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Sustainability Section :: Page 2

  • Learn to cook, eat local at workshop

    By YS News StaffJune 4, 2016

    TLT will offer a workshop on cooking and eating local food on June 18.

    Tecumseh Land Trust will host a “Shop Local/Eat Local” workshop on Saturday, June 18, 10 a.m.–noon, at the TLT office, located at 4633 U.S. 68 in Yellow Springs.

  • Groups striving for a local economy of resilience, equity

    By Audrey HackettMarch 17, 2016

    This month’s focus on local economy includes discussions of time exchanges, cooperative food hubs, local investing and more. Here, participants in a yarn game at Community Solutions’ fall 2015 conference discover how their skills intersect with their neighbors’ needs. Such intersections are the basis of the “sharing economy,” an economy centered on shared access to goods and services. (Submitted photo by John H. Morgan)

    A time bank. A worker-owned cooperative food hub. A cooperative entrepreneurial hub with shared services and support. Community-supported industries. Local financing and investing.

  • Shopping at Tom’s and forgot your reusable bag? These kids have got you covered.

    By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 6, 2016

    Lily Rainey, 12, left, and Carina Basora, 11, stand next to the baggerie they installed at Tom’s Market, which allows patrons to borrow and return canvas bags. The baggerie was built as part of their team’s participation in the First Lego League competition, and reflects the competition’s theme of dealing with trash. The team was inspired to reduce the use of plastic grocery bags, which they found through research to be immensely harmful to the earth, its animals and its people. (submitted Photo)

    The “Super Snack Snatchers” lego team from Mills Lawn School has installed a baggerie at the entrance to Tom’s Market, so that shoppers can borrow a reusable bag for their groceries.

  • Free film focuses on reuse as strategy for reducing waste

    By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 22, 2016

    The Zero Waste group of Yellow Springs presents a free screening of the documentary “Reuse! Because You Can’t Recycle the Planet” followed by a panel discussion this Saturday, Jan. 23, at 2 p.m. in room 219 at the Antioch College Science Building. Shown above are, from left, event organizer Liz Mersky, local artist Anna Burke and organizer Vickie Hennessy, with Burke holding a sculpture she created from discarded plastic spoons. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    Zero Waste Yellow Springs is sponsoring a free screening of the documentary, “REUSE! Because You Can’t Recycle the Planet” this Saturday, Jan. 22, at 2 p.m. at the Antioch College Science building.

  • Local YouTube channel to feature energy pioneers

    By Megan BachmanJune 11, 2015

    The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions is looking to tell stories of Yellow Springers on the front lines of climate action on its new Energy & Climate YouTube channel.

  • Clifton earthship workshop announced

    By Megan BachmanFebruary 18, 2015

    Lauren and Zac Craig of Dayton are building a 1970s design earthship in Clifton and recently announced a building workshop.

  • Climate conference to rise again in Yellow Springs

    By Lauren HeatonOctober 7, 2014

    This tree was planted in 1929 by Hugh Taylor Birch in memory of his daughter Helen Bitch Bartlett. (photos by Suzanne Ehalt)

    Glen Helen will host Community Solutions’ sixth energy and climate conference, with a pre-event discussion this Thursday.

  • Tour green homes, businesses in and around Yellow Springs

    By Lauren HeatonOctober 3, 2014

    Hosts from Yellow Springs and the surrounding area will open their homes and businesses this weekend for the 2014 Green Energy Ohio tour.

  • Sidewalks packed in tourist town

    By Carol SimmonsMay 8, 2014

    Any local resident downtown on a beautiful spring weekend such as we’ve experienced in recent weeks can attest that the sidewalks, shops and restaurants are filled with people who hail from other zip codes. What their presence means to the life of the village is a topic of ongoing discussions.

  • Last week for winter market

    By Lauren HeatonMarch 22, 2013

    If you get there early you can buy greens and eggs for your ham.

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