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Every year for the past fifteen years, the Environmental Science Institute at UT Austin hosts a series of extraordinary talks by researchers and scientists who are leaders in their field. It’s called Hot Science – Cool Talks. Free to the public and often drawing crowds of well over 500 people, lecture topics range from exploring habitats, the future of 3D printing, environmental sustainability, to …
HERE is PART of the SOLUTION: A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems Most people sell this information. We are giving it away for you to recreate in your own environment. Implement these suggestions and historic practices of sustainable communities, for a better life, relationships, understanding.
Deutsche Bank Projecting A 40% Decline In NY Housing Prices – ZH Yellen’s Contradictory Message On Upcoming Rate Hikes – ZH If the Fed waits much longer to raise rates – as some institutions like the IMF want it to do – it might be forced to move aggressively once it starts. However, if it moves sooner, that could allow it to proceed …
Moving to California was a difficult but necessary choice for my family. We fought long years of drought on our farm in Nebraska, as did many in the Midwest from Oklahoma and Kansas, to West Texas. Ultimately, we could not stay and tend to the small farm that brought us food and wage, for we suffered devastating losses that put …
Thinking like a mountain is a concept used by Aldo Leopold to emphasize the ethical premise that every individual is a part of a larger interdependent biotic community, and right action can be judged by how it affects the environment. Thinking like a mountain is meant to personify the land in a way that encourages ethical consideration of the entire …
Sometimes you may just want to eat a little transgenic food, and I understand that. It is new, innovative, and a little risk is exciting, right! We could someday have glowing spaghetti that can be eaten in the dark, strawberries as big as apples that self-regenerate, and chickens with a six pack of leg-thigh combos ready for the bacon infused …
It is not often that one has to call into question whether the water in the tap, the milk from the cow, and the drops that fall from the sky are fundamentally safe to consume, but this is precisely the predicament we could find if ever there were widespread nuclear contamination of the Pacific Ocean. In March 2011, an earthquake …
ecosnobberysucks: How much water are you really using? Many of us have low flow shower heads and our toilets are using less water, but how does that compare to the water that goes into the things we use and consume every day?
How to grow 35,000 trees! This was such a fun project to watch literally be created before my eyes… The UT Tree Nursery at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower center in Austin is an ongoing effort towards…well, namely growing trees! The nursery has expanded greatly, and is now a brimming orchard housing over 70,000 trees of all types. The Loblolly …
Kittens, Ninja’s, UFO’s, OMG no it’s just Compost (by UTesi) Video produced in Austin Texas for the Environmental Science Institute. -ArtIsInFormation.org (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
I simply had to stop when I saw the Industrial County Market (ICM) in Columbus TX. It is a 100% off the grid energy node and market with many sustainability features. They have numerous solar arrays, windmills, a rainwater collection and retention system, garden center, and art, all open to the public. According to their website, the ICM conducts monthly …
