Episode 128: “Alternative Homes” Original Air Date: 2007-08-25 Take a tour through a unique community in Taos, New Mexico. It features eco-friendly homes that are built with discarded materials, and they’re also “off the grid.” That means they’re totally energy independent. How cool is that? climate.weather.com www.earthship.com

Learn more about Christine Ervin here: www.ecospeakers.com In this keynote address, Christine Ervin, former President and CEO of the US Green Building Council, discusses the environmental performance of green buildings and the role they can play in combating climate change. Ervin’s career as an environmental leader spans executive positions in both national and state government as well as in the nonprofit sector. As the President and CEO of the US Green Building Council, she led its growth from 200 members and three staff in 1999 to become a highly influential coalition of nearly 5000 companies and organizations, 50 staff, and 70 local chapters and affiliates. Over her five-year tenure, the Council launched the LEED™ green building rating system – the nation’s de facto voluntary green building standard – and the Greenbuild international conference and expo. More green building, materials, and design related speakers here: www.ecospeakers.com

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James Corbett of corbettreport.com & James Evan Pilato of mediamonarchy.com proudly present the 20th edition of the New World Next Week. Each week NWNW covers three important stories in a succinct way & provides the documentation necessary for you to do more research for yourself. This week we go into schools spying on students via webcams, Obama’s rebranding of the Iraq War as political semantics and, finally, some good food news from Oregon. Story#1: School Spied on Kids Via Webcams on School-Supplied Laptops ur1.ca ‘Spying’ School Agrees to Preserve Evidence in ‘Laptopgate’ ur1.ca Story#2: Obama Rebrands Iraq War as ‘Operation New Dawn’ ur1.ca Aspartame Renamed ‘Aminosweet’ ur1.ca Story#3: On 81st Birthday, Oregon Man Gives Company to Employees ur1.ca Founder of Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods transfers business to employees ur1.ca Please support the New World Next Week by sharing, rating, commenting & promoting these videos on youtube & your own social networking site; NWNW is getting thousands of views, but with your help they could be seen by even more people who need this information. Stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here ur1.ca & Media Monarchy here ur1.ca Thank You.

Straw-Bale House (4mins) Albertans are building straw-bale houses to achieve R40 from mostly natural, locally sourced materials. About Chapter 10: Eco-Buildings Environmentally friendly buildings enhance the collection and storage of heat and light, making the need for purchased energy almost nil. New materials and design strategies are being innovated right here in Alberta. What will the homes and public buildings of the future look like? AboutMade-in-Alberta (MIA) Series Energy, water and climate, these are hot topics for the 21st Century. With conventional fuel reserves running out, water tables running low, and global temperatures running high, 96 percent of Albertans now want new energy solutions. Since 2004, Barb Allard and her Made-in-Alberta team have been finding these solutions and bringing them to community television and the world wide web. For more information about Made-in-Alberta visit madeinalberta.ca

A succes story in the village Ranidhera with the help of Jatropha Curcas. If you are a Jatropha producing Farmer or network marketeer and you like this video, please put a link on your website. In this way the Jatropha initiative will grow and we will be able to bring power to communities.Be linked to a wonderfull initiative!

What is the root of my emotional stress? Most often it is a feeling of sacrificing my freedom. Nature gives to us freely but we have created an unsustainable world that keeps us working constantly to keep up with it. We are working more than we are enjoying the things that we are working for. Does it feel like this is out of your control? What can we control? What can we change? The answer to these questions is always “ourselves” If you feel like something is oppressing you and you are not …