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Sustainable Settings: Learning From The Land

Post Independent
May 3rd, 2012

Sustainable Settings, an entrepreneurial nonprofit, sells produce at the Aspen Farmers Market and raw milk from its new, solar-powered dairy to people who invest as shareholders in the Guernsey herd.

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Ethikus Offers A Groupon-Like Service To Find Ethical, Sustainable Businesses

Christian Science Monitor
May 2nd, 2012

New York City startup Ethikus provides vouchers for small businesses whose practices embody principles of sustainability.

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Climate Leadership From American Colleges and Universities

Huffington Post
April 30th, 2012

In 2007, a small group of visionary college and university presidents gathered to form the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Five years later they have achieved some remarkable results.

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Textile Recycling Added To Sustainability Festival In Amherst

Hampshire Gazette
April 26th, 2012

Even though people frequently use collection boxes to drop off used clothing for agencies that distribute and sell it, many of the items still end up in landfills and incinerators. The Recycling and Refuse Management Committee is trying to change that, and also help the Fisher Home Hospice Shop and the Amherst Survival Center’s free store, by sponsoring Amherst’s first textile collection at this year’s Sustainability Festival on April 21.

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Enhancing Indigenous Knowledge In Rice Terraces

Our World 2.0 Yobo Member
April 24th, 2012

Mountain rice terracing is practiced widely in parts of the Asia-Pacific. Rice terraces are deeply intertwined with indigenous cultures, traditional practices and the ecology of many mountainous areas.

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10 Quick and Easily Apps for Green Living

Taiga Company Yobo Member
May 3rd, 2012

With growing eco awareness sprouting more and more environmentally friendly options, those living a busy and sustainable lifestyle can take their green on the go.

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Can There Be “Good” Corporations?

Yes! Magazine Yobo Member
May 1st, 2012

When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.

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Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World

PJ Star
April 27th, 2012

For the Brockman family, agriculture is a sustainable way of life grown on smaller acres than the typical mass producer of corn and soybeans. The family plants hundreds of vegetables, fruits and herbs on the kind of farm that, 15 to 20 years ago, was about as common to find as a local community college student rushing off to operate a farm.

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Coming Together For Environmental Restoration In Haiti

Other Worlds Yobo Member
April 25th, 2012

In honor of Earth Day, we run an interview with Yves-André Wainright, who discusses ways that poor governance and the role of foreign donors have contributed to the country’s environmental catastrophe. He also lays out a blueprint for what could turn the situation around, effectively mobilizing both government and the population to begin restoring the environment.

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A Former Chicago Meatpacking Plant Becomes a Self-Sustaining Vertical Farm

Good
April 24th, 2012

Had Willy Wonka had been fascinated by industrial ecology instead of cocoa beans, his factory may have looked something like The Plant, Chicago’s first entirely self-sustaining “vertical farm.”

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