An overview of what green schools are, and what they can do to transform students and communities, as seen through the eyes of a green building activist.

David Hanson takes us on a journey of his work. He examines the social landscape in America. Dealing with the issue of terrain being shaped by humans in order to suit their needs. [All photos by David T. Hanson]

"Presentation of the Day" on September 9, 2013.

Brian Williams, CEO of Hands on Nashville and president of Go Green Home Services, shares the effort of these two organizations in reducing residential energy usage. He encourages us all to invest in positive economic environmental changes that will benefit the people and community of Nashville. 

Man on a mission Andrew O’Sullivan believes the word “recycle” to be a bad one. He poetically delves into his lifetime effort and campaigns against “the throw-away” lifestyle that we’ve become. We create waste, break it down, and re-sell it, but Andrew shows us that re-use is much more powerful and sustainable in the long run. 

David is from Citizens Against Mining Ben Lomond (CAMBL) that was formed to alert the public of the dangers this mine presents to Public Health if allowed to re-open. After the March 11th disasters in Fukushima, was a reminder to citizens of Townsville of their own history with nuclear waste and how toxic and life threatening it is, to both enviroment and people. 

Sarah Womer runs down the facts and figures of how waste in Dutchess County  is managed and about how her team at Zero to Go is trying to bring a curbside composting program to Beacon, NY.

Lamis Harib elaborates on her passion to design everyday waste working as a designer and how we as humans shoud thrive in our designated ecosystem. She came up with a new waste model and her own business in biodepacking and packaging.

Virgil Ierubino asks if you could build a city from the ground up, how would you do it? I don't just mean the buildings. By 'city' I mean the collection of humans and facilities and services and systems that collectively form a functioning society. Would you make different decisions than those which are made for us, all around us, every day? Or, realising that this question assumes you are in a position of considerable power, maybe you'd just go nuts?

This was "Presentation of the Day" on June 11th, 2017. 

Food waste is a massive global problem. Alexandre Vellieux asks: Can it be addressed with technology? One of the founders of JustNow (a new app) thinks so. This is his story.