Unless otherwise credited, all photos and drawings are my own or from the following
Creative Commons websites:
general interest websites
Fast Company: The Sharing Economy
Grist.org - intelligent and irreverent news
www.monbiot.com, by George Monbiot
Climate One -
promoting climate conversation
Vivid Economics - an economy think
tank
Project Syndicate covers economics, sustainability and innovation
Architects Climate Action Network ACAN
mobility and transport
EcoPassenger.com (for travelers in Europe)
Yehuda Moon, cycling comic strip by Smith and Griggs
Streetsblog.org - latest news on low-speed travel
Jane's Walk - citizen-led neighborhood walks in the spirit of Jane Jacobs
Streetfilms is an organization making short films on slow-speed-travel; their latest film is on prioritizing bike traffic in Utrecht
shopping and consumption
Ecolabel Index, Project Label, GoodGuide
Be a Localist.org
Sharable.net - navigate the alternative economy
home composting and apartment composter
Waste-Free Kitchen cookbook
How to donate food in the US and in Switzerland
BBC clip on food waste statistics
How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life - a Vox film explaining the carbon cycle
Circular - NPR TED Radio Hour on the circular economy, with innovations in rejuvenation and recycling
Better World Shopper supports ethical consumption
The Economist on capitalism and democracy
The Conversation on corporate activism
New York Times on local vs. global
Sustainababble on how to be eco-friendly
plastic and waste
Tossed Out video by NETNebraska
BBC podium discussion "How Do We Cure Our Plastic Addiction"?
EU declares war on plastic waste in the Guardian
UNEP hopes for treaty banning plastics
Trash Hero - volunteers cleaning the world
History of Wastefulness BBC radio documentary series
Global Recycler - articles on recycling in the manufacturing industry
built environment
Global Alliance for Building and Construction
Walk Out Walk On - communities living in the future
natural environment
Waterkeeper Alliance for protecting the world's waterways
The Permaculture Research Institute
swale.org - a floating food forest for New York City
Paris: turning streets into gardens - a BBC short film on residents turning their sidewalks into herb gardens
The Land Institute in Kansas information on agriculture and ecology including: 10,000 Years of Agriculture.
Natural Areas Conservancy of NYC
BBC Tree Database to plant the right tree
Minority hiking groups: Outdoor Afro, Black Girls Hike, Wild in the City
media series and podcasts
My Perfect Country and My Perfect City BBC radio documentary series with stories about civil society working well
People Fixing the World - a BBC radio documentary series showcasing solutions to local problems
www.theguardian.com//The Story of Cities
Neighbourhood, a BBC documentary series on neighborhoods around the world
Global Optimism - an optimistic discussion platform, check out their podcast Outrage and Optimism
Scene on Radio podcast on democracy
miscellaneous
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Interview with Jaron Lanier on Vox.com
The Right to Speak on the NPR TED Radio Hour: interviews with Jeff Howard and Elif
Shafak
How Loving Extremists will Defeat Hate: Russell Brand interviews Deeyah Khan on listening
The Room of Requirement - NPR This American Life from December 28, 2018, on special libraries
Hip Hop Forestry - music by environment professor and rap
artist Dr. Thomas Easley, aka RaShad Eas
ecosia is a non-profit search-engine that donates to forestry projects, read a BBC article about it.
climate change
The Guardian article on climate court cases
Grist article on Juliana vs United States
communitopia - don't just sit there
interview with Jeremy Lent on resource use and ecological transition on HousePlanningHelp.com
NewClimate Institute - Berlin-based think tank for climate and sustainability policy
Granthan Institute - climate research at the London School of Economics
Global Optimism - an optimistic discussion platform, check out their podcast Outrage and Optimism
go New Jersey!!
NJ becomes the first state to require climate change
in K-12 cirriculum
NJ makes environmental history with the adoption of an environmental justice law
books and films
The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein
Demain (Tomorrow) - the film
Think Like a Commoner, by David Bollier
The Logic of Sufficiency , by Thomas Princen
Green Metropolis by David
Owen
Our Only World by Wendell Berry
Who Owns the Future by Jaron Lanier
I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
Our Towns by Deborah and James Fallows
Rambunctious Garden - Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
Making Motherhood Work, by Caitlyn Collins
All We Can Save - Truth, Courage, and Solutions
for the Climate Crisis, essays by women, A. E. Johnson and K. K. Wilkinson Ed.
pandemic replanning and workspace
2 BBC articles:
- Covid recovery plan 'must tackle climate change'
- Could the coronavirus crisis finally finish off coal?
Ai Weiwei in The Atlantic:Time Has Lost All Meaning
Brian Lehrer discussed reopening NY schools on his WNYC podcast.
more from the New York Times:
- America Needs an Emergency Meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club
- Coronavirus Threatens the Luster of
Superstar Cities
TED Radio Hour npr podcast on healthy air-flow in buildings
David Graeber on the BBC Rethink podcast
Making
Motherhood Work, by Caitlyn Collins
a portable Internet on BCC's People Fixing the World
captialism and consumption
Mariana Mazzucato researches economic policy at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London.
Her conversations and interviews are worth listening to.