Biochar

As some of you know, I've become very interested in Biochar, a particularly promising soil amendment that can increase productivity and build soil health while sequestering carbon for hundreds or thousands of years. As a short primer on the subject I offer the following video.

Raymond

Plastics from Mushrooms

Instead of trying to lure the same old Big Box stores to Petaluma or Santa Rosa in the (short sighted and mostly incorrect) belief that they will increase the tax base (they really just help destroy the local small-business economy), our leaders should be looking for businesses like this to invigorate our local economic fortunes. Wake up folks! There are SO MANY business opportunities like this that actually help restore the planet and provide employment instead of encouraging wasteful and unsustainable consumption.

Eben Bayer, co-inventor of MycoBond, an organic adhesive that turns agriwaste into a foam-like material for packaging and insulation, reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture and plasma screens.

Chris Jordan's Awesome Imagery

I just watched this powerful TED talk from photographer/artist Chris Jordan and was moved to share it. His work is brilliant and very effective at helping us gain insights into our wasteful and self-destructive practices. He's also a very engaging speaker. Chris shows how photography can be used to educate and inform, and his illustrations are breathtaking.

Reinventing Fire: Amory Lovins Makes the Case

Skin Deep Toxics Database

This is one of the best sites I've found that enables folks to check out the products they use daily and rate them by their toxicity.

I think you'll be surprised by what you find.

Skin Deep Database

The Oceans are in Trouble

I urge you to watch this short presentation by coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson.



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Interview with James Hansen post-Copenhagen

Here is an important post-Copenhagen interview with James Hansen, Director the Goddard Space Science Institute.

Ross Gelbspan on Climate Change Adaptation

Here's an important message from journalist and climate change writer Ross Gelbapan.

Move your Money

Help send the megabanks that contributed to the financial meltdown a strong message: Move Your Money out of them and into community banks and credit unions. Help build your local economy.

I strongly urge you to check out this web site and view the short video. Take this simple yet powerful action. And write to your City and County representatives about shifting public monies into local banks if they are not deposited there already.

Move Your Money