NASA will conduct its first-ever water sustainability forum next week at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is singling out 10 firms from around the world to showcase innovative solutions to water management.

A LEED-Platinum rated zero net energy live/work unit opens its doors to the public today before a deal closes to buy the unique property near the Oakland Estuary.
 

As consumers, we define ourselves by the brands we keep. We believe in them, yet they seldom give us new reasons to do so. But that's changing now as we find ourselves in the early stages of a new industrial revolution.

Support for green construction and LEED certification dipped slightly in 2009 but remains strong across the past three years despite the recession, according to the latest green building survey by Allen Matkins, Constructive Technologies Group and the Green Building Insider.
 

This survey of more than 1,600 design and construction professionals in the U.S. charts their latest perceptions and practices regarding green building -- and compares them to attitudes and activities before and during the Great Recession.

The fine folks at Change.org are mobilizing their community to rally around a single idea to present to the White House—an idea that could change America for the better. Here’s the thing: we want our idea to win. We think it’s a pretty good one, and we hope you’ll think so, too. But we need your [...]

"The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work.

Last week, we released the sustainability rankings of the world's largest oil and gas companies. Despite the skepticism of whether the industry can ever be green, there are plenty of reasons to rank their sustainability efforts.

For the launch of its fully-compostable snack bag, Frito Lay Canada is working with local composting programs to ensure that new SunChips bags are handled properly when disposed.
 

Hurrah! Our book Death & Sex (by Tyler Volk and Dorion Sagan) won first place in the 2010 New York Book Show in the general trade nonfiction category, one of the most competitive! This is a design and production award and apparently very unusual for a trade book to win without a jacket. Congratulations to [...]

A project that aims to harvest energy from a potentially disastrous situation in Rwanda's Lake Kivu aims to turn risk into reward, and bring much-needed power to a developing economy.

A nonprofit called Kopernik hopes to connect the creators of the low-cost, innovative and life-saving inventions with the people who need them most.

Wisconsin’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (online at JSOnline.com) sat down with Gordon Edgar, the Big Cheese of cheese at San Francisco’s worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative and author of Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge, to discuss Edgar’s punk roots, his upcoming Midwest tour, and of course—cheese. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Q. Define cheese monger. A. A cheese [...]

March 9, 2010 – There is a revolution brewing in this country. Some are already attempting to define it… perhaps as a means of shaping it. Perhaps as a means of preventing a no-sided melee which no one can win. — Mark my words and mark them well. A left-right labelling of this revolution will mark the failing of our species and condemn millions of Americans to death and suffering. Labels kill us, especially orthodoxies and labels from the old paradigm. This must be a revolution by all the people who get it as opposed to people who don't. — If it isn't, then the bad guys will win again as they always have when it's been framed as a left-right issue and they controlled both sides. The left has failed us as badly as the right. Just the use of the words "left" and "right" closes off a myriad of possible life-saving options. Conservatives and liberals starve and die in exactly the same way. They go homeless the same way. They bleed the same way. The Powers That Be would much rather have us fighting each other rather than them.

In the Civil Rights and Vietnam era, declassified documents and court cases showed that the ONE thing the FBI was more afraid of than anything else was an alliance between blacks and whites: where civil rights met the Vietnam war. As soon as Matrin Luther King started speaking against the war he was marked for death. – Now, the one thing The Powers That Be are afraid of is any alliance between so-called left and so-called right. That's the only alliance; the only coalition that can possibly save lives and stand up against what's coming. So any time I see crap like "from the left" or "from the right", I shudder. Left and right are meaningless terms to me because I live outside the paradigm — at least in my head.

Anybody who fights the infinite growth economic paradigm is my brother and my sister. Ron Paul is fighting it. Cynthia McKinney is fighting it. And I, for one, am not going to chop either one of them off — and hurt all of us — in the process… because of a freaking label. These are two of the bravest and most honorable people I have ever met. — I am reminded of something attributed to Albert Einstein; "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

Collapsenet will be a voice for and a place where those from either the left or right can come in safety. It will welcome Libertarians, Socialists, Anarchists, Secessionists, Democrats and Republicans. It will embrace all colors and all religions. The only thing we will require is an understanding and agreement that we want to save our own lives, and as many of our fellows' lives as we possibly can.The labels left and right are as doomed as the old paradigm. When the dust settles there will be no conservatives or liberals; only survivors. And in whatever ways we oppose it, our only enemy will always be ONLY the infinite growth monetary paradigm. Our vision will not be distracted. Combat vets understand that the political beliefs or color of the man watching your back, handing you water or ammunition; or carrying you to safety means nothing. He is your brother. All of us at Collapsenet pledge this to you. We want to carry as many of you to some measure of safety as possible because all those labels everyone is so fond of don't mean shit anymore. If you filter your thoughts that way and don't know how to stop it, the bear's going to get you.

There are two labels, however, that will survive. They are "honorable" and "effective".

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The technology giant has implemented three best practices as part of a sustainability pilot project that are netting huge savings in materials and transportation costs as well as waste management.

This slideshow from Cisco Systems outlines some of the steps the company has taken to save $24 million per year as part of its sustainable packaging pilot.

Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, wants us to brace ourselves for some pretty serious shocks. The financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession that followed was just a signal that our unsustainable growth economy has stopped climbing, plateaued, and in all likelihood will continue to stagnate or trend downward until [...]

Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, wants us to brace ourselves for some pretty serious shocks. The financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession that followed was just a signal that our unsustainable growth economy has stopped climbing, plateaued, and in all likelihood will continue to stagnate or trend downward until [...]

Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, wants us to brace ourselves for some pretty serious shocks. The financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession that followed was just a signal that our unsustainable growth economy has stopped climbing, plateaued, and in all likelihood will continue to stagnate or trend downward until [...]

Carbon management software firm Enviance unveiled a new product Tuesday to help companies comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting rules.