Category Archives: enablers
More Use – Less Stuff part 2
I’m just back from Green Festival buzzing with new ideas, renewed energy and a few new connections to followup. See if you can find the common thread on just three of the exhibitors: http://sharingsolution.com http://rentalic.com http://cohousing.org. Yes, back to my earlier post about getting more from less. I believe this is a powerful meme that […]
More Use – Less Stuff
I just spent the last three days at the annual Bioneers Conference. The closing speaker was Ann Leonard – creator of The Story of Stuff. Her talk inspired me to put together a few thoughts and a ‘presentation’. The fastest path to sustainability, to meeting the goals of Kyoto, 350.org, etc is to make exponentially […]
GreenPlumbers: The Future of Plumbing
I sat in on a presentation by Steve Lehtonen at PG&E this week and learned about a terrific new initiative: GreenPlumbers® was developed by the Master Plumbers’ and Mechanical Services Association of Australia. (MPMSAA). The enormously successful training and accreditation program is being introduced in the United States through an exclusive agreement between MPMSAA and […]
Getting Things Done
Making the changes necessary to avert catastrophic climate change requires us all to ‘get things done’. In 2007 I read David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” and took on many (if not all:) of his recommendations. A ‘weekly review’ is one of his key recommendations, and I get a weekly reminder with a tip to focus […]
Zerofootprint Gets Calculated About Climate Change
“It’s hard to tell, at first glance, whether Zerofootprint is a serious business or a feel-good environmental action group. The answer, easily discovered before long, is that it is likely both…the company as two separate entities: A non-profit umbrella group, the Zerofootprint Foundation, and separate for-profit arms that handle building out the calculator for cities […]