Why One Community is Creating an Open Source Vermiculture Toilet

One Community is incorporating vermiculture bins into our composting toilet plans as one way to share with the world how to add a compost bin into any human waste disposal plan. Doing this will take composting with worms… Read More

The Benefits of Creating a Culture of “How Can I Help” and “Build On Top Of”

One of the greatest learnings about leadership and team management that we have gained from operating a project of the magnitude and scope of One Community is the value of creating a culture of “how can I help”… Read More

CFL Bulbs vs Incandescent Light Bulb Efficiency

Have you been introduced to the new free CFL lightbulbs from the power companies and ever wondered what kind of research has been done to demonstrate the benefits of CFL bulbs vs Incandescent bulbs? Paul Wheaton started thinking… Read More

Donald Sadoway: Reinventing the Battery

Professor Donald Sadoway says we can’t bomb our way out of our current energy situation; we can’t conserve our way out or drill our way out either. Instead we must invent our way out by working together! Today… Read More

Snatam Kaur: Long Time Sun – Thank You!

Every once in a while something comes along that touches a place deep inside you. For me, Snatam Kaur’s song “Long Time Sun” off the album “Grace” had this effect on me and I raised my son singing… Read More

Gaiacraft Permaculture

Gaiacraft is a group of dedicated individuals whose purpose is to bring natural permaculture and sustainablility back into the sphere of common knowledge.  Formed in 2002, they have been teaching workshops, courses and full certification classes, bringing our world closer… Read More

The Atlantis King: Word Music

We just had to do a blog post on Atlantis King because he is way too entertaining to pass up. When watching this we thought subtitles would really have been nice, so we took some notes and here… Read More

Permaculture Principles at Work

Permaculture is a design science based on 3 simple ethics: care for the earth, care for people, and share the surplus. Erik Ohlsen from Permaculture Artisans teaches how to permaculture classes through Earth Activist Training (EAT). The goal… Read More

Bjarke Ingels: Sustainable Architecture Evolution

Bjarke Ingels is founder of the Danish sustainable architect group BIG out of Copenhagen. His creations are not typical 2 dimensional architect designs but rather futuristic designs like something found in Hollywood. In fact, Hollywood has even copied… Read More

Life in a Day the Film

Life in a Day is a gift; a once in a lifetime opportunity to see life from hundreds of different perspectives across the globe. Life in a Day shows the daily life of people from 192 countries as… Read More