If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.The UN Committee on Climate Change’s thirteenth convention is being held in Bali and starts on Monday. The big issue this year seem to be getting a draft framework, or “roadmap” for the global approach to climate change so that it can [...]
Entries Tagged as 'author: vanessa'
Are AgroFuels Really The Best Solution Out There???
December 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: author: vanessa · climate change · energy sources
Wanna Be Sick?
November 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Watch this thing tick away for a while….
Amount American’s Have Spent on Oil in
2007
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Tags: author: vanessa · environmental preservation · oil
Just How Much Is A Rainforest Worth?
October 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Ecuador is the home of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the Yasuní National Park. The park is 9,820 square kilometers primarily covered in Amazonian rainforest. Underneath this rainforest lies the Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini oilfields, which if tapped by Ecuador, could produce around $700m a year.
Here’s where President Rafael Correa poses the question to the international community at [...]
Tags: author: vanessa · environmental preservation · oil · trees
RVeggin’
October 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Scurrying across campus today in the rain, I came across a 32 foot RV.
For those of you that don’t know it, I’m in New England. I moved out here for 9 months to get a master’s degree in Sustainable Development at the School for International Training, a tiny school up on a hill in southern [...]
Tags: author: vanessa · transportation
To LEED Or Not To LEED?
June 21st, 2007 · 12 Comments
So, guess what!? Here’s another topic we would really love to hear your opinions on. (Imagine that!)
We are at the point (and actually a little beyond the point) with some of our projects where we need to make decision whether to try for a LEED certification or to pass. Our strong commitment to creating eco-urban [...]
Tags: author: micah · author: vanessa · green industry · housing · neighborhoods · projects · the good project
Vanessa Shares Some Sound Bites From Africa
June 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Vanessa’s at TED:Global in Tanzania this week.
Here’s a roundup of blogging about the debate between Bono and Andrew Mwenda about the merits of giving aid to Africa…
Here’s the TED Blog which showcases current blogging coverage of TED:Global.
Below is a short list of info bites and quotes Vanessa sent us yesterday.
Zip Zap Circus from South Africa. [...]
Tags: TED · africa · author: jason · author: vanessa
Dirt Under My Fingernails…
March 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Today’s blustery weather makes me just a tiny bit concerned because over the weekend I spent an afternoon tilling the ground in my limited back yard for a lovely veggie garden and I’m hoping my delicate seedlings are holding up!
There’s a unique delight spending an afternoon outdoors, hands in the soil, creating neat little rows [...]
Tags: author: vanessa · random musings
There’s More Than One Way To Get Your Local Produce
February 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I found some more CSA info for you all. Most of this was from a good Sacramento Magazine article that outlines the local produce options from grocery stores, CSA’s, and farmer’s markets….
Here are some farms in the Sacramento region that offer CSA programs:
Soil Born Farm, Sacramento; (916) 486-9686Soil Born delivers boxes of produce to its [...]
Tags: author: vanessa · food · resources · sacramento
Another Eco-Urban Project: The Washington Area Goes Deep Green!
January 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
So we are all very excited around here about one of our upcoming projects. In fact, I feel a little guilty being the first to get to post about it! For now we’re calling it our Discovery Center but a few other names are bouncing around that might be more fitting. The Discovery Center is [...]
Tags: architecture · author: vanessa · projects · the gallery · west sacramento
Just And Lasting Change
January 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Just something I read and liked recently…
The only meaningful counterbalance to corporate globalization is communities. The momentum of globalized trade cannot be stopped, bit it can be redirected. Communities are small enough to be able to understand their own self-interest, yet large enough to be able to access resources and generate efficiencies of scale. When [...]
Tags: author: vanessa · books · green living · quotes · random musings


