hot water heaters from plastic water bottles, houses made from trash and a way to do without plastic bags are some of the projects making reducing, reusing and recycling not only fun and affordable but also vital to improving the quality of life of people all around the world. via Video: Water […]
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links for 2010-05-16
So You Want to Be an American: 5 Circles of Immigration Hell | Cracked.com …when you make the legal pathway to something long, baffling and infuriating enough, many people are going to skip it in favor of the easy option. Even if choosing that option makes them a criminal. So are you part of the […]
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Dubai trip report
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf I spent last week in Dubai. My first overseas trip since 2003. Dubai is essentially a tourist spot (Vegas much?). The buildings are like something out of cyberpunk media during its height in the late eighties and early nineties. Other people think the architecture is too contemporary and will date itself in time, but […]
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Raise the Steaks
It has come to my attention that a great number of visitors to my blog are following the sustainability tag. I regret to inform interested viewers that I am currently in basement-dwelling bohemian mode, which I assume is far from sustainable. Living this lifestyle cuts me off from information regarding sustainability from this locality. Texas […]
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National Center for Home Food Preservation | USDA Publications
National Center for Home Food Preservation | USDA Publications. I got this idea after visiting a professor’s woodland cabin homestead as subject for documentary class. I thought to myself “Is it this easy?” I can make my own mango chutney now!!!
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A good breakfast, but a poor supper
From professors in my neck of the woods If hope for averting environmental disaster is not the right reason to live sustainably, what is? The scholars say we must provide people with reasons to live sustainably that are rational and effective, based on virtues rather than consequences. That means equating sustainable living not with hope […]
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Greener grass on the other side
From The Technium There seem to be about six species of collapsitarians: Luddites, anarchists, and anti-civilization activists (see The Unabomber Was Right) who are trying the hasten collapse as soon as possible. (There was a point after the hurricane season 2004 where I felt a measure of dependency and helplessness by living without amenities such […]
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Check out Free Ebook: Thriving on Less – Simplifying in a Tough Economy
Free Ebook: Thriving on Less – Simplifying in a Tough Economy