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Making it Last

Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She鈥檚 still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.

Hunter Lovins | Aug 11, 2004

Renewable energy

Getting There on Less

How might we get around with less oil? Here鈥檚 a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.

Guy Dauncey | Aug 11, 2004

Cooperatives | Sustainable food and farming

Cheese, Bread, and Thou

A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a community hub and a thriving model of worker ownership.

The Cheese Board Collective | Jul 17, 2004

Local power | Water

The Lake And the ‘hood

Mono Lake activists fought a 16-year David-versus-Goliath battle against the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) to stop water diversions to Los Angeles. Yet the rural community and the city have emerged from the fray as watershed partners.

Jane Braxton Little | Jan 1, 2004

Local power | Water

A Watershed Runs Through You

The struggle to bring back endangered salmon draws one community into a new commitment to the well-being of its watershed

Freeman House | Jan 1, 2004

Water

Thinking Outside the House: Draught-proof Gardens

Your lawn and garden can be both beautiful and water efficient. Xeriscaping is the creative use of native plants that are beautiful, drought-tolerant, and sustainable.

Krista Camenzind | Jan 1, 2004

Water

The Battle For Water

Waste, pollution, population growth, global trade rules, and now privatization are threatening billions of people with water scarcity. How can we reclaim water for all life?

Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke | Jan 1, 2004

Surviving the Great Dying

As an era of extinctions unfolds, the dawning understanding of its links to our own health could energize a movement to save us all

Michael Lerner | Apr 1, 2003

Health Hunger And Hunting

a story of a vegetarian who learned how to hunt on his land. He developed his own personal ecology, which included eating locally and responsible hunting.

Jim Minick | Apr 1, 2003

Local economies | Sustainable food and farming

From the Earth, Up

Appalachian Sustainable Development, ASD, sustainable forestry and wood products program, sustainable farms.

Anthony Flaccavento | Oct 1, 2002

Sustainable food and farming

Pieces of the Puzzle

How Burlington became one of America's most sustainable communities.

Jill Bamburg | Oct 1, 2002

What Is Real Security

what is real security? The answer may be found by basing engineering on nature. Natural systems are efficient, diverse, dispersed, and renewable, hence, inherently resilient.

Amory B. Lovins, Hunter Lovins | Feb 1, 2002

Renewable energy

A Sustainable Energy Plan For the US

Examines the policies, technologies, and strategies that could lead the US and the world to a sustainable energy future.

Guy Dauncey | Oct 1, 2001

Local power | Renewable energy

Where There鈥檚 a Way

Where there's a way, by Michael M鈥橤onigle. Global Trade Agreements are just the latest way local communities are losing control over the surrounding forests and the watersheds. If there was a way to reclaim the commons, might there also be a political will?

Michael M'Gonigle | Jul 1, 2001