A sustainable global energy strategy, first proposed by Buckminster Fuller in 1969, to interconnect the abundant renewable energy resources between nations around the world. Benefits include: reducing pollution and climate change, reducing poverty and hunger, and increasing trade, cooperation and peace.

WaterAid aims to ensure that even the world’s poorest people have access to safe water and sanitation. How WaterAid and their partners seek to use simple, sustainable solutions to address water and sanitation problems.

Earthships: Future-proof buildings - sustainable, self-sufficient homes — and the 50 or so that are scattered outside the New Mexico town of Taos, constitute the Earthship Greater World community. As Michael Reynolds says: “If water is falling from the sky, and it is on the majority of the plant, it’s crazy not to catch it.” [...]

Matt from “Where the Hell Is Matt?” demonstrates his Google Earth listing of his favorite places he went during my travels. Just download Google Earth and the KML file, then start exploring.

An animated film illustrates the environmental and human damage caused by electronic waste while offering solutions to this global problem.

About one in every three colonies left their hives but never came home. We set out to discover what was plaguing these hives and learned how non-commercial beekeepers care for and keep healthy bees alive. Bees are responsible for pollinating every third bite of food we eat.

Basil is a wonderful herb which can be grown on an indoor windowsill with minimal effort or skill. For about $2 at a local farmer’s market, you can grow nearly a year’s worth of one of the most popular herbs in the world.