Building a custom "sustainable" house, if you call $1.1 million sustainable living.

A free community for gardeners, by gardeners! Freedom Gardens is sowing the seeds of Victory Gardens for the 21st century. Facebook meets the Farmer’s Almanac: A social networking site for backyard pioneers and urban homesteaders who want to fight soaring food prices and global warming by growing their own food. At FreedomGardens.org, novice and expert growers from all over the world can gather to post success stories, ask questions, and challenge one another to ever-increasing levels of self-sustained living.

Here’s how Texas solved the problem of highway litter. They did some research and found that the biggest culprits were 18- to 35-year-old males who drove pick-up trucks and liked sports and country music. The threat of penalty fines didn’t work; nor did appeals to the young men’s sensitive natures about the harm done to local wildlife. So the Department of Transportation ran an advertising campaign that recruited Texas’s sporting and country-music heroes, from Lance Armstrong and Chuck Norris to Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett. One advert had Mike Scott, the Houston Astros pitcher, pick up some litter and—using his famed split-fingered technique—hurl it at a roadside trash can. Cue massive explosion, followed by the catchphrase, “Don’t mess with Texas”.

Greenbox Technology™ is creating an interactive energy management platform that enables households to save money and reduce their carbon footprint.

Orion is a bimonthly, advertising-free magazine devoted to creating a stronger bond between people and nature.

A journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

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