GreenerPolitics

This is pretty neat: micro wind at a fraction of the cost:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1214137061?bctid=1233395616

By Showwei Chu, CBC News

Janna Levitt and her husband had no idea that more than 2,000 people would walk through their door when they listed their environmentally friendly house in this year’s Doors Open Toronto, a popular free tour of landmark buildings and cultural spaces.

But that’s how many came to see and hear first-hand the benefits of owning a green roof, a traditional flat roof that incorporates vegetation.

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16 August 2007 - Today’s Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport majority report into water supply options for South East Queensland produced recommendations that don’t go far enough, with only the additional comments by Greens Senator Rachel Siewert applying the evidence before the Inquiry and recommending that the Traveston Dam be scrapped.

“The Senate inquiry was presented with overwhelming evidence that Traveston Dam is a high-cost, high-risk approach to South East Queensland’s water supply, which will not ease the current drought” said Australian Greens lead Senate candidate for Queensland, Larissa Waters.

“Yet the majority report and the additional comments by other Senators all stopped short of calling for the dam to be scrapped. Greens Senator Rachel Siewert made a call on the evidence and recommended that Traveston Dam should be stopped.

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I found this video as well; William McDonough is covering some of the same ground; updated.

William McDonough, the author of the book, Cradle to Cradle, challenges us to create the sustainable economy.  These two clips from the video ‘The Next Industrial Revolution’ hold the keys to our future: positive, hopeful, creative and challenging.

This first video is a taste of the the thesis of the the longer video, which is 45 minutes long. The thesis of this video is the fundamental thesis of creating a sustainable society: how do we love all the children of all species for all time,