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One Hundred Percent Behind One Percent for the Planet

by Doug on June 27, 2008

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

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Vote the Environment

by Doug on June 26, 2008

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

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The Poetry of Global Warming

by Doug on June 13, 2008

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 […]

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Stroke of Inspiration

by Doug on June 2, 2008

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 […]

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What’s Worse than the Leaf Blower?

by Doug on June 2, 2008

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

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