ility Explained and Urban Sustainable Gardening Tips

Do you want sustainability explained? Life Around Home's William Moss provides a definition and some urban sustainable gardening tips that you can use in your own backyard. First off, William defines the term sustainable as any practice that doesn't cause long term harm to the environment. He also points out that many sustainable techniques are also more cost effective and help us to save money. Ways to practice sustainability in regards to home gardening include composting our own food scraps as well as using OMRI (Organic Materials Research Institute) certified organic pesticides and fertilizers.

The Water Pod

If we lost lower Manhatten to rising waters - what would you do? 

With Copenhagen coming up shortly, and little to promise coming from the Americans, some worry that we are on the road to disaster.  The Water Pod was set up as a project to determine whether we could viably live, sustainably and autonomously, on water.  Kind of Water World -ish, but without Kevin Costner.  Too bad - but you do get an interesting bio-dome shape.  Check out this video for more!

Kibbutz Lotan: Center for Environmental Tourism

Kibbutz Lotan is located in the Arava Valley of Israel's southern desert.

It's Center for Creative Ecology runs the "Green Apprenticeship" 6-week program, 4 times per year.

Check out www.kibbutzlotan.com for more information

Sustainably Sourced Adventure

Discover sustainably sourced beauty and adventure.