This watchdog group for environmental health and justice takes on industry and government over PVC, formaldehyde and other common but potentially toxic building materials. Find out what’s wrong with these materials and how you can make safer choices at healthybuilding.net.
Categories: Green homes · Health · Indoor air quality · Recommendations
Path to Freedom video brochure. In this 18-minute web video, meet Jules Dervaes and his three children, eco-pioneers who have turned their Pasadena, California, home into an integral urban homestead. Highlights include alternative energy systems, chickens, ducks and miniature goats, and an edible landscape that produces three tons of organic food each year on one-tenth of an acre. pathtofreedom.com
Categories: Chickens · Energy · Food · Green homes · Recommendations
Dam Nation, edited by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Laura Allen and Oskar July Cole. In this anthology of essays, the politics of water meets how-to manual for becoming a greywater guerrilla, all in the spirit of restoring the water commons. greywaterguerrillas.com
Categories: Recommendations · Water
The Return of the Solar Cat Book by Jim Augustyn. Greening your house doesn’t mean you have to check your sense of humor at the door. In this update to his 1979 solar energy classic, Augustyn mixes cat wisdom and humor with science and eco-politics. solarcat.com
Categories: Energy · Recommendations
The Mouth Revolution. 
Don’t miss this flash movie featuring mouths around the world demanding real organic food. Created by Free Range Studios, the folks behind Store Wars and The Meatrix. Sign on to the mouthifesto against GMOs, pesticides, artificial ingredients and trans fats. Your mouth will thank you. mouthrevolution.com
Categories: Food · Recommendations
EcoBabes 2007 calendar. Showcasing twelve beautiful, inspiring women who are changing the world. Proceeds benefit Sonoma County, California’s Climate Protection Campaign. ecobabes.org
Categories: Community · Global warming · Recommendations
Making Better Concrete: Guidelines to Using Fly Ash for Higher Quality, Eco-Friendly Structures, Bruce King, 2006. Everything you ever wanted to know about working with high fly ash concrete. A how-to manual for engineers, builders and architects, although green geeks of all types will find it a good read. greenbuildingpress.com
Categories: Global warming · Green homes · Recommendations · Remodeling
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community, H. C. Flores, 2006. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares ideas for transforming city backyards and suburban lawns into “paradise gardens” that provide food, increase natural habitat and help us reconnect to the earth and our communities. chelseagreen.com
Categories: Food · Gardening · Global warming · Recommendations · Water
An Inconvenient Truth. You still haven’t seen this film about Al Gore’s crusade to wake us up to our planetary emergency? What are you waiting for? Info and theater locations at climatecrisis.net.
Categories: Global warming · Recommendations
The Great Turning by David C. Korten, 2006. Korten argues that we’ve reached a critical juncture. We can join together now in what he and others call the Great Turning, setting the stage for a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice and peace. Or we can stand on the sidelines, lamenting an unprecedented collapse of environmental and social systems that may be known to future generations as the Great Unraveling.
Categories: Community · Global warming · Recommendations
