Oct 16, 2012 | Great Ideas, News
You don’t need a big backyard to grow your own organic vegetables — anyone with a windowsill can have an organic garden. When you start your own windowsill garden, your health benefits, you take a step towards greater self-reliance, and you get a...
Oct 11, 2012 | Great Ideas
Scientists estimate there’s about 200 billion tons of excess CO2 in the atmosphere. Planting a single tree eliminates one ton of CO2 every year. Embracing the World volunteers have already planted more than a million trees worldwide; let’s make it...
Oct 11, 2012 | Featured Designs, Great Ideas
I wanted to share this photo of a show stopping terrace in London!!! With no where to plant because of the concrete, the garden was created out of pots, clipped boxwood balls and hard clipped patio trees. The tops of the trees were severely clipped to create a ceiling...
Oct 8, 2012 | Great Ideas, News
The verdict is in – climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that global warming is caused by burning carbon-based fossil fuels, that to avoid a global catastrophe, we need to reduce the amount of fuels we burn, and that the window of opportunity...
Oct 4, 2012 | Great Ideas, News
The water shortage crisis is not somewhere off in the distant future, it has arrived: every minute of every day, three children die from diseases caused by lack of access to safe water. We owe it to those children and to future generations to...
Oct 2, 2012 | Great Ideas, News
Follow Teri’s blog over the next few days for specific examples for each of the following concepts. What we use What we reuse What we take What we forsake What we share What we grow
