Penn State \"awards environmentally friendly energy contracts to enhance its existing green initiatives\". Very cool - 20% renewables in 5 years!
Bioplastics! This marketing site includes information on the first bio-plastic CDs, made of polyacetic acid (PLA), bioplastic water bottles, and more!
Business Week article on the OrganicMyth.
What the Earth would look like without people... supposedly. The author contends we'd be forgetten relatively quickly, assuming we were all whisked away in a sudden alien capture. Why would the effect of other individual creatures' disappearance be considered disastrous, but ours as aclimactically mild? Is it perhaps a hidden arithmatic of next-best analyses? The consequences of our disappearance compared to the effects of our presence might seem mild in contrast to the elimination of the helpful paws of "non-meddling" creatures...
It might be hard to Nuke' these bacteria. They survive kilometers underground and essentially harvest the chemical products that result from radiactivity emitted by Uranium deposits. Instead of harvesting radiation from the sun, they get it from the Earth, and thus enable an entire ecosystem of bacteria to survive off their waste products, because they've evolved to use chthonic radiation. May the biosphere grow on!
http://www.ecomanor.com/ A website in progress as the million-dollar-plus EcoManor is built.
Dreamtime Village - Wisconsin Zine Collective working toward sustainability
http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/mycova.html
http://www.legaltorrents.com:7070/
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC34/Gilman.htm
Bacteria as a treatment for Childhood Eczema
http://www.fractal.org/Training-Interactie-Management/Triple-Helix.pdf - Universities as innovation cultures for sustainability?
Common bacteria can produce electrically conductive nanowires I know it's not a book, but this quote from the lead reasearcher says volumes 'Earth appears to be hard-wired.'
http://www.deepleafproductions.com/wilsonlibrary/texts/mckenna-wetlands.html
http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/ DIY WIFI
http://www.instructables.com/id/E0T6AVT19OEP286NG5/
SustainableSpam - an open question
http://www.tamizdat.org/about.php
http://www.binarywolf.com/249/ - DIY wifi for the center?
http://www.reseaucitoyen.be/wiki/index.php/Welcome
http://www.american-buddha.com/dec.evolution.htm#THE%20DECLARATION%20OF%20EVOLUTION
Doyle Proposal to become Affiliated With STS
Da Grasshopper Lies Heavy A Valis remix with Peacefeather
Egyptians seemed to use nanotechnology in cosmetics over 2000 years ago.