Be The Difference
Be The Difference is a growing community of citizens committed to practicing sustainable lifestyles that include growing food locally, supporting local economy, retrofitting homes and commercial spaces for energy conservation and efficiency, using energy from clean and renewable sources, and most importantly creating a culture of community in which these practices flourish. We offer what we are learning for free to anyone. We invite others to join us in exploring our relationships to our living world and our relationship to each other.
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Featured Article
Toward Sustainable Living: Our Continuing Story by Edwin & Carrol Firmage
This is the personal story of two of Be the Difference's founding members, Ed and Carrol Firmage. It describes their first steps toward sustainable living. The full article, Toward Sustainable...
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Featured Blog Post
Our True Energy Minutemen
This appeared as an op-ed commentary in the Salt Lake Tribune, July 4, 2008 The Real Energy Minutemen Senator Orrin Hatch ("Delegation Slams Oil-Shale Moratorium,"...
Featured Resource
The Story of Stuff
Click to view a twenty-minute video that gives an incisive and comprehensive overview of the impact of our consumption on natural and human systems. www.storyofstuff.com/
Latest News
First Salt Lake City Sustainability Summit Just Announced
The Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community and the Robert G. Hemingway Foundation announce Salt Lake City's first Sustainability Summit. Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 10 a.m. - 3 p.m Place: The...
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Articles
Sustainability Summit October 3, 2008 Leonardo Center Salt Lake City, Utah Opening: Welcome by Philipp...- Principles to Support Collective Effort Work Learn Build Relationships 10:15 What is going on in the world ...
- Video: Photos can be seen at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sustainablesaltlake/ Click on "Sets"....
- We will meet to follow up on our recent Sustainability Summit on Saturday, November 1 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm ...
- WHY ATTEND I teach a general education interdisciplinarysustainability class at Salt Lake Community College an...
One of the purposes of Be the Difference is to make people in our community aware of the many resources availa...
A presentation on our energy future prepared by Jean Arnold of Post-Carbon Salt Lake, a group of concerned cit...
News Articles
A calendar of current Utah sustainability events....- Salt LakeSustainabilitySummit Planning Meeting Harvest Saturday, December 13, 2008 Welcome Ben Mates Pre...
Living in a World without Waste One Town in Japan Shows the World How...
Events
We will meet to follow up on our recent Sustainability Summit on Saturday, November 1 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm ...
Resources
- This is our jumping off page to other online resources. Subjects are organized by category and subcategory. In...
A roadmap for sustainable U.S. energy policy prepared by noted nuclear engineer, Dr. Arjun Makhijani. The book...
Free Podcast lectures on environmental topics....
Perspectives and initiatives for local self-reliant living in the face of energy, climate, and economic uncert...
Energy news from around the world....
An informative blog about energy....
A rich site devoted to subjects relating to electric and hybrid vehicles....
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