by Stu E.D. | Jun 24, 2015 | Living Skills, Permaculture, Products & Services
The Permaculture Student series bring permaculture design science to home and public schools, families & adult learners. The Permaculture Student Website Permaculture is the future Permaculture is a design science that uses the patterns and systems of nature to...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 23, 2015 | Farming, Food
Many people in America are proponents of the organic food movement, and worried about the potentially harmful effects of pesticides on their health or the environment. In Cuba, farmers have gone organic for a very different reason – they had to. In this final...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 22, 2015 | Alternative Living, Intentional Community, Living Skills, Products & Services
Community Bookstore Gaia Education Guides Digital Teacher’s Guide Digital Youth Activities Guide Reviewed by Kim Kanney, Community Bookstore Manager Gaia Education Guides Teacher’s Guide & Youth Activities Guide by Gaia Education Digital Teacher’s Guide $15 Digital...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 20, 2015 | Farming, Food, Hawaii, Organizations
In an effort to assist small-scale food producers in Hawai‘i select vegetable varieties best suited for their specific locations, the Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative (HPSI) is pleased to offer the Hawai‘i Seed Variety Selection Tool. This tool consists of two parts:A...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 18, 2015 | Hawaii, Oahu
Honolulu has always faced homelessness, but the city is finally taking action and doing something incredible for the homeless people in the area. Honolulu-based architecture company, Group 70 International, is working on putting retired city buses to use in an amazing...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 18, 2015 | Ecotourism, Hawaii, Sustainability
If we limit the use of our natural resources and educate the users — including tourists — we just might be around for the long haul. The word “sustainable” is a bit of a buzzword, evoking images of wind turbines, solar panels, and barefoot hippies eating locally grown...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 16, 2015 | Hawaii, Microhydro, Sustainability
Northwest Energy Innovations has deployed its wave energy device in waters off Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Windward Oahu, beginning a year-long test to commercialize this type of technology, the company said.The “Azura” wave energy device is located at the U.S. Navy’s...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 15, 2015 | Farming, Food, Products & Services
Like a whale and the myriad barnacles clinging to its sides, Whole Foods Market and organic farmers have long had a symbiotic relationship. The grocer has helped stoke the American appetite for organic products, building stores that are essentially showcases for...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 13, 2015 | Activism, Alternative Living, Environment, Podcasts
Unlearn & Rewild Podcast With Derrick Jensen Civilization took millennia to congeal, and in the last few hundred years it has accelerated its world takeover. The health of the world’s plant and animal communities has inversely plummeted, where now species extinctions...
by Rachel M. Walls | Jun 11, 2015 | Environment, Sustainability
Like many athletes, surfers — and the manufacturers who produce their expensive boards — are very particular about their equipment. Even minute details can make or break the next wave, which has led to quite a conundrum for the stereotypically-green surf culture. Lots...
