Two Thumbs Up — Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute; fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
Kerala, India: Precedent-Setting Zero Waste Action Plan
Grassroots community action group Thanal has achieved a milestone in their fight for healthier, cleaner communities in India. The Zero Waste approach doesn’t just seek to find a place to store waste—it designs it out of the system.
Climate Change Conference Summary and Thoughts
Environmental activists flocked to Bali for the UN climate change conference. Several of our own advisers were in attendance to ensure that the critical grassroots role in this world dilemma was not overlooked.
Ecotourism for El Cacao Honduras
El Cacao is a poor, rural community in Honduras where people struggle to make a living. There was no sense of real possibilities for change until the community decided to develop its own ecotourism project to create a brighter future for this village of thatched-roof, mud-floored huts, for the children with big bellies swollen from […]
Green Leap Forward
Environmentalism is China’s fastest growing citizen movement. Beijing isn’t cracking down on these new activists—it’s empowering them.