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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"

"Dispense with Disposables"

"Drop Yer Bloomers"

"Earth-Wiser Remodeling"

"Edible Landscaping" (online resource list)

"Got Styro Stuck in my Craw"

"Going Organic" (pdf)

"Greening Your Office"

"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)

"The Timeline to Sustainability"

"Use Sustainability as your Yardstick"

ARTICLES BY TOPIC

Backyard Wildlife Habitats

Carbon credits part 1, part 2, summary chart

Community (pdf)

Disposable goods

Greener Vehicles

Edible Landscaping (article)

Edible Landscaping (resource list)

Functional Landscaping

Global Warming (pdf)

Global Warming - for kids

Home remodeling

Local Food

Local focus (pdf)

Low Carbon Lifestyle (online resource list)

Offices

Organic Gardening

Parenting for a Climate Change Future

Passive Solar

ReLocalization (pdf)

Remodeling

Self-Sufficiency versus Sustainability

Styrofoam and Plastics

Sustainable Transportation

Sustainability

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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 Sierran

Preview 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

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Photo credit: Cottage Garden by Susan McManus, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.