Nourish: Food plus Community
Movie trailer. What’s the story of your food? With beautiful visuals and inspiring stories, Nourish: Food + Community traces our relationship to food from a global perspective to personal action steps. Hosted and narrated by actress Cameron Diaz, Nourish features interviews with best-selling author Michael Pollan, sustainable food advocate Anna Lappé, chef and author Bryant Terry, pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke, and organic farmer Nigel Walker. Nourish celebrates the role of good food in creating a sustainable future.

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Beyond Back Yard Sustainability
Peak Moment 178: Four years ago (episode 51), Scott McGuire asked "how much food can I grow in my back yard to feed my family?" In this episode, we learn the results, and that food supply is not an individual project - it takes a community to feed one another. Scott's garden later became a CSA (community-supported agriculture) for eight families. Scott is a co-creative gardener - he asks the plants where they want to grow. When plants participate in the design of a garden, they build in energy meridians (like acupuncture lines in our bodies) for optimal vitality and health.

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Nonprofit Sustainability
Program sustainability is a challenge for nonprofits even in the best of times. Two nonprofits, one suburban and one rural, discuss the steps they have taken to create outdoor chore programs that are best positioned to survive in the current economic environment. Colleen Fritsch from DARTS and Sandy Graves from Neighbors in Action walk you through the steps of estimating costs and capacity, identifying stakeholders and establishing collaborations in order to create programs that can thrive.

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Sustainable Futures, Monteverde, Costa Rica
This ten-week summer course of study is designed to offer students the opportunity to live and work on ecological and social projects in a rural, but rapidly developing region in Costa Rica. Details at http://www.larch.umd.edu/current/abro... This is a multi-disciplinary program designed for students from various disciplines, including architecture, planning, landscape architecture, resource management, and international development. Students participate in a seminar on sustainable development, enroll in Spanish language classes, and take an intensive studio/internship with one of the many organizations in the Monteverde zone working toward sustainability. http://psla.umd.edu

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Learning About Green Roofs
Dave Epstein learns from Ed Snodgrass, an expert on green roofs and a speaker at the 2009 New England Grows exhibition and educational conference, how green roofs are changing the urban and suburban landscape.

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Climate Action Camp Liege
It is time for real action. Tens of thousands demonstrated for a socially just and effective climate policy in Copenhagen. Thousands of activists tried to enter the conference venue during the Reclaim Power Action in order to push for another, socially just climate agenda. In the light of the political situation, the global movement for climate justice is gaining momentum, favouring alternative and real solutions.

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Endangered Species Condoms the impact on Population
Making responsible decisions about family size can go a long way toward halting habitat destruction. Hooked on Growth director Dave Gardner volunteered to help the Center for Biological Diversity make sure people have the right tool in their hands to save the polar bear. Human population growth is at the heart of the alarming rate of biodiversity loss. For more information about the upcoming documentary, Hooked on Growth, visit http://www.growthbusters.org

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Earthkeepers and Sustainable Branding
Timberland's Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Timberland, speaks in an interview with Sustainable Life Media's Mario Vellandi on topics including: social media, brand stories and content that resonates with customers, what works and what doesn't. Additionally, Mike explains how Earthkeepers isn't just a shoe, but also a brand platform for authentic and credible communications with stakeholders and the public on Timberland's corporate responsibility commitment and environmental stewardship efforts, and what they care about as a company. A human relationship with the great outdoors based on respect, love, and adventure. Learn more about Sustainable Business & Design at: http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com

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Sustainability Must Be Profitable

Theresa Lehman discuss LEEDS and what it means and how green buldings save energy and other operational efficiencies (50% of the cost over life of a building. Sustainability must be profitable, otherwise people wont' do it.  The new generation is looking for renewable energy.

Theresa Lehman, Director of Sustainable Services

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