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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
ICLEI USA launches magazine Planet Earth
The mission of ICLEI USA's new carbon neutral publication, Planet Earth magazine, is to highlight today's environmental challenges and innovative solutions around the globe at the local level.
Never before has the phrase, 'think globally, act locally' been more relevant; Local governments are recognizing that their communities are often the first to feel the impacts of worlwide issues such as climate change and they are taking their responsibility to the planet in stride.
In the US, cities, towns and counties are taking the lead to address climate change, energy independence and sustainability. And they have turned these challenges into opportunities: Their pioneering solutions are helping to make their communities cleaner, more economically prosperous and more liveable.
Planet Earth captures the ideas, best practices and success stories of ICLEI's U.S. Local government members—more than 600 strong—and highlights the global impact of thie locally-based revolution.
In short, Planet Earth strives to convey the idea that 'local action moves the world' into words and images.
A digital copy of the first edition is available online.
For more information about the magazine, please contact:
Don Knapp
Senior Communications Officer
ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA
436 14th St., Suite 1520
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: (510) 844-0699, Ext. 315
Fax: (510) 844-0698
Website: www.icleiusa.org
Senior Communications Officer
ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA
436 14th St., Suite 1520
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: (510) 844-0699, Ext. 315
Fax: (510) 844-0698
Website: www.icleiusa.org
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Communities Magazine: Education for Sustainability
Web Features
The residents of an eco-oriented, education-focused intentional community and demonstration site wear many hats, both public and private.
After several years teaching about community in the abstract, an anthropologist and environmental studies teacher finds that direct student engagement with intentional communities provides the spark needed for personal inspiration, connection, and the potential for social transformation.
A permaculture teachers hits upon a gold mine of effective methods for enlivening her teaching—by drawing from the principles of permaculture itself.
Also in This Issue (Print Version Only)
· NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
· TEACHING HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS IN COMMUNITY
One-day workshops, two-week intensives, two-month apprenticeships, season-long internships, work parties, work exchanges, and other hands-on learning programs all offer unique benefits and challenges for both participants and intentional community members. A veteran teacher and natural builder shares his experiences from Emerald Earth Sanctuary.
· TO LEARN SUSTAINABILITY IS TO LEARN COMMUNITY: An Example from South Portugal
Strained by difficult economic and ecological conditions, farmers Claudio and Fernando discover new avenues toward prosperity and land restoration through alliances with a peace community dedicated to regional renewal.
· SUSTAINABILITY: REFLECTIONS FROM AN ECO-WARRIOR
Bruce Davidson
A cofounder of Sirius Community traces his path to a broadened understanding of sustainability—one which depends, more than anything else, on a change of consciousness.
· ECOVILLAGES AND ACADEMIA
Daniel Greenberg
Ecovillages offer ideal campuses for sustainability education, but cannot fulfill their potential if cloistered from academia. Building bridges between the two is essential for the survival and relevance of both.
· LEADERSHIP FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: Living Routes in Action at Huehuecoyotl
Giovanni Ciarlo
An action learning program at a Mexican ecovillage offers students real-world lessons in project implementation and community service, while also benefiting residents and neighbors.
· OLYMPIC-SIZED COMMUNITY
Satyama Dawn Lasby
The sustainability coordinator for the biggest event in the world realizes that catering with washable dishware and eliminating bottled water from the green rooms, while laudable, are ultimately just drops in the bucket.
· INTENTIONAL "COLONIES" AND TROPICAL SUSTAINABILITY
Jon Kohl
Intentional communities in developing countries often seem like intentional colonies instead, appealing to the rich and the mobile but inaccessible to local people. Effective sustainability education requires an alternative model.
· TOWARDS A SEVENTH GENERATION
Understanding Israel
Tracing results within her own community, a lifelong educator suggests that time spent teaching children now to love and respect the earth will help us all move towards a sustainable future.
· PERMACULTURE AND HOLISTIC EDUCATION: A Match Made in Heaven...and Earth
Paul Freedman
The founder of Salmonberry School finds that permaculture and holistic education share many common principles, values, and analogous practices, with great potential for integration.
· BUSTED, ALMOST BLUDGEONED, POSSIBLY BROKE: Hard Lessons from the Trenches of Sustainability Education
Making your community a home base for sustainability education programs can bring unanticipated challenges, potential pitfalls, and learning experiences no one thought they had signed up for. A survivor shares cautionary tales and tips.
· CAR-REDUCED AND CAR-FREE RURAL COMMUNITIES
Greg Ramsey
In the quest to create eco-communities that can lead us toward a sustainable future, nothing is more important than reducing car dependence—and fortunately, we already know how.
· BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: BUILDING FOR HEALTH: accommodating people with environmental intolerances in intentional community living
Julie Genser
People with environmental intolerances could be a perfect match for intentional community living if their needs were better understood and met there. Are communities willing to educate themselves and perhaps stretch their definitions of “sustainability” in order to accommodate the environmentally ill?
Voices
· LETTERS: No Avatars Desired, 2010 Cohousing Conference, The Sustainable Human
· PUBLISHER'S NOTE: AFLOAT IN CHOPPY SEAS: Though Our Support is Hot, Our Profits are Not
· COOPERATIVE GROUP SOLUTIONS: OPEN MEETINGS: WORTH THE RISK?
· CREATING COOPERATIVE CULTURE: AN INVITATION, AND A MUSTACHE ESCAPADE
Twelve-year-old Jibran has always lived with fuzzy boundaries between “family” and “community.” They became even fuzzier when he came home to discover his mom’s positive pee test. (From Issue # 146 - Family)
Though “baby having” had not been a consensus decision, a small community embraces a newborn, survives his infancy, and bonds like any other family: doing each other’s dishes, snuggling on the couch, and fighting over who gets a shower before the hot water runs out. (From Issue # 146 - Family)
HOUSEHOLDING: COMMUNAL LIVING ON A SMALL SCALE
Especially in financially uncertain times, those seeking the advantages of intentional community living can often find them within a single shared house. (From Issue # 144 - Community in Hard Times)
Easing themselves in and out of each other’s houses, yards, and chicken coops, members of White Hawk Ecovillage find traditional borders becoming more porous. (From Issue # 146 - Family)
Reviews of two great books on community living, one on life in a convent with surprising insights even for the most secular, and one on the history of utopian experiments in Oregon. (From Issue # 146 - Family)
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Habitat World magazine
| Current issue: March 2010  | Feature articles: Take a Picture, Take a Trip Submit your Habitat photos and win a trip. First Families…Families First Families find decent, affordable housing around the world. Paid in First Habitat families who have finished paying their mortgages. Learning Lessons For students, a Habitat house can have benefits beyond its walls. “All for a Purpose” Habitat Kenya builds houses with displaced families. Online Extras: Video: Kenya Slideshow: All for a Purpose | In every issue: HabitAtlas Windows on the Work Field Notes Foundations Coming Home Download full issue: PDF version of the March 2010 Habitat World (15MB) | |
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Below, you’ll find past issues of Habitat World magazine.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sustainable cities - Good practices
Good practice
Cities and towns that respond effectively to climate change through sustainable place making will be healthier, more socially cohesive, economically resilient and more beautiful.Many places in the UK and elsewhere are already integrating policies and practices, and there is much to learn from them. We have collected examples of good policy and practice across our six themes:
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Lessons in Conservation
Lessons in Conservation (LinC) is the official journal of the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP), and is currently available in electronic format. NCEP is a collaborative project of the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and a number of institutions and individuals around the world. NCEP seeks to improve the practice of biodiversity conservation by improving training in biodiversity conservation.
All materials in LinC are peer-reviewed, and are a part of NCEP teaching modules which include: a synthesis document summarizing a conservation-related topic, a visual presentation with notes and discussion questions, a field or laboratory exercise with accompanying solutions, and a relevant short case study with teaching notes illustrating particular themes from across NCEP modules. If you plan to use these materials in your teaching, you may wish to download easily modifiable versions of the materials found in LinC, along with additional teaching modules, from the NCEP website (http://ncep.amnh.org).
June 2009
Issue 2
December 2007
Issue 1
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Global Eye
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