Big Changes at SD GreenLife

by sdgreenlife on December 7, 2011

by Laura Silver
Editor & Founder

Please excuse our digital dust as we remodel for a new look and purpose. San Diego GreenLife is adding GreenNetwork to its name — and becoming a better resource by adding new information and a host of networking features to help green-oriented individuals, organizations, and businesses find each other.

San Diego is one of the greenest cities in the nation, yet as individuals and groups we often seem to struggle in isolation. In my role as the coordinator of the Bright Green Future Conference the last three years, I have received great satisfaction from the number of people who have found kindred spirits and formed coalitions with others they met at the conference.

But why should that kind of synergy have to wait on serendipity or special events? Why not have a central resource to find like-minded groups and individuals to join or partner with?

(Dangling participles aside), no reason I can think of! So bear with us as we strive to become that resource. Once our first iteration is complete, we will welcome your suggestions on how to improve it.

You can find this site at sdgreenlife.com and now also at sdgreennetwork.com

More to come, San Diego!

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Did you get electronics or furniture for the holidays that came wrapped in polystyrene or EPS foam (“Styrofoam”)? Most jurisdictions still don’t accept it for recycling, but here is San Diego you have a couple of options for recycling clean, dry, non-food foam:

1. Drop it off at any EDCO Recycling Buyback Center for recycling

2. Donate it to Waste to Waves for recycling into eco-surfboards!

San Diego County Waste to Waves Drop Off Locations, as of 1-18-2012, (see their web site for daily updates):

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Artist’s Straw Bale Studio Rises from the Ashes

by sdgreenlife January 8, 2012

East County Magazine, October 30, 2011 (Deerhorn Valley) Four years after the Harris Fire burned down their barn, Kim Hamilton and Rob Deason celebrate completion of a new art and music studio made with straw-bale construction and hands-on help from friends, family and neighbors.  Since the community also lost its former gathering place at a local [...]

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Help Decide the Future of San Diego!

by sdgreenlife January 7, 2012

How will future generations live, work, learn and play in the Greater San Diego Region? You can be part of the process to decide by giving your input through the Show Your Love San Diego Survey, a project of Our Greater San Diego Vision and Move San Diego. After more than a year of in-depth research, [...]

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New Partners for Smart Growth Conference Feb. 2-4, 2012

by sdgreenlife January 7, 2012

Title: New Partners for Smart Growth Conference Feb. 2-4, 2012 Location: San Diego Sheraton Hotel and Marina Link out: Click here Description: The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference has made it a primary goal to bring you together with multiple disciplines to explore how partnerships can provide the political will, technical expertise, and the [...]

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Sustainable Manufacturing 101: Department of Commerce Offers Free Training Materials

by sdgreenlife January 1, 2012

Take advantage San Diego! In early December, 2011 the Department of Commerce posted free, downloadable Powerpoint presentations designed to introduce manufacturing businesses to the benefits of operating more sustainably. The training module provides an overview of several sustainability-related topics along with links to additional resources.The materials are intended for use by any employee or as [...]

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Reuse & Repair Stakeholders Hold Exploratory Meeting in CV

by sdgreenlife December 14, 2011

Location: City of Chula Vista’s Public Services Building North located at 276 Fourth Ave, building 300, Room B11 Time: 2:00 p.m. At the August 2011 CRRA conference, Pål Mårtensson presented his experience with creating and operating a model Reuse & Repair facility in Göteborg, Sweden. This successful facility has inspired community members to consider discussing [...]

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Saving the Environment Saves More Than the Earth

by Laura Silver March 5, 2010

Copyright Laura Silver I was intrigued by a comment I heard on a radio show about retirement planning a while back. The guest said it that was impossible to determine how much money to plan for unless you had some idea of what would make you happy in retirement—that most people tended to look for [...]

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A Different Kind of Tree House

by Laura Silver November 30, 2009

  Copyright Laura Silver I’m mildly obsessed with trees — real trees, images of trees, and almost anything with a leaf motif. So it’s no wonder I keep going back to my November/December 2007 Natural Home magazine, with its article on Chrysalis Farm — a sustainable home designed by whole-tree architect, Roald Gunderson. Gunderson’s designs use [...]

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Growing Green Communities: Eco-villages & Co-housing

by Laura Silver November 16, 2009

Copyright Laura Silver One of the things I like best about the green-building movement is that it looks at more than carbon footprints, energy use, healthy and renewable construction materials, (all of which are both necessary and laudable). It also rethinks the basic tenets of why and how we build. Green construction has taken the concept [...]

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