AZ Sustainability has this article about a new Farmers Market coming to Phoenix January 31.

I also just found out about a new Farmer’s Market in Downtown Glendale on Saturday mornings, on Glendale Ave next to the Mad Hatter.

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Our Renewable Nation is possibly the most adorable project ever conceived to advocate renewable energy. It’s an eco-video project helmed by the McCullough family, who are traveling across the country in a vegetable oil powered VW Beetle. They’re visiting wind farms, solar installations, talking to companies developing sustainable technologies, and documenting all their interviews and travels on video.

Click Here to read more.

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When I was a little kid I made a lot of things from cereal boxes. My favorite cereal was Wheaties and when the box was empty I always found a use for it.

I found this great little tip on Lighter Footstep today:

ure, a lot of breakfast cereal comes out of bags these days. But don’t toss those cereal boxes when you have them — they make sturdy (and free!) mailing envelopes. Just cut them apart, turn them inside out, and use a little tape. You’re off to the Post Office. Thanks toTwitter user Lydia Krupinski of Pierogi Picnic for today’s tip.

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From the online edition of The New York Times:

In 2005 H. Scott Lee, Walmart’s CEO, challenged a roomful of Walmart executives. “Tell me why I should care about an endangered mouse in Arizona?”, he asked. He presented his colleagues with a radical option — the “choice” that gave the meeting its name — encouraging them to adopt a sustainability program to remake the entire company, from the materials used to build stores to the light bulbs stocked on its shelves. Although participants were conflicted, a vote on the initiative was unanimous: Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and biggest buyer of manufactured goods, would go green.

Under Mr. Scott, who is retiring this month at the age of 59, the company that democratized consumption in the United States — enabling working-class families to buy former luxuries like inexpensive flat-screen televisions, down comforters and porterhouse steaks — has begun to democratize environmental sustainability.

Today, the roughly 200 million customers who pass through Wal-Mart’s doors each year buy fluorescent light bulbs that use up to 75 percent less electricity than incandescent bulbs, concentrated laundry detergent that uses 50 percent less water and prescription drugs that contain 50 percent less packaging.

Click Here to read the entire story.

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Honda has started a blog specifically about the new Honda Insight:

http://automobiles.honda.com/insight-hybrid/blog.aspx

San Francisco resident Catherine Butler has recently started a consulting firm specifically for the purpose of helping you become an urban farmer.

Urban Edibles is an edible landscaping and permaculture design company whose purpose is to maximize productivity of urban spaces, localize food production, and promote community self-reliance, surplus sharing, food security, and ecological knowledge.

Catherine offers a free one-hour consultation. Urban Edibles can be your full-service farmer in your own backyard or if you are the dot-it-yourself type you can retain her simply for her consulting services, including:

–Backyard Farming with maintenance and harvesting help
–Complete Organic Gardening Services
–Edible Landscape Design
–Permaculture Design
–Medicinal Herb Gardens
–Habitat Gardens
–Greywater Consultation
–Rainwater Catchment
–Emergency and Disaster Preparedness
–Local Food Security
–Surplus Sharing Networks
–Consultation and Support for Chickens and Ducks
–Beekeeping Services

Visit the Urban edibles website.

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Need help deciding on a composter?

This article in the Philadelphia Enquirer covers several styles of commercially available composters.

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I found an article on Elephant Journal entitled

21 Things You’re Not Recycling

Except that most of those things we are: Things like appliances, batteries, and cardboard boxes.

The article does provide a way to recycle Tyvek envelopes, which I was not aware of.

You can always go to Earth911.com to find the nearest recycling center for almost anything.

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What makes a travel business sustainable? That’s the question challenging many businesses trying to figure out what they need to be considered sustainable.

Sustainable Travel International and Darcy Hitchcock, author of “The Business Guide to Sustainability”, have created a new sustainability assessment tool for the travel industry.

Click Here to read more.

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The Arizona Republic’s Arizona Living column today imagined what might be accomplished with an all-Arizona Cabinet for President Barack Obama.

Their pick of Secretary of Energy was none other thanour own Greg Peterson:

Click Here to read the article.

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