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Michael Pollan — Knight Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism — explains why we need to transform our relationship with food: what we consume, how and where we produce it, and more. A radical new food policy is required if we are to resolve our energy, health, and environmental issues…

Serious Sustainability…

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Visualize world peace, plenty of water, and food for all.
-Bruce

This wonderful article talks to how we can rethink our buildings and the way we thrive in them. Can your home be a Green castle that not only improves your health, but also gives back to the environment? Here are a couple of excerpts and the link.

In-joy,

Bruce

Structures so green they give back to the environment
By Lisa Selin Davis, Plenty Magazine

Forget simply cutting a building’s footprint. A new wave or architectural thinkers wants to create buildings that help regenerate the planet like living organisms.

“The building sector is really the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the country and the world,” says Edward Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions produced by new construction. Today, buildings consume up to 76 percent of the United States’ total electricity and emit 43 percent of our greenhouse gases. And the same mistakes are repeated in the 5 billion square feet of built space created nationwide every year.

Illustration credit to June Key Delta house

But now, the next phase in the history of green building is underway. A band of visionary architects, designers, engineers, and builders have recognized how far we’ve strayed from the principles that informed our earliest architecture. They’re harnessing both advanced and ancient technologies to dream up structures that make even the current standard of responsible building—the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system—pale in comparison. While LEED certification measures and rewards a reduction in energy use, for instance, the architects behind the next-generation, beyond-LEED structures, called “carbon neutral” or “regenerative,” are aiming for designs that use no energy at all—to be energy positive or net-zero. The green building of the future doesn’t just do less harm to the environment; it improves it. It won’t just use less water; it will collect and treat it. It won’t just force air; it will filter it. And it won’t just save energy; it will create it. Buildings are not only about to breathe like people—they’ll also give back like good Samaritans.

Full Article

Here is a heartfelt plea from a native brother for everyone..

HEARTBEAT - Robby Romero

-from the Album: “NATIVE CHILDREN’S SURVIVAL If not now, when? If not you, who?”.

As the purple sunset fades
Are we really here alone
On the main street of the world
Relocated from our homes

When all that’s real
Seems so far away
Sacrificing tomorrow
For yesterday

There’s a heartbeat
Louder than thunder
Revolution is in the air
There’s a heartbeat
Deep inside our mother
Are you too cool to care

You one so clever
Never speak too soon
You one who knows better
To be sliding in and out of the room

With your friends close
Your enemies closer
Be careful now not to force her

There’s a heartbeat
Louder than thunder
Revolution is in the air
There’s a heartbeat
Deep inside our mother
Are you too cool to care

Roll back the darkness
We’ve been blind
For far too long
In this socialist,
Communist democracy
It can’t be right
When it’s all wrong

And the Spirit they could never really see
You can’t take away from me

There’s a heartbeat
Louder than thunder
Revolution is in the air
There’s a heartbeat
Deep inside our mother
Are you too cool to care

There’s a heartbeat
Louder than thunder

There’s a heartbeat
Coming up from
Deep down under

There’s a heartbeat
Deep inside our mother

There’s a heartbeat, heartbeat

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