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How I Created a Tool Library in Under Two Hours

October 19, 2011

Image credit: hisperati, used under Creative Commons license.

When I say “I”, I mean “we”. And when I say “tool library”, really I mean lending network. But the core lesson still stands. Sharing is really easy, and often all it takes is broaching the…

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"Communities Are More Important Than Nations": Bill McKibben

October 19, 2011

From community-owned solar power stations through edible landscaping in parks to feed the homeless to the power of local investing, we’ve featured plenty of localized, community-based responses to climate change and peak oil. But how does community a…

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David Suzuki Visits Occupy Montreal: "We’ve Got To Take Back Our Democracy" (Video)

October 18, 2011

Screengrab from Why? Simply Because video; Footage by JobBook News; Photos by Kimberley Mok

Prompted by my curiosity about the global movement known as Occupy Wall Street, on Saturday I headed out to the Occupons Montreal / Occupy Montreal protests, w…

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Utility "Representatives" Explain Their Profits to the Public (Video)

October 18, 2011

Image credit: FOE UK

When we hosted a live chat with Solarcentury’s Jeremy Leggett, he was unequivocal in describing the relationship between fossil fuels and clean energy as nothing short of “civil war”. Interestingly, he also singled out many utili…

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How to Start a Tool Library: Just Do It

October 18, 2011

Image credit: The Center for a New American Dream

When I posted a video about Portland’s tool libraries, one commenter wished that he had something similar in Boise—and I am sure he was not alone. The idea of being able to borrow tools you rare…

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Danny Glover at ‘Occupy Oakland’: Our Politics Have "Failed the Fragile Planet We Live On"

October 17, 2011

Image: YouTube screenshot

‘Lethal Weapon’ Star Joins Occupy Wall Street Movement
Danny Glover, I can assure you, is most certainly not getting too old for this shit. The actor gave an impassioned speech at Occupy Oakland last Saturday, as part of the…

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Co-Housing Meets Commercial Farming and Cheese Making (Video)

October 17, 2011

Image credit: The Perennial Plate

From co-housing for aging boomers to co-housing in urban Brooklyn the idea of building intentional communities that combine shared communal space and property with private dwellings has a lot going for it, from a gre…

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Protesters Occupy Berlin Until Evicted by Police (Photos and Video)

October 16, 2011

Image: Corner of a Life/CC BY 2.0

As the Occupy Wall Street Protests spread around the globe, masses marched on the parliament in Berlin and the banks in Frankfurt, as well as in capitals across Europe. But at the end of the day in Berlin, police mov…

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Al Gore Strongly Supports #Occupy Wall Street

October 14, 2011

Photo: World Economic Forum, Flickr, CC BY-SA

The #OccupyWallStreet movement — which has now spilled into Brooklyn and inspired protests across the world — is gaining some high profile supporters. So far, notable backers have included Mark Ruffalo,…

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#OccupyWallStreet Moves Into Brooklyn

October 14, 2011

Occupy Brooklyn Begins
The #OccupyWallStreet movement is now world famous. ‘Occupy’ protests have sprung up in hundreds of cities around the world, from Boston to Reykjavík to Seattle to Madrid. But there’s at least one culturally significant, hugel…

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