These are the things that I find inspiring, I’m learning or reading about.
This page is always growing.
ORGANIZATIONS
#FutureForFriday | The School strike for climate is an international movement of school students who are deciding not to attend classes and instead take part in demonstrations to demand action to prevent further global warming and climate change.
GreenPeace Canada | Uses peaceful protest to work towards a greener, more peaceful world.
IFIXIT | A website with free repair manuals and instructions for fixing all kinds of things from tablets to teddy bears.
Kid At Art | Creative ways to recycle by making art.
Plastic Pollution Coalition | Plastic Pollution Coalition is a growing global alliance of individuals, organizations, businesses, and policymakers working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, waterways and oceans, and the environment.
Project Neutral | Helps you understand how your daily choices impact climate change. Take five minutes to discover your household carbon ‘footprint’ now!
Soil Carbon Coalition | A nonprofit organization wanting to advance the practice, and spread awareness of the opportunity, of turning atmospheric carbon into living landscapes and soil carbon (such as soil life, organic matter, humus, etc.).
Soil Health Coalition | Monitoring soil carbon levels and water infiltration rates at local farms over time at different sites on each farm. Connecting farmers with each other to promote health soil practices. The Soil Health Coalition of Erin is now recruiting Citizen Scientists who would like to volunteer to be trained and to measure soil and water parameters on local farms.
TerraCycle | Is a recycling company that recycles hard-to-recycle materials. It runs a volunteer-based curbside collection program to collect non-recyclable pre-consumer and post-consumer waste, and then partners with corporate donors to turn it into raw material to be used in new products.
TED | Ideas worth spreading.
BOOKS
BOOKS | SUSTAINABILITY, ZERO WASTE, ENVIRONMENT, MINDFULNESS & KIDS/ YOUTH*
The Book Of Even More Awesome by Neil Pasricha
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring
Don’t Throw That Away!: A Lift-the-Flap Book about Recycling and Reusing by Lara Bergen & Betsy Snyder*
Drawndown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy) by Laura Westra and Bill Lawson
Green Enough by Leah Segedie
Keeping Our Earth Green by Nancy Castaldo*
Make Garbage Great: The Terracycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle by Albe Zakes and Tom Szaky
Making a Difference: Reducing Garbage by Sue Barraclough*
Not your typical Book about the Environment by Elin Kelsey*
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth Cline
Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Sustainability: A History By Jeremy L. Caradonna
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
Tracking Trash by Loree Burns
Trash Talk: Moving forward to a zero waste world by Michelle Mulder*
What a Waste: Where Does Our Garbage Go? by Claire Eamer*
The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Why Being Happy Matters: Discover How The Power Of Joy Will Energize Your Life by Peter Jennings
BOOKS | OUTDOORS & FOOD
Dufferin Hikes: Loops & Lattes by Nicola Ross
Food To Grow by Frankie Flowers
From a Polish Country House Kitchen by Anne Applebaum
Oh She Glows by Angela Liddon
Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking by Dana Shultz
Naturally Sweet Food In Jars by Marisa McClellan
BOOKS | DESIGN
The Comfortable Home by Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams
The Elements Of Colpr by Johannes Itten
Frank Lloyd Wright” Windows of the Darwin D. Martin House by Burchfield-Penney Art Center
History of Furniture by Marc Hinchman
Human Dimension & Interior Space by Julius Panero & Martin Zelnik
Junk Style by Melanie Molesworth
Pale & Interesting: Decorating with whites, pastels and neutrals for a warm and welcoming home by Atlanta Bartlett & Dave Coote
Paper to Petal by Rebecca Thuss
The Well-Dressed Home: Fashionable Design Inspired by Your Personal Style by Annette Tatum
VIDEOS | DOCUMENTARIES & TALKS
The 11th Hour [2007]
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity – Full Documentary Film [2016]
Alone in the Wilderness [2004]
An Inconvenient Truth [2006]
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power [2017]
Bag it [2010]
Before the Flood [2016]
Blackfish [2013]
Blue Gold: World Water Wars [2008]
Carbon Nation [2010]
Chasing Coral [2017]
The Corporation [2003]
The Cove [2009]
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret [2014]
Darwin’s Nightmare [2004]
Debra Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials – TED [January 2019]
The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg [February 2019]
The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg [December 2018]
Earth [2007]
Flow: For Love of Water [2008]
The End of the Line [2009]
Encounters at the End of The World [2008]
Fed Up [2014]
Food, Inc. [2008]
Food Matters [2008]
Forks Over Knives [2011]
Frozen Planet
Gasland [2010]
GMO OMG [2013]
Greta Thunberg, Austrian World Summit speech in Vienna | “This is above all an emergency, and not just any emergency. This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. This is not something you can like on facebook.”
Home [2009]
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change [2016]
Human Planet [2011]
Hungry for Change [2012]
If a Tree Falls: A Story of The Earth Liberation Front [2011]
James Orsulak: Why we need to move manufacturing off-planet – TED [January 2018]
The Last Ocean [2012]
Majan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power – TED [January 2019]
The March of the Penguins [2005]
Mission Blue [2014]
More Than Honey [2012]
Moriba Jah: Why we need to clean up our space debris – TED [March 2019]
The Monsanto Papers [2018]
Naoko Ishii: An economic case for protecting the planet – TED [January 2018]
No Impact Man [2009]
Oceans [2009]
Olivia Tyler: The complex path to sustainability – TED [February 2018]
Olympia Della Flora: Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school – TED [March 2019]
Planet Earth [2006]
Planet Earth II [2016]
Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch [2013]
PLASTICIZED – Feature Documentary Film [2012]
Pump [2014]
The Rise of Vertical Farming [2017]
Stephen Lee: How to be an effective environmental ambassador – TED [May 2018]
Tapped [2009]
Tomorrow [2015]
The True Cost of Living [2015]
The Story of Stuff Project! [2018]
Trashed [2012]
Troubled Waters [2015]
Unacceptable Levels [2013]
Valentin Hammoudi: How tall can a tree grow? – TED [March 2019]
Vanishing of the Bees [2009]
Vegucated [2011]
WASTED! The story Of Food Waste [Watch online only in Canada]
Waste Land [2010]
What You Eat Matters – Documentary H.O.P.E. – Film [2018]
What the Health [2017]
Windfall [2010]
Who Killed the Electric Car? [2006]
The World In 2050 [The Real Future Of Earth] – Full BBC Documentary Film [2018]
PODCASTS & AUDIO
Coming soon!
MOBILE APPS
SHARE WASTE | Composts around the world.
OLIO | A mobile app for food-sharing, aiming to reduce food waste. It does this by connecting those with surplus food to those who need or wish to consume such food. The food must be edible; it can be raw or cooked, sealed or open.