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"Yeah fpr young people doing swaps! Gves me some hope for the future. Reminds me thoigh of getting hand me downs from my three brothers!"
"Thanks for this important and informative article, Jim. Lately, I've witnessed a lot of young people embracing the practice of "thrifting" and participating in clothing exchanges. Marine Layer also takes back used clothing for reuse."
The increase in fast fashion comes with a rise in wasted resources and wasted lives, economic inequality, and environmental degradation. The increases are due in part to behavior changes. Each of us can contribute to the solutions.
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Just when customers are feeling the heat of rising energy bills, PG&E is offering to pay for a home energy storage system that benefits both the utility and you, the customer, as well as the entire community. PG&E’s Self-Generation Incentive Program…
Plastics are washing up on shorelines and waterways around the globe, and the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a swirling plastic galaxy as big as the state of Texas. Now, scientists are finding small bits of plastic in our brains and…
By this time, most of the Earth Day and Earth Month celebrations are over for the year, and the organizations that work hard to prepare for them are probably thinking about next year. SCOCO volunteers and volunteers from other organizations should…
"Jim, this is a very beautiful, poignant, bittersweet poem that is so pertinent to these times.. Thank you for writing it!"
After remodeling my wife’s childhood home in Orinda, moving there from a much-loved home in Walnut Creek, and working to make our house and property safer in a wildfire, I wondered, What are our responsibilities as homeowners, neighbors, and toward…
"A very well researched and thorough primer on cooking oil. Tnank you!"
A sustainable house and neighborhood uses water, building materials, and fuel efficiently, enhances sustainable recreation and transportation, and doesn't burn up in a wildfire. All are worthy goals that are hard to achieve for individuals and…
No, this isn’t about football. It is about saving lives and buildings in a wildfire—major factors in sustainability. My wife called the Moraga-Orinda Fire District (MOFD) and asked for a home wildfire preparedness inspection. She knew from others…
"Beautiful! Thank you, Jim! I'm listening to Appalachian Spring now :)"
Compassion is a hard sell! The word comes from the Latin and means "suffer with." Developing a compassionate heart takes time, practice, and patience, another word rooted in suffering. But compassion is essential to the work of sustainable living.…
"Me too, Alison."
"A very helpful summary, Jim! Personally, AVs give me the willies!"
