Disposability Consciousness
Environmental & social justice activist Julia Butterfly Hill shows how our belief that we are separate from the whole has created a disposability consciousness.

Environmental Impact of the Cotton T-Shirt

Did you know that the average cotton T-shirt requires over 700 gallons of water to manufacture? Follow the production, use and disposal of the average cotton T-shirt in this USAgain educational video.

700 gallons of water.

Bag It (trailer)

Try going a day without plastic. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies. We see how our crazy for plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.

Zero Waste and Landfill Challenges by Will Spears

Where does your garbage go when you throw it away? Away for the residents of Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington is the Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington Oregon. Sustainable Today visited this mammoth site to see how it works and how you can limit the amount of waste that is buried. We also visited the new power plant under construction at the site that will generate electricity from the methane gas pulled from the landfill. Related subjects:

• Garbage, Landfill, methane, power, sustainability, environment

 

An Opt-out Tip from Scott McKye
If you're planning a green, meeting, make sure your pre-registration forms let attendees opt-out of receiving non-sustainable materials. Scott McKye is CEO of Kleertech and a member of the Board, GMIC.

Interviews at the 2010 Bioneers Conference

Mike and JoAnna Bresnan of Costa Rica's, Children Feeding Children, program and the change and transformation that is occurring around the world. They introduce interviews with Annie Leonard and David Orr while attending the 2010 Bioneers Conference held October 15-17, 2010 in San Rafael, California.

Filmed by Barry Heidt of GeoSpirit.tv and edited by Rob Russo.

Life Pscycle-ology - the secret life of a little mobile phone
Discover the hidden life of a mobile phone... Eric is seeing a therapist because he is suffering from an existential crises after his owner abandons him for a newer model. In this cute animation we discover the secret life of a mobile phone as the therapist takes Eric through a past life regression. This animation is part of The Secret Life of Things series which includes free learning resources on environmental issues in design and production - www.thesecretlifeofthings.com. Created by www.ecoinnovators.com.au

Stuff, Life and Cybernetics
The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard is the starting point of a discussion of the linear system that depletes forests, empty lakes, erode the land, abuses atmospher and exploits the poor in third world countries.  The Viable System Model and Management Cybernetics is used to take a hard look at the system that is producing so much waste and resource depletion in order to suggest important change

Banana Paper Reduction: Earth University : Dr. Panfilo Tabora
EARTH University of Costa Rica is a private, non-profit international institution dedicated to education, research and sustainable commercialization activities centered around agricultural sciences and the rational management of natural resources.

Their commercial banana farm is a major supplier to U.S. based Whole Foods and the agricultural waste from banana production is combined with recycled paper products to manufacture new paper for commercial purposes. The final banana paper product is aimed at such niche markets as printing presses, high-end notebooks, journals and corporate stationary.

full article: http://www.costaricafrog.com/2010/01/...

Tapped: the Bottled Water Industry by Stephanie Soechtig