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Posted by Astrid in Biodiversity, Community, Culture, Eco Interior Design, Energy, Food Revolution, Green Living, Human Scale, Indoor Air Quality, Natural Reources, Paradigm Shift on 12 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Future of Design
Posted by nancyastrid in Biodiversity, Community, CSA, Culture, Facts, Farmer's Markets, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Natural Reources, Seasonal on 02 8th, 2009 | No Comments
The Future of Food – Vertical Farming
With 85% of the human population living in urban settings by 2050 – there is not doubt that a new way of raising our food, must be underway. Lucky for us, a genius by the name of Dickson Despommier, has already created the solution for us – vertical farming. Despommier is a professor...
Posted by nancyastrid in Biodiversity, Community, Food, Green Living, Local, Natural Reources, Paradigm Shift, Sustainable, Water/Oceans on 01 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Salmon Protection in Sonoma County
The WATER Institute web video, Your Salmon Creek, is available with some amazing underwater footage of habitat restoration and rehabilitation. This is a, below-the-scenes, look at the historic reintroduction of the endangered Coho Salmon to the Salmon Creek Watershed in Sonoma County, CA. Experts...
Posted by nancyastrid in Alternative Transportation, Biodiversity, Community, Cradle to Cradle, CSA, Culture, Energy, Farmer's Markets, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Green Building, Green Living, Green Washing, Homesteading, Human Scale, Landfill, LEED, Life Cycle, Local, Natural Reources, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Plastic, Regenerative, Seasonal, Sustainable, Thoughts, Toxins, Victory Gardens, Waste, Water/Oceans on 01 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Calender of Events in The World Of Green – Winter 2009
January 15 - Green Building Workshop (Brooklyn, NY) Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Location: LC 400, Dibner Library Building 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY A workshop that brings industry researchers and developers of green buildings technologies, entrepreneurs, investors, representatives from...
Posted by nancyastrid in Biodiversity, Culture, Energy, Facts, Green Living, Natural Reources, Paradigm Shift, Sustainable, Thoughts, Water/Oceans on 12 9th, 2008 | No Comments
Lawns
In recent decades, there has been an anti-lawn movement; stemming from the desire to wake up Americans to the reality that keeping up with the Jones’s, truly isn’t a satisfactory way of living. So, what is wrong with lawns, anyway? Aside, from being water and energy intensive, lawns are usually...
Posted by nancyastrid in Biodiversity, Facts, Farms, Food, Green Living, Homesteading, Natural Reources, Sustainable on 12 3rd, 2008 | No Comments
Its all in the Soil
Did you know that soil was alive? Many people do not realize this…… Soil is a critical and dependent element to our survival. Healthy soil goes hand in hand with a healthy environment. “The nation that destroys its soil – destroys itself” (Roosevelt 1937) The first...
Posted by nancyastrid in Alternative Transportation, Biodiversity, Community, Cradle to Cradle, Energy, Farmer's Markets, Food, Green Living, Green Washing, Human Scale, Landfill, LEED, Life Cycle, Local, Organic, Seasonal, Thoughts, Waste, Water/Oceans on 08 15th, 2008 | No Comments
Nancy Astrid Lindo Interviewed By: Angela Orrechio of Good Life
What is green building and what is your role in it? Who are your customers? Green Building is a movement that has stemmed out of the need for man to return to our state of balance with the natural world. We began civilizations, building green, using natural and local materials. It has been through time...
Posted by nancyastrid in Alternative Transportation, Biodiversity, Community, Culture, Energy, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Green Building, Green Living, Homesteading, Human Scale, Landfill, Local, Natural Reources, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Regenerative, Seasonal, Social Responsibility, Sustainable, Waste on 07 14th, 2008 | No Comments
Viva Permaculture!
So what is Permaculture? Permaculture, stems from the two words: Permanent Culture I like to define it, is the design of human settlements in accordance to the laws of nature. So what does that mean? It uses the wisdom of learning from the self perfecting system of nature to build and provide in ways,...-
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In the Green Consulting facet of our work, the basis of our projects is on educating our residential and commercial clients on the elements of integrating living and working sustainably and incorporating a richer way of life.
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