Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Low Impact Development Center

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A non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Low Impact Development technology. Low Impact Development is a new, comprehensive land planning and engineering design approach with a goal of maintaining and enhancing the pre-development hydrologic regime of urban and developing watersheds. The Low Impact Development Center was established to develop and provide information to individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the environment and our water resources through proper site design techniques that replicate pre-existing hydrologic site conditions.

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Low impact living initiative

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Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun and save money.

They have an online forum, offer a long list of books, offer courses, etc, related to low impact living.

Low-impact living is a way of behaving and thinking that aims to reduce our impact on the ecology of our planet, on resources and on each other.

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Low Impact Housing

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Their goal is to identify and document outstanding examples low energy, low environmental impact housing. The survey is open to the full range of housing forms from single detached to multi-unit projects, community and subdivision developments, from owner-built to custom-designed demonstration projects.

Apparently it is a questionnaire style survey about different low impact housing projects.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

New Society Publishers

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New Society Publishers - the activist publisher focused on solutions and social change. Our Books are tools to Build a New Society. They help you to know the talk, and walk the talk. New Society Publishers' mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that models this vision. They walk the talk in several ways like printing on forest-friendly paper.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Breathing Earth

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A real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. It is just a simulation. Although the co2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate. Please note however that the co2 emission levels shown here are much more likely to be too low than they are to be too high.

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Lazy Environmentalist

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Josh Dorfman writes about easy, stylish and super convenient ways to green your lifestyle. He says he's a green entrepreneur, media personality, and author of The Lazy Environmentalist.

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Greenwaste Recovery

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A privately owned solid waste and recycling company that specializes in the collection and processing of residential and commercial trash, yard trimmings, curbside recyclables, food waste and construction and demolition debris. Our newly completed Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in San Jose is one of the most innovative processing facilities in the world, capable of sorting and recovering 85% of household waste. Our 85% diversion rate translates into huge volumes of material that are not buried in a landfill, but rather given new life as usable products.

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