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Gary Boyd's List: Sustainable Living

  • Food/Gardening

    • Urban areas consume natural resources at astounding rates and in the near future 70% of the world's population will live in cities. To help save the planet from climate change and the arrival of Peak Oil, it is important that we begin turning to more sustainable ways of living. 

       Experimenting, innovating, and implementing ways to live more sustainably specifically in the cities and suburbs is paramount to preserving our culture for the generations to come. Garden Girl TV isn't just about gardening. My videos span the wide range of 21st Century modern homemaking, including cooking, arts and crafts, alternative energy, pet care, and aquaculture. 

    • Urban Sustainable Living is about using what you have to make and produce as much as you can. My gardens produce stunning amounts of food, and have become a focal point for the green culture of my inner city community. My weekend farmstand has become a place of fun and enjoyment for kids and adults from all around my Boston neighborhood. The farmstand can also bring in about $200 dollars by selling seedings for my neighbors' gardens and organic produce such as eggs, lettuce, cucumbers, kale, and whatever else is ripe. I now know one hundred of my neighbors by name. It's like bring a little bit of country back into the city.
    • Urban Sustainable Living
       
        This is my blip channel for Urban Sustainable Living. Feel free to syndicate my video' on to your own websites and blogs. Subscribe to my newsletter at www.gardengirltv.com. thanks, Patti the Garden Girl
    • The only way to avert a food crisis resulting from oil and natural gas price hikes and supply disruptions while also reversing agriculture’s contribution to climate change is to proactively and methodically remove fossil fuels from the food system.

       

      The removal of fossil fuels from the food system is inevitable: maintenance of the current system is simply not an option over the long term. Only the amount of time available for the transition process, and the strategies for pursuing it, can be matters for controversy.

    • There are reasons for hope: a recent report on African agriculture from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) suggests that "organic, small-scale farming can deliver the increased yields which were thought to be the preserve of industrial farming, without the environmental and social damage which that form of agriculture brings with it."

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  • Dec 19, 08

    Organic Garden Seed Company

    • In 1989, Seeds of Change began with a simple mission: to preserve biodiversity and promote  sustainable, organic agriculture. By cultivating and disseminating an extensive range of organically grown vegetable,   flower, herb and cover crop seeds, we have honored that mission for 20 years. 

       

        We offer home gardeners and professional growers the highest quality seed varieties, combining superior agronomic traits with beauty,   flavor and nutrition. With the relentless consolidation within the agriculture industry, declining natural resources, and the industry's   focus on crop yield and handling characteristics over food quality, our mission resonates more than ever. Our organic seeds represent a   starting point for change. They epitomize the best of our genetic heritage and are well-adapted for the low-input, sustainable gardening   and farming of the future. 

    • Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. We are a non-profit organization of gardeners dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
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       Heirloom Seeds
       Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company's 2009 catalog offers 1275 unique heirloom varieties
  • Dec 19, 08

    Organic Vegetable, Flower Herb and Cover Crop Seeds, including Heirloom Varieties

    • We are an independent, family-owned business dedicated to supporting sustainable agriculture by providing organic growers with the highest quality certified organic seed. We offer a great selection of nearly 400 heirloom, open-pollinated and hybrids seeds, including 55 NEW varieties this year!
    • Organic seeds, Heirloom seed, un-treated seed, seed saving,   seed suppliers

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    • Financial advisors tell us wise planning involves making decisions today that are oriented to our future needs. The same applies to decisions about the natural capital—like air, water, soil, plants and animals-- we hold in trust for future generations.

       

      A good example of planning oriented to the future can be found in the Canadian province where David Suzuki lives: British Columbia.

       

      In the early 1970s, British Columbia designated good quality farmland in the province as an “Agricultural Lands Reserve” (ALR).  The reserve is essential because once developed, agricultural land can never be fully recovered or restored.

      In recent years however, decisions in the province have led to significant losses in productive agricultural land where it matters most--near the major population centres, which is where most of the productive farmland is located.  
       

      Alterations to the ALR have been geographically lopsided: 90 per cent of additions were placed in the north, while 72 per cent of the land lost is from the more fertile southern part of the province.

       

      In 2006, the David Suzuki Foundation released “Forever Farmland”, which closely examined the state of the Agricultural Land Reserve at a critical time in its history.

       

      The land reserve provides a variety of services to British Columbians, including food security - fresh produce is located in close proximity to large communities - as well as many important economic opportunities.

  • Home/Personal

    • Sustainable living refers to a specific lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources. Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprints by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet.[1] Proponents of sustainable and ecological living aim to conduct their lives in manners that are consistent with sustainability, in natural balance and respectful of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology and cycles.[2] The practice and general philosophy of ecological living is highly interrelated with the overall principles of sustainable development. By minimizing their "ecological footprints" — the extent to which they create an environmental impact — proponents of ecological living hope to preserve the Earth for future generations of human beings and other life.
    • Ecosystems everywhere are under the siege of a careless or apathetic human population. It need not be that way. Each one of us can make simple changes in how we live towards a more sustainable relationship with our environment. The key to reducing the assault on the earth's fragile ecosystems is to decrease our demand for resources. Clean air and water, forests and other wild landscapes are not infinite. By driving less, making less trash, eating lower on the food chain, and being responsible earth citizens in other ways, we become less burdensome to the environment.

        

      On the other hand, by nurturing the environment we actually become positive forces for creation. I would like to share some simple, concrete tips my family and I have discovered to live lightly on the earth.

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      REDUCE
       
      The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
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      ORGANIZE
       
      Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

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      THE ONE
       
      Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
  • Dec 27, 08

    Tips for preparing for living without access to supplies in the coming years.

    • 100 Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil
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