In the most recent Five Friday Facts, Justin provided information on the growth in cities outside the developed world. He points out that increasing populations pose challenges for sustainability. How can we support a global population in denser cities? The argument tends to go that cities are more sustainable since they use less land to [...]
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Are Cities Really More Sustainable?
February 5th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability 
Tags: Cars, Collaborative Consumption, Energy, Food, Population Growth, Urban Planning 
No Comments »Today’s Moment of Zen
January 31st, 2012 Justin Manger No, not that moment of zen. This one is closer to the real meaning inherent in that phrase, which has to do with the notion that wisdom (along with compassion) is expressed in the everyday through yourself, people, and nature, if you can reach a certain state of perception. I’m not a practioner let alone [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Conservation, Japan, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Conservation, Environment, Nature 1 Comment »Growing Up in LA
January 29th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few weeks ago I was talking with another transplant from Los Angeles who also became interested in environmental sustainability. She asked what it was that got me interested in the topic. I told her that I never was big on going outside – not like I am now at least. I’ve hypothesized before on [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Environment, Los Angeles, Prius, Tesla 1 Comment »Efficiency is not the Key to Sustainability
January 22nd, 2012 Eric Wilson Justin has written a few posts about the importance of getting outside; one titled “Encroachment” and the other “The Set Aside“. This post follows up, but takes the idea in a slightly different direction.I realize the title of this post may be heresy, but hear me out. The other day I was in a building [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Nature No Comments »My Issue with Keurig Coffee Cups
January 15th, 2012 Megan Stilley The new rage is K-cups, also known as Keurig individual cups of coffee. Not only do these individual coffee cups have individual packaging that is not recyclable, it also has its own coffee maker that you have to purchase in order to use the K-cups. The idea of these coffee cups bothers me, deep down to [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Megan Stilley, Waste 6 Comments »Not Your Average Bus Trip: How “Green” is that Green Bus? Part 5 (Final)
January 14th, 2012 Heather Perry This is the final installment of the green bus series. Read all five parts here. Standing as one of the most memorable and defining experiences of my life, the adventures of our green bus brought us back to Tahoe, right where we had started. From Hannibal, Missouri we continued to make a giant loop around [...]
Out with the New in with the Old
January 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few months back I had the opportunity to tour three LEED certified projects on three consecutive days. All three projects achieved LEED gold and were located in the greater Denver area. The following op-ed is a bit of a reflection on these visits and what it means to build green. They are listed in [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Site Visits Tags: Denver, EPA, LEED, Waste No Comments »Christo Projects Are Awesome, But Use the $50 Million for Something Else
January 3rd, 2012 Justin Manger From the art world comes the latest wild idea from Christo, the artist who has wrapped trees and draped orange awnings on a winding path through New York City’s Central Park. Last month, federal regulators gave the go-ahead for a $50 million project to install an enormous piece of fabric over the Arkansas River in southern Colorado. As the [...]
