1. Litter information Links
2. Design Clean (ideas on how to)
3. Marine Debris
4. Green Community
5. Sustainability
6. Vermont made sustainable products
7. Less stuff, more time.
8. Micro Plastics
9. Cigarette butts
10. Plastic-wrapped Earth
11. Gardening and Soil remediation
12. Vermont
13. Birding
14. Anti-litter Videos
15. Litter Songs
16. Natural World Resources
17. Messaging (how to)
Litter Information Links
1. Anti-Litter Resources Wiki
2. Burlington Free Press Article I believe - litter free year round
3. Adopt a Spot: By Duxbury Litter Patrol.
4. Litter Facts and Research. By State of Missouri:
5. Great Britain litter count by brand.
5b. Junk Food (Company) Giants.
6. Litter it just isn't natural- Poster PDF.
7. Keep America Beautiful org.
8. Reducing litter on roadsides, 2009 Report
9. The Litter Letter Project
10. Changing littering behavior - Community Change:
11. Trashed (documentary)
12. Guide to cigarette litter prevention program.
13. Bait Tanks: Cig. Butt containers.
14. NOAA: De-mystifying the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
15. 501-C3 non profit. Clean Fairfax
15. Why we litter.
Design Clean (Ideas)
1. Testing people's behavior and demonstrating results (street cleaning/litter cleanup-One side of street(s).
2. Create anti litter video or Pick Up Litter video for cash prize
3. Responsible Runners
Marine Debris:
1. Turning the Tide on Trash. A leaning guide on Marine Debris by NOAA:
2. Pocket Guide to Aquatic Debris by The Ocean Conservancy:
3. Pocket Guide to Marine Debris II: by The Ocean Conservancy:
4. Litter and Marine Debris. By Solve:
5. ‘Scary as hell’ ocean-research storm breaks
6. The tragedy of ocean
7. Living Lands and Waters
Chad Pregracke has made it his life's work to clean up the Mississippi River and other American waterways. Since 1998, about 70,000 volunteers have helped Pregracke remove more than 7 million pounds of garbage from 22 rivers across the country. "Picking up garbage, it's tough, miserable and hot," Pregracke said. "We try to make it fun."
Read more here
8. Got a spare afternoon?
Green Community
1. Ways to make your neighborhood safer, greener, more fun.
2.Create shared message online message boards: Read how others used it for litter related entries by the public.
3. South Burlington Common Roots :Common Roots connects farmers, educators, youth, and community members to build a sustainable future through place-based educational and service programs.
Sustainability
1. Compostable Products: What they are. .
2. Are mushrooms the new plastic?
Ecovative Design. (Using regional raw materials-ag waste, can be formed to any form, and it is compostable.)
3. City of South Burlington's Path to Sustainability
4. Be Straw Free campaign.
4b. Be Straw Free Blog
5. Natural Packing Material for shipping: Pine Cones - light weight, free, compostable.(no link)
6.We Hate to Waste Blog
7. NY Wa$ste Match
8. Rethinking Consumption (2012 report):
9. Green, frugal, sustainable- Blog:
10. Business core strengths for social change
11. Good life is…
12. Sustainable Vt community
13. Sweden runs out of trash.
14. Sustainability/Neighborhoods: Pocket neighborhoods.
13. Articles by various authors about waste.
14. TED: Creative Houses
15. Discard Studies (blog). Exploring throw-away culture
16. Respectful Revolution. The Respectful Revolution documents positive actions throughout the United States with short video portraits.
14. TED: Creative Houses
15. Discard Studies (blog). Exploring throw-away culture
16. Respectful Revolution. The Respectful Revolution documents positive actions throughout the United States with short video portraits.
Vermont made Sustainable Products
1. Real Easter Basket Grass. A Natural alternative to imitation plastic grass.
2.Conant Metal and Light blog. While we still produce a broad range of custom products, repurposed lighting, repurposed furniture, and everything industrial has become our primary focus
3. Vermont Woods Studions Blog.
Less stuff, more time.
1. Collaborative Consumerism:
2. Ways to need less money have more time.
3. Picturing Excess
4. Stuck in Vt: Tiny Houses.
5. Stuck in Vt. Tiny Houses sequel
6. The high price of materialism
7. The Story of stuff
8. Tiny Houses
9. To much stuff?
10. Unconsumption-Re-Use blog:
11. Global waste-not, trash into musical instruments...
12. * Whats the point of work?
Microplastics
1. What’s the Big Deal with Microplastics?
2. Micro Plastic Pollution -
3. Micro plastics research 1yr pilot-scale study@16 N.H. beaches.
4. Microplastics in Great Lakes.
5. Lake Garda full of plastic.
6. Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress
Cigarette Butts
1. Vancouver Canada to collect and bring butts to recycler.
2. Cigarette Butt Pollution Project
Gardening and Soil remediation
1. Vermont Gardener - blog
2. Building Soil:
3. Growing w/o digging
4.The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka:
5. Permaculture
6.Dandelions
7.VT Tree selection
8. Alternative Gardening by Birds and Blooms
1. Real Easter Basket Grass. A Natural alternative to imitation plastic grass.
2.Conant Metal and Light blog. While we still produce a broad range of custom products, repurposed lighting, repurposed furniture, and everything industrial has become our primary focus
3. Vermont Woods Studions Blog.
Less stuff, more time.
1. Collaborative Consumerism:
3. Picturing Excess
4. Stuck in Vt: Tiny Houses.
5. Stuck in Vt. Tiny Houses sequel
6. The high price of materialism
7. The Story of stuff
8. Tiny Houses
9. To much stuff?
10. Unconsumption-Re-Use blog:
11. Global waste-not, trash into musical instruments...
12. * Whats the point of work?
Microplastics
1. What’s the Big Deal with Microplastics?
2. Micro Plastic Pollution -
3. Micro plastics research 1yr pilot-scale study@16 N.H. beaches.
4. Microplastics in Great Lakes.
5. Lake Garda full of plastic.
6. Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress
Cigarette Butts
1. Vancouver Canada to collect and bring butts to recycler.
2. Cigarette Butt Pollution Project
Plastic wrapped Earth
1. AFLOAT-Australia’s Waterways online magazine. Thoughts on a timeless coast in a plastic world. We have no idea how long plastic litter will last in the environment. Why? Because as of now we have no idea of anything in nature that is actually known to decompose plastic back to its building blocks.
3. Plastic Oceans by ABC. .
9. Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic Debris… by Huff. Post
10. 4 secrets about bottled water. By Mens Health:
11. Bag It Movie Trailer.
12. Lessons from the Lorax: Why Nagging Doesn’t Work: By My Plastic-free life.
14. Polluting plastics by Chris Jordan.
15. * Plastic seduction video. By Plastic Pollution. (Video of people eating plastic)
16. Plastic pollution makes fish sick. By Radio Netherlands WW.
17. The Story of bottled water. By The story of stuff project.
18. Plastic the ocean's deadliest predator. By We hate to waste.
18. Plastic the ocean's deadliest predator. By We hate to waste.
19. TEDx GreatPacificGarbagePatch - Beth Terry - Living Plastic Free.
20. Real Easter Basket Grass. Made in Vermont. A NATURAL ALTERNATIVE TO IMITATION PLASTIC GRASS.
21. The Plastic Bag Wars- article in The Rolling Stones Magazine.
20. Real Easter Basket Grass. Made in Vermont. A NATURAL ALTERNATIVE TO IMITATION PLASTIC GRASS.
21. The Plastic Bag Wars- article in The Rolling Stones Magazine.
Gardening and Soil remediation
1. Vermont Gardener - blog
2. Building Soil:
3. Growing w/o digging
4.The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka:
5. Permaculture
6.Dandelions
7.VT Tree selection
8. Alternative Gardening by Birds and Blooms
VERMONT
1. Vermont Deficit Disorder -Your brain on Vermont. (short video). Gardener Blog
2. Winter in Vermont, Top 11 experiences.
3. South Burlington Land Trust (SBLT)
The SBLT is dedicated to protecting South Burlington’s special features, specifically its natural resources through land conservation vehicles, to maintain this high quality of life. Partnerships are established with other conservation organizations and individuals to protect natural areas in South Burlington and Vermont as a whole.
4. Lake Champlain International (LCI) Fishing Derby (Video)
5. Sexy Vermont: 50 Shades of Green
6. Vermont-A Sense of Place
Birding
1. Pesticide Acute Toxicity Is a Better Correlate of U.S. Grassland Bird Declines than Agricultural Intensification
1b. http://ht.ly/j9xnc
2. Vermont Birder (blog w/photos)
3. Charlotte grassland planning is for the birds.
Anti-Litter Videos
1. Can I just get a hug?
2. What I discovered in New York City trash TED talk. Robin Nagle
5· Flash Mob
8· Sesame Street Noodles and Nedd 9· Don't turn your back.
10· Litter Monster Tackles...
11· Magic magnetic litter man.
13. 3 month Litter campaign.
14. Skate park antilittering video.
· BUTT Really? by Michael Franti
14. Skate park antilittering video.
· BUTT Really? by Michael Franti
· Please don't litter Earth Song, Michael Jackson.
Natural World Resources
1. Natural History Dictionary The Natural History Dictionary is a collaborative project based in Burlington, VT. Entries in this dictionary will help users figure out what the presence of a plant, fungus, animal, rock, natural phenomenon, or human artifcat in an area indicates about that place in particular. ...our dictionary includes contextual information to help you understand why you find things where you find them and why you don’t where you don’t. Secondly, the dictionary will help you interpret the adaptive and ecological meaning of key features of plants, rocks, animals, etc
3. E-Butterfly. Report and share your butterfly observations, photographs, and collections to promote scientific discovery.
Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.
Our Vision: Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.
Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
5. Wildflower listing with photos. USwildflowers.com Wildflowers of the U.S.
To Search by wildflower photo, click here.
Messaging:
5. Wildflower listing with photos. USwildflowers.com Wildflowers of the U.S.
To Search by wildflower photo, click here.
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