Tag: green consumption

Imagine a Minimalist Reality

By Everett Bogue

03.18.10, 1:31pm Comments (16)

For the last six months I've been involved in an interesting experiment: what if I lived with less than 100 things and started to live and work from anywhere?

In August of 2009, I quit my job and jumped on a plane to Portland Oregon. Read more »

Corner store CSA

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.24.10, 8:48am Comments (0)

As reported by Twilight Greenaway: A University of San Francisco professor assigns her students to increase the sustainability of a corner store called the Save More Market in the city's diverse, low-income Western Addition neighborhood. Read more »

Chris Carlsson and Tom Athanasiou Debate Cap and Trade at COP15

By Chris Carlsson

12.15.09, 6:29pm Comments (0)

I spent a week rushing about Copenhagen, trying to find my friends, get the scoops, figure out how best to understand this crazy global gathering. Read more »

America's First Zero-Net Neighborhood

By Jeremy Adam Smith

12.01.09, 3:41pm Comments (1)

If your income is at a level similar to mine, you probably sigh in despair as you read about all these shiny new eco-villages and zero-emission homes. Read more »

Pile of Empty Beer Cartons Evolves into Open Air Library

By Jeremy Adam Smith

11.10.09, 11:05am Comments (1)

It sounds like the punchline of a joke, but it's real. Read more »

Our Best Future: A Q&A with Robin Chase

By Jeremy Adam Smith

11.09.09, 6:04am Comments (1)

When Robin Chase co-founded Zipcar in 2000 using German and Swiss carsharing companies as models, many observers said that sharing cars would never take off in America. Read more »

Economics of Peace

By David Hodgson

11.02.09, 6:46am Comments (0)

The Economics of Peace conference, held October 18-23 in Sonoma, California, brought together an amazing group of people working to bring about a different world built upon a different vision of economics, an economics that serves the needs of us all. Read more »

Rachel Botsman on Zipcar and 'Unintended Consequences'

By Jeremy Adam Smith

10.30.09, 4:24pm Comments (0)

In response to Neal Gorenflo's Shareable essay on green consumption, OZOlab head of strategy Rachel Botsman made a series of terrific points that I'd like to highlight:

When people engage with collaborative systems of usage &#. Read more »

Will Green Consumption & Sharing Lead to Deeper Change?

By Neal Gorenflo

10.23.09, 11:10am Comments (8)

I had an inspiring conversation with Nadine Weil of Heart of Green and Ecofabulous at Bioneers last weekend. I know Nadine from serving together on the board of Forest Ethics, though we don’t know each other much outside of that. Read more »