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Verdier Solar VW
Somehow “green” has shed its hippy image and become hip, intelligent, even trendy. Verdier has done the same for the classic hippy ride—the VW bus. Not only does this camper look like a work of retro urban art, it’s also got 2008 eco cred. The hybrid engine can run on diesel and electric. It sports a 40 watt, 12 volt solar panel. It’s GPS and wireless
Darwin Design
Simple. Fun. Meaningful. Whatever you think of Darwin Designs organic cotton t-shirts, which are made with low-impact water-based dyes, they get noticed on the street (or hiking trail). Each shirt features an endangered animal and a positive succinct message: “re-think big” (under a blue whale) or “live gently” (under a sea turtle), or, our favorite, a polar bear with the tagline “start global cooling.” “Climate change is an issue we feel passionate about and this is an effective way to spread a global message on a local level,” says Darwin Designs co-founder Otto Pohl. “Every person out there wearing our shirts becomes a
Your 2009 Sustainable Resolution by Doug
January 8, 2009 | Cars • Energy • Food • Gear • Investing | 1 Thought »
It’s that time again. SustainAbler wants to know what simple change you will make to live a more mindful, less wasteful life over the coming year. Mine is quite simple. NO MORE PAPER COFFEE CUPS. I drink a ton of coffee and waste a ton of to-go cups. No more. I’m going to READ MORE »
One Hundred Percent Behind One Percent for the Planet by Doug
June 27, 2008 | Posts with Video | No Thoughts
Alongside the Vote the Environment campaign, we wanted to call your attention to this inspiring video created by One Percent for the Planet, the organization created by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, and Craig Mathews, owner of Blue Ribbon Flies, that facilitates companies donating READ MORE »
June 26, 2008 | Posts with Video | 1 Thought »
Our friends at Patagonia’s excellent blog The Cleanest Line asked us to embed this video and we liked it so much we have made it the featured vid on SustainAblerTV on our home page. “The Environment” encompasses far more than global warming and READ MORE »
The Poetry of Global Warming by Doug
June 13, 2008 | Energy • Food • Gear • Investing • Shelter • Travel | 2 Thoughts »
I had the great fortune to hear Robert Hass, this year’s Pulitzer Prize winer in poetry and a former US poet laureate, read and lecture at the 2008 Rosenberry Writer’s Conference at the University of Northern Colorado. With a sensitivity that relies on the senses themselves, Hass’ work can take on political subjects that even the most talented poets shun. And the most difficult social issue for a poet to broach with any authenticity right now is global warming, the lurking danger that has been called READ MORE »
June 2, 2008 | Posts with Video | No Thoughts
Sustainability is a tough, complex concept to define. But, at the core, it refers to trying to live a life, whether as an individual or a business, that does more good than harm. Along those lines we wanted to share this video from the TED conference. Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor talks about having the macabre-yet-thrilling experience of observe her own stroke as a scientist—but as she witnesses the clinical breakdown of her own brain dying, she comes upon even greater realizations about READ MORE »
What’s Worse than the Leaf Blower? by Doug
June 2, 2008 | Energy • Gear | 1 Thought »
I found this image by artist Daniel Britton (LINK) and all I could think was how the leaf blower may be the loudest, most-obnoxious, most useless piece of machinery in the face of the crises of rising energy prices and global climate change. I mean honestly, can you think of any resource-depleting READ MORE »
Consumption Awareness by natesimmons
April 18, 2008 | Energy • Investing • Shelter | No Thoughts
After five months with the InPower PowerView system, a software / hardware application that monitors our energy consumption and the production of our solar array on a minute by minute basis, I finally understand a comment Yvon Chouinard made at the Rocky Mountain Institute 25th Anniversary panel discussion. He was asked what was one thing we could all do to reduce our consumption and his response was READ MORE »