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"15 Things You Can Do About Global Warming" (pdf)
"10 Things You Can Do About Global Warming (Yes, even if you're not yet an adult)" (a booklet for children, grades 4-8)
"Beat the Heat with Passive Cooling"
"Edible Landscaping" (online resource list)
"Going Organic" (pdf)
"Greening Your Office"
"Greywater soaps and shampoos"
"Growing Your Grassroots Community: Creating Environmental Change in Your Neighborhood" (pdf)
"A Low Carbon Lifestyle" (online resource list)
"Obtain a Yield" (pdf)
"Raising Children to a Climate Change Future"
"ReLocalizing Your Urban Lifestyle " (pdf 365K)
"Soil: Smooth or Chunky?" (pdf)
Solar Cooking (online resource list)
"The Timeline to Sustainability"
"Use Sustainability as your Yardstick"
"What We Can Do: The 5R's"
ARTICLES BY TOPIC
BUILDINGS AND HOMES
CONSUMERISM
CULTURE CHANGE
Community (pdf)
Local focus (pdf)
FOOD
GARDENS
Edible Landscaping (resource list)
Medicinal/Culinary herb garden
GENERAL
Global Warming (pdf)
Low Carbon Lifestyle (online resource list)
Self-Sufficiency versus Sustainability
What We Can Do: The 5R's
TRANSPORTATION
ReLocalization (pdf)
Carbon credits part 1, part 2, summary chart
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bookS
Environmental Change-Making:
How to Cultivate Environmental Paradigm Change
in Your Community
(Cathedral Center Press, 2008)
by Joanne Poyourow and
The Reverend Peter H. Rood, Jr.
Read more about Environmental Change-Making here.
Legacy: A Story of Hope
for a Time of Environmental Crisis (VBW Publishing, 2005)
a vision of society's transformation toward a greener, more Sustainable future.
"Legacy ... is an education in Sustainability set in fiction."
-- Southern SierranPreview Legacy at Google Books.
Read more about Legacy here.
Blog
'The Transformation Wave' - Environmental news and discussion with a view toward Sustainability. The full extent of my musings, on Sustainability, society's journey, Positive Environmental News, What Can I Do?, urban Permaculture, my organic edible landscaping garden, childrearing toward Sustainability, and other topics. Blog features:
* What Can I Do? action items, lifestyle tips, and commentary about making environmental and social change more than just a good idea ... bringing Sustainablity to life.
* Transforming a Life - 'field notes' as I strive to live more Sustainably while raising a family in the midst of Los Angeles
* Positive Environmental News - a pick-me-up for the activist's spirit: purely the good-news stories about environmental and social change
RESOURCE LISTS
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Photo credit: Cottage Garden by Susan McManus, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.