Sustainable Route

Ryanne Hodson, Ashley's sister, has a fantastic website also about sustainable issues: RyanIsHungry.com She did an interview with Ash, check it out!

Here's a note from Brad: "In an average year with 12 inches of rainfall, we harvest over 100,000 gallons of rain a year within the soils of our 1/8-acre site and the surrounding public right-of-way. Yet we (household of 3 people, plus many more us...

Brad is like the Willy Wonka of the desert! In Tucson he transformed his urban land into a food producing, wildlife attracting, Sonoran desert island. He has also working to plant over a thousand trees in his neighborhood which act as natural air c...

I first met Andrew when I attended Ecosa back in 2005. That was my first exposure to permaculture and rainwater harvesting. Andrew has been living in, and working on, a project in Prescott called the Eco Hood. He also has been working with Dharma D...

We hung out with Tom Bender to talk about the spiritual side of sustainability and architecture. Check out his site here: TomBender.org As well as his wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bender

Yestermorrow has so many great classes from basic carpentry to designing your own house. I mashed together our interview with Dan Eckstein and some of the things we explored with him on Yestermorrow's campus.

When we hit up N.O. we stayed with Hillary Strobel of Replant New Orleans. Words-of-Use (as defined by wikipedia): Bioremediation: any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the environment altered by ...

I attended The Ecosa Institute in the Spring of 2005. It's a 'sustainable' design program, but as Tony points out in the video, they welcome a variety of people whether they are currently students or not. Ecosa focuses on real projects with real c...

Diane Wilson is the author of An Unreasonable Woman. Check out part one below if you haven't already!

Diane Wilson is the author of "An Unreasonable Woman". We met up with her in Houston at a book signing and she talked about her incredible story. I read her book on our way to Texas and was floored by the events that took place. It reads like fict...

I've taken many-a-hike at Merk Forest and also stayed in their cabins for a few Vermont winter nights. They are a fun place to visit with kids because of all the farm animals and also a well managed forest and trail system. We spoke with Ken Smith ...

We did these interviews with Megan and Pat of The Community Solution during a thunderstorm! They made a fantastic video about Cuba that you can order off their website. Cuba – A Peak Oil Country Cut off from trade by the United States, in 1993...

We visited Paperhand Puppet Intervention in Durham, North Carolina. They collaborate with the local community to perform large shows, march in parades and facilitate school experiences as well as participate in protests and generally make some old f...

Food Share is an organization in Toronto, Ontario. On their website they explain wonderfully: At FoodShare we work on food issues "from field to table" - meaning that we focus on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, pro...

Burlington Currency Project is a really cool organization making their own money that only circulates in the local economy. There are a lot of great resources on the BCP website to learn more about how BCP works as well as theories and info on all...