Creating the Green, Sustainable Community: Visions & Success Stories Out of Oregon

Stories of real people, their visions to shift us into a planet that works for everyone and builds community that's fun, alive and uses all resources, ideas and energy for the benefit of all, while walking in balance with Mother Nature. All stories publishes in newspapers, magazines and websites of the region in the past decade.

PART I -- THE GREEN-SUSTAINABLE HOME
Building Green: Solar, wind and geothermal power, energy and water conservation, rain catchment, new building materials, cob home, clay-straw, glasscrete, strawbale; green communities, zero energy, EarthShip, lo-flow water, eco-lawn, overcoming bad solar access, eco-timber, eco-cabinet making, solar tubes, making a backyard wildlife habitat, eco-brokers, the LEED home, the Green-Sustainable Home: green insulation, the straw-clay home, the StrawJet creates cheap new building materials, the LEED home, FSC cabinetry, low flow water, wood-burning stoves, the SIP wall, Kachelofen, green heat pumps, saving water, drip irrigation, the strawbale home, micro-inverters, the green subdivision, domes.

PART II -- THE GREEN FOOD CHAIN
A Green Food Chain: the Food Project to feed the working poor, organic farming, training farmers, canning-preserving food, chocolate is good for you, a community garden, the new generation of passionate young farmers, training new farmers, growers markets, permaculture, The Green Food Chain: The Food Bank, the Community Garden, Farm to Schools, Eat Your Yard, Teaching New Farmers to Farm, chickens in town.

PART III -- GREEN TRANSPORTATION
Converting a car to biofuel, supporting a biking workforce, using CarShare, making biofuel, the electric bike, charging stations for electric cars, the electric car show. Green Transportation: a handmade electric car, the Trikke, making biofuels, recycling shoes, the VeloMobile,

PART IV -- WASTE & ENERGY
The end of the plastic water bottle, green burial, major utilities green up, human-generated power, the On-Demand water heater, cutting energy bills, dumps into power plants, WindSpires, retrofitting windows and doors, green waste.

PART V -- THE GREEN COMMUNITY
The K-S Ecoregion, Earth Day's Carbon Neutral, Gifting as the step beyond barter, an individual crusade against global warming, creating community currency, creating a green university, retrofitting old schools, creating an urban nature center, creating a Time Bank, top green trends, the Plastics Roundup, social networks, end of the plastic bag, no VOC, green gifting.

PART VI -- PERSON, PLANET, PLACE...PEACE
Saving wilderness, aquifer preservation, presenting Al Gore's message,
climate change as a natural cycle.