Example called Treebanking shows sustainable business practices; good for man and beast

I found this video from a new website called Ecosector. This video is about 4 minutes long and shows one strong example of how restoration of depleted rainforest can mean jobs for the local community while providing habitat and for animals. The next video titled, "Caterpillar" shows our current idea of growth. It is not sustainable.  

GreenDIg

Social Networking proves time and time again to be a great way to find valuable resources. I can find some very innovative people and groups doing a great job of pulling together initiatives to help get our society moving toward a more sustainable path. Found this new vlog-blog called GreenDig. I plan to make this a regular stop. 

Interesting look at WalMart's green vision...

I don't know, but it sounds like WalMart is starting to get it. I really struggle with this. I hate shopping at Walmart but I applaud them for their efforts for greening the supply chain. It seems like the are willing to use their muscle to force a change for the better. I'm still not convinced they are genuine. I have to see more evidence before I will shop there.

Sustainable Design

Link to book info:

Yikes! I haven't updated my blog for several weeks! I've been lost in a new book, by Jason McLennan called, "The Philosophy of Sustainable Design." It's well written, reads like a text book. Gives the history of Sustainable Design, who the giants are in the movement, how it got started etc. It gives the big picture and historical overview making it easy to see where we are at this moment in time. …A good book for anyone trying to get a better understanding of what needs to happen to move this agenda forward.

Sundance Channel's: Friday on the Farm

What a great short film about the value of a community farm. Done in still photography instead of with a video camera. Very effective. Sundance has a bunch of green programs on Tuesday each week. Definately worth catching.

New film coming out that might be worth seeing...

WATCH THE TRAILER:http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/landscapes

This looks like it's going to be one of those films that sticks with you for a long time. Here are the places it is showing: Click here. (Guess where it is NOT showing.... FLORIDA or course. We like to hide our heads in that sand and pretend nothing is happening around us!)

Darwin's Nightmare

We watched Darwin's Nightmare on Sundance Channel after we watched "It's Not Easy Being Green." Two totally different worlds! I sat there with my mouth open the whole time as I watched "Darwin's Nightmare." It usually takes me a day or two of thinking about something like this before I can really comment. My heart went out for the solider/guard who was shown several times throughout the documentary. I also felt sad for the woman whose job it was to take the heads of the fish and lay them on the boards so they would dry in the sun. I wanted to know their names so I could write them a letter and send them some money. (My husband would laugh and say that was dumb! He's an economist. I'm the bleeding heart in the family.)

I am glad I don't eat fish! I think that being a vegetarian helps clear your mind and make you think about killing differently. It was easy for these people to kill. It didn't matter what they were killing. Some ate, some didn't...some made money, some didn't... some lived, and others died... that was the law of the jungle. It's a different jungle when the jungle is filled with herbivores.

It was apparent in this film that the difficult thing for some of the people their consciences. Their participation in human suffering was hard at times for them. But they were able to push it aside and get on with business, even if it meant exploiting the weakest and neediest children. If I ate fish, I know one thing for sure; I'd want to know where it came from and what it was doing to the land, the people and the morals of those involved. "Darwin's Nightmare" is the kind of documentary that you wish you could forget, but you can't once you have seen it. My rating: *****

I feel like I died and went to Green Heaven!

I was listening to Sundance Channel's Eco Bizz Podcast featuring a store in New York called ABC Home and Carpet. The items in the store were so scrumptiously gorgeous and eco-friendly too. It was too much! What a wonderful role model for others to follow. It just goes to show that green doesn't have to mean old yucky leftover things that nobody wants. The owner even makes sure her packaging is environmentally friendly!

Quantum shift TV: Does Organic Farming help fight Global Warming?

Click here to see the video

Citizens are talking back to the big corporations and letting their voices be heard. Here is an interesting vlog about how Organic Farming helps reduce green house gas emissions in a way that industrial farming doesn't. The author; a Canadian Farmer. This farmer, Percy Schmeiser received Mahatma Gandhi Award for battling Monsanto over genetic modified seeds and their effort to make all farmers use their product, "Roundup". Regular citizens fighting back....

Notice how Florida is absent on the sustainability map?

Click here to go to their report

I said earlier that Florida was so far behind in growing sustainable environmentally responsible business. I did find small examples recently, but BP's Sustainable global report shows that Florida is "no where on the map!"

Florida is still the backwaters, but we are takinng baby steps toward sustainability

We are light years behind the West Coast but at least we have a website and have started down the sustainability path.

Neo Green Sustainable considerations

Things to consider when buying green or from social responsible companies:

How a company designs, sources, produces, and distributes. Upstream and down stream factors. What sustainability training do they offer? Do they have a sustainability pledge? If so, what is it? What is the minimum age of their overseas’ worker? Does their building have LEED’s certification? What causes does it give its one percent to? Environmental issues, human rights issues, public health and safety? How does it help the community in which it operates? How does it treat its employees? Check the articles of incorporation to see what it says its commitment to these issues.

Supply Chain

London Sustainability Index