| Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions |
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6 Simple Ways
to Bring
the Water Revolution Home
Get tight with your water budget,
live large on dishwater, save some rain,
and get your activist feet wet (really).
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Crunch those water numbers
If you want to get serious about saving water, create
a chart to record your daily water use and measure your
conservation progress.
To start off, you’ll need to figure out
how much water you’re using on a daily basis.
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Second life for dishwater
If you live in the U.S., you probably use about 50 gallons of water per day to bathe and wash dishes and clothes. The resulting “graywater” is great for watering plants. If everyone reused their graywater, our households would suck one-third less water from rivers and aquifers and reduce their wastewater by 60 percent!
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Don’t flush it away
Americans flush 4 billion gallons of treated, drinkable water down the toilet each day. But there are other ways to get rid of your waste. For instance, composting toilets are safe, use virtually no water, and, if properly maintained, produce no odors.
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Grow a water-friendly backyard
You can turn your yard into a water-friendly garden. Richly composted organic soil stores water, keeping it out of storm drains when it’s rainy and saving water when it’s dry.
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Catch the rain
In an average year, enough rain falls on even a small roof to meet all of your basic water needs, and then some—but much of that water disappears down city storm drains. Catch your rain, and you can save water and reduce the load on your city’s storm system. Rain barrels are the simplest method.
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Cozy up to your creek
You want to protect your local waterways, but you’re not sure where to start. How healthy is your river? You can check it out for yourself.
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| Frances Moore Lappé looks at redefining power and taking it back… |
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Why Power is Not a Dirty Word
Why are we as societies creating a world that we as individuals abhor? It’s a mind-bending question.
Then what is preventing us from moving toward the world that almost all of us want? My short answer is that we feel powerless. We feel powerless to act on what we know.
What if there were a wholly different way of seeing the challenge that gets at the very root of our powerlessness, and is grounded in the latest science?
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:: GETTING A GRIP 2
Frances Moore Lappé speaks about her new book to YES! staff and friends at the home of the Kortens, April 2010.
:: UN Calls for Climate Friendly Diet
Frances Moore Lappé welcomes the recent report, and reminds us that global food problems are about justice, not scarcity. We also need to rescue our food system from corporate control.
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Life After Worry
A few years ago, Akaya Windwood made a decision not to worry. Ever. So how’s that working out for her?
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Better Than Facebook
Fed up with Facebook’s commercialism, four NYU students have created an open source, peer-to-peer alternative: Diaspora.
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Live Dangerously: 10 Easy Steps
When Shannon Hayes made a list of easy steps for becoming a radical homemaker, she didn’t realize just how revolutionary they were.
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How to Share Time
When dollars are scarce, timebanks help neighbors swap skills instead. What would life be like if everyone’s hours were equal?
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| Responding to the Gulf Disaster… |
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Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, known collectively as “The Interfaith Amigos,” have been learning and teaching together since 2001. Their focus is on who we are, not what we do or don’t have. They blog regularly for YES! Magazine: enjoy their latest thoughts below …
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The Roots of Compassion
by Sheikh Jamal Rahman
To be compassionate toward others, we first have to learn to be merciful with ourselves. |
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Beyond the Blame Game
by Rabbi Ted Falcon
How can we step into the experience of the other and learn that true dialogue is possible only when blame is shared? |
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Back to Shore
by Pastor Don Mackenzie
A drift from substance is a recurring pattern in religious life. What will it take to call ourselves back to the essentials? |
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