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Self Sustaining

Documenting a Life in the Woods

Mary J. Loftus | Posted 06.15.2013 | Green
Read More: Hermit, Tools, Self-Sustaining, Thoreau, Yurt, Anthropology, Documentary Film, Ethnography, Forests, Green News
Mary J. Loftus

Ever wonder what it would be like to live deep in a forest for 50 years? Me either. But that's exactly what Harvard graduate Bill Coperthwaite has done, living a self-sustaining life in a three-story yurt in the Maine woods for more than five decades, attracting a near-cult status and fan following.

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From the Front Lines of the Great New Mexico Gas-Out

Judith Acosta | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Natural Gas, Self-Sustaining, Self-Sufficiency, New Mexico, Farm, Homesteading, Energy, Sustainability, State of Emergency, Politics, Healthy Living News
Judith Acosta

Why are we asking other people, especially corporate or governmental entities what we're supposed to do? What are we thinking? What was I thinking?

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How Two Pigs Changed Her Life

Vivian Glyck | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Uganda, Hiv, Self-Sustaining, Just Like My Child, Micro-Enterprise, Micro-Economics, Project GRACE, Aids, Impact News
Vivian Glyck

Through a loan of poultry of livestock along with training, these impoverished families can create a self-sustaining business that gives them hope and pride.

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The Human Stain on "Sustainism"

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Thoreau, Eco-System, Mega-Corporations, Egotism, Hedonism, Health Care, Agnosticism, Cubism, Biomimicry, Mother Nature, Graphic Aphorisms, Egalitarianism, Cradle-to-Cradle, Sexism, Urban Planning, Snake Oil Salesmen, Holistic, Mies Van Der Rohe, Rachel Carson, Post-Modernism, Childhood Mortality, Self-Sustaining, Tim Brown, Efficacy, The Silent Spring, Bio-Diversity, Bauhaus School, Greenwashing, Humanitarianism, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Humanism, Post-Impressionism, Impressionism, Egoism, Thudism, Green News
Michael DeJong

In its infancy, our little blue orb was a perfect place serenaded by little more than the swoosh of winds and the ebb of ocean tides. Enter humans.

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Simplicity Doesn't Mean Easy

Tri Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Easy, Environment, Sustainable Living, Simplicity, Self-Sustaining, Sacrifices, Sustainability, Green News
Tri Robinson

Things aren't always as easy as they seem, but in the case of the environment, we must realize that sacrifices must be made to achieve greater sustainability.

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