What is Living Green?

Low-Impact Living reduces environmental and social impacts by using a product or service or adopting a behavior that:

  • Reduces energy use & uses renewable energy
  • Contains recycled material
  • Reduces packaging
  • Is less toxic
  • Is durable, reusable
  • Conserves & protects water
  • Is derived from plants
  • Is organically grown, sustainably produced
  • Is locally produced
  • Is socially responsible
Hotlinks to Additional Internet Resources:
Building on the Kyoto Protocol: Options for Protecting the Climate :  new link — (256 pages) Experts from around the world explore options for strengthening the Kyoto Protocol and Climate Convention, including proposals to engage both developed and developing countries in protecting the climate. Edited by Kevin A. Baumert with Odile Blanchard, Silvi Llosa and James Perkaus.
Chatter Creek Mountain Lodge Construction :  new link — Photo journal of mountain lodge construction at Chatter Creek, deep in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Follow the impossible task of building a 9300 sq. ft log building in one short summer. Editor’s note–we at Otherpower.com thought we lived in a remote area until we read this web log. Wow!
Does the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy Make Sense? :  new link — A Technical, Economic & Environmental Justification for the Priority of Source Reduction and Recycling – John Schall, October, 1992
Society For Conservation GIS:  new link — The SCB is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity. The Society’s membership comprises people in the conservation and study of biological diversity: resource managers, educators, government and private conservation workers, and students.

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