The workout she did was called IntenSati. A little bit like spinning without the bike or zumba with a lot more yelling. Look it up.

Then I saw this post by Jessica Earley about Dance Therapy:

When I saw both of these, I was also reminded of a reference in a Daniel Pink book to Laughing Clubs or Laughter Yoga. It works. Don’t believe me?

Clinical research on Laughter Yoga methods, conducted at the University of Graz in Austria; Bangalore, India; and in the United States has proved that Laughter lowers the level of stress hormones (epinephrine, cortisol, etc) in the blood. It fosters a positive and hopeful attitude. It is less likely for a person to succumb to stress and feelings of depression and helplessness, if one is able to laugh away the troubles.

A house that can fit on a flat bed trailer. Now for sale!

See also: The Small House Book by Jay Shafer, the man who designs and builds these tiny houses.

Have you got better ideas? Better links? Better videos? Books? Let me know.

Thanks to *faircompanies, who made many of these awesome and inspirational videos.

YouTube is a wealth of resources, here are a few:

• A good explanation of why you might want to compost. Here is an example of the Kitchen Compost Keeper she mentions in the video.
  
• A good in-depth discussion about making compost
  
• 100% Recycled Composter
  
• Repurposed Wine Barrel with skateboard wheel platform
  
• Repurposed 50 Gallon Drum
  
• Composting for Dummies
  

1. Newspaper, wood and string, suitable for starting a woodburning stove or fireplace.
   
2. Char cloth, for the rustic campers – I first saw this made by a crazy man in a top hat, and he was using old underwear as the fabric.
3. pine cones dipped in wax, not a bad idea for something more crafty and decorative, in this case fitting a holiday / winter theme.
4. Last but not least, something to put out your fire, a fire extinguisher made from vinegar, water and baking soda in a repurposed soda bottle.
   

The Blue Line PowerCost Monitor can save you money on electricity and save the Rock-afire Explosion from extinction! As the distributor of these monitors, I am using the proceeds of the sales of these monitors to finance the creation of new shows. Those who buy one of these from Creative Engineering, Inc. will also be given access to a private website showing lots of behind the scenes footage never before seen as well as other benefits. If saving money on electricity and saving the Rock-afire Explosion are worthy of your interest, please give me a call or send a note to me at aaron.fechter@gte.net

I wonder if much/any of it was salvageable – this video doesn’t mention that at all.

Oil’d from Chris Harmon on Vimeo.

A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.

As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.

So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation. I’ve spent all of my free time in the last month putting this together to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.

Designed, animated and written by Chris Harmon

Voice Talent: Kim Estes

Music: Billy Perez & Todd Stambaugh

Special Thanks to Daye Rogers and Christy Kurtz

Sources:

Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/

U.S. Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/

http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_04_23.html

Rubber Manufacturers Association
http://www.rma.org/about_rma/rubber_faqs/

http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2010_fotw617.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDPE

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_one_gallon_of_crude_oil_weigh

http://www.icis.com/v2/chemicals/9076455/propylene/uses.html

http://volunteerguide.org/volunteer/fewhours/used-tires.htm

http://earth911.com/recycling/plastic/plastic-bottle-recycling-facts/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

Colle Davis, the inventor of Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems, majored in the field of Renewable Natural Resources in 1972, at the University of California at Davis, and he’s been refining Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems for the past 37 years.

After a career as a successful entrepreneur, businessman and consultant, Colle has always made the time to continue his research to reduce the chronic problems of tank sediment, and he discovered a new pumping system that solved all the clogging problems in the fish tank and made it possible for the system to automatically remove the sediments from the fish tank without clogging the pump to grow healthier fish and vegetables. This new system made it possible to fully automate the farm using his own unique engineering, so that anyone, anywhere, could raise their own food.

Visit EcoFactory for the original American Clay story, then register or subscribe!

The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) is working with a team of interns and volunteers to explore the legal needs of a growing urban agriculture movement. We are developing an online Urban Agriculture Legal Resource Library, and designing resources and presentations that explore legal issues that relate to urban agriculture, including: land acquisition, zoning, property taxes, land covenants, health codes, building codes, nuisance laws, land conservation tools, and so on.

The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) facilitates the growth of sustainable, localized, and just economies, through legal research, professional training, resource development, and education about practices such as:

· Cooperatives
· Community-supported enterprises
· Barter
· Sharing
· Local currencies
· Intentional communities, ecovillages, cohousing
· Affordable housing and limited equity housing
· Urban agriculture
· Community-based renewable energy
· Community land trusts
· Social enterprise
· Microlending
· Local investing
· Co-op banks/credit unions

I get a weekly deliver of a fruit and vegetable basket from a local farm. I describe how i am going to use forever bags to store the produce. Do a search in your local area for the same service.

Do you have CSA in your area? Are you a subscriber? How much of your weekly food for meals is actually grown locally?

• Hand-made food
• It was all grown locally
• Community
• Deliciousness
• Someone made a video about it!

When Life Gives You Lemons, Preserve Them! from OrganicNation on Vimeo.

From Organic Nation.tv – A Quick Tutorial On How To Preserve Lemons (Video):

We caught up with blogger/foodie/activist Rachel Weidinger, who also happens to be an expert preserver, at her Homegrown Village booth at MakerFaire 2009 in San Mateo, California. She showed us how to preserve fresh lemons with salt so they will last a year and taste delicious added to omelets, hummus, salads and pasta:

Special thanks to Homegrown.org and FarmAid for putting on this great event! You can fiind more tips from Rachel on her blog AKitchenOfHerOwn.com or follow her on Twitter @Rachelannyes.

-Dorothee

The video I want to focus on is a talk give by Dan Hill, who is a design, web, media, city, travel, culture, architecture, music, creative type of fellow. He takes several ideas and mashes them up to make you think about a world where you measure your usage of resources, and the possible logical ends of those measurements. You really have to watch the video to get the meaning. Go on, click the link and come back, I’ll wait… It’s a little over 10 minutes, just to warn you.

The Well-Tempered Personal Environment: Chucking social software at your local energy sources, giving you a personal energy profile, which can then be aggregated to your street, your mates, your neighbourhood, your region, your city etc.

They start playing “These boots are made for walking” because he’s passed his 10-minute time limit – each talk at InterestingSouth is between 3 and 10 minutes. The event is only one night, and doesn’t take very long, but I’m sure everyone walks away with a head full of new ideas, inspiration and questions.

I’m interested to see what people can think of once we collect 5 years worth of that data, or 25 years. After a century, the world will be in a completely different place. Who knows what our great grandchildren will have moved on to then?

Dan’s blog post about The Well-Tempered Personal Environment

See the ‘Facebook App’ slide from the talk

I’d like to post a lot of relevant links to go with this video, but that will take a little while. Check back soon for some more info.

Anyway, the message is simple – save the organic farms, save the cheerleader – wait, maybe it’s “with great food comes great responsibility”, or… you decide.

Here’s a video I recently came across that takes you to NYC’s Babeland, a sex shop where they sell eco-friendly lubes and toys. Check out the original post on Treehugger for more video: How to buy Green Lube.

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Sandra Diaz and Jeremy Seghers of Carbon Productions speak about the issue behind this year’s Heart of Coal, Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. Heart of Coal was a theatre production at the 2007 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival. Sandra points out iLoveMountains.org as a place to go for more information on the issue.

For more information about Orlando Fringe, check out OrlandoFringe.org, MySpace and our sister site, Blogging Fringe.

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