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Tomorrow is Yoga Day

There's a day to celebrate everything, we've learned, and tomorrow we'll join folks across the nation in celebrating yoga. Ah, yoga. Deep breaths, mindfulness of body and soul, and relaxation from the...

How To: Recycle Plastic Caps

No matter how much we try to push plastic from our lives, there are always lingering offenders. For us, many of them are cosmetic- and food-related containers (moisturizer and ketchup come to mind), a...

The Meat Conversation: How Does Yours Go?

Water cooler talk at the office yesterday fell upon an interesting topic: meat eating. I work in an office with many open-minded folks, some of whom, like me, have outspoken qualms with today's food s...

Best Community Posts
Best of 2009

1 AT on... The Art of Sharing 2 Find and Share Fruit with NeighborhoodFruit.com 3 Community Involvement: Green Volunteerism 4 Fair Food: The Farmworkers, The Growers, The Advocates THE LIST CONTINUE...

Find & Share Fruit with NeighborhoodFruit.com

Similar to Veggie Trader, Neighborhood Fruit (still in beta) allows you to track down people to share fruit with locally. Not only does it list people willing to trade, but also lists trees growing ...

Motor City Reimagined
Guernica and Utne Reader

This may sound like an armageddon-esque movie trailer, but picture this: Detroit, with hundreds of abandoned homes and buildings strewn across the landscape, becomes a renewed community—the epicente...

Holiday Giving: Reach Out to the Animal Community, Too

We love the holidays—we're reminded daily, of how many wonderful things there are in our lives, and we're also reminded to reach out to those who are less fortunate. It's the season for giving, and ...

Call to Action: Vote to Make Your Community Greener

While we wait patiently for climate change legislation to move through the halls of the U.S. Congress, it's easy to think there's nothing we can do. But thinking that is wrong! Chances are you've got ...

Community: Picking Up After Pets

In a city as pet-friendly as ours, where dogs are just as regular at local coffee shops as their parents (no, we don't call them "owners" here), there is one problem. A recent campaign to encourage Au...

Lopez Common Ground: A Zero-Net Energy Community
Lopez Island, Washington

Off the coast of Washington State on Lopez Island is a new 11-home community designed for sustainability, energy efficiency and affordability. Key specs include straw bale construction, organic plas...

Hyperlocavore: A Yardsharing Community

Hyperlocavore is a website designed to connect people in their community for the purpose of yard sharing. Think community gardens on private property, or a DIY CSA... ...

A Summer of Service: A Different Kind of Staycation

You might be considering a staycation this summer, sticking close to home both to save green and to live green. If so, you might think about heeding First Lady Michelle Obama's call to participate in...

Green Idea: Community Toolsheds

For some communities, it's more than idea, it's a reality. Community tool sheds provide a place to borrow garden tools, often for free. Imagine the benefits of borrowed tools beyond purely the cost ...

Fence-A-Thon Block Party!
Austin

Last month we brought you an event taking place in Austin that combined both helping the community and recycling. Called the Fence Me In Project, the aim of the project was to gather the community ...

A Community Bike Space Near You

The ReCYCLEry is a local not-for-profit organization in North Carolina that provides a community workspace centered around bikes: education, salvaging old bikes, and creating bikes for transportatio...

Green, "Earthquake Proof" Sustainable Town Center in CA

California, earthquakes are a natural occurrence that residence learn to accept; just like hurricanes in the South East; and snow and ice for the those in the North. In Portola Valley, California, the...