http://susty.com Sustainable + Sexy Living Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:08:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://susty.com/nature-time-changes-attitudes-values-study-suggests-outdoors-mental-health-well-being-community-moral/ http://susty.com/nature-time-changes-attitudes-values-study-suggests-outdoors-mental-health-well-being-community-moral/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:58:54 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=8178 http://susty.com/nature-time-changes-attitudes-values-study-suggests-outdoors-mental-health-well-being-community-moral/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/tropical-deforestation-basics-problem-solution-get-your-fix-environment-eco-friendly-green-design/ http://susty.com/tropical-deforestation-basics-problem-solution-get-your-fix-environment-eco-friendly-green-design/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:24:11 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7862 How to Save Tropical Rainforests Research reveals that logging is the largest single factor leading to tropical deforestation, as the cutting and road building associated with the timber industry opens avenues into rainforests. This initiates a chain of destruction that can include more logging, mining, slash-and-burn clearing for cattle grazing and conversion for chemical-intensive industrial agriculture. Most of the resultant products are exported to northern industrialized countries.]]> http://susty.com/tropical-deforestation-basics-problem-solution-get-your-fix-environment-eco-friendly-green-design/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/late-night-tv-comedy-writers-guys-few-women-male-dominated-career-television-show-staff/ http://susty.com/late-night-tv-comedy-writers-guys-few-women-male-dominated-career-television-show-staff/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:38:33 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7719 Daily Show for Comedy Central back in 1996, as well as from top women writers who have staffed the shows of Conan, Colbert and David Letterman.]]> http://susty.com/late-night-tv-comedy-writers-guys-few-women-male-dominated-career-television-show-staff/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/cannabis-intoxication-michael-pollans-botany-of-desire-pbs-documentary-video/ http://susty.com/cannabis-intoxication-michael-pollans-botany-of-desire-pbs-documentary-video/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:30:26 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=8113 Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire into the PBS documentary by the same name takes a plants-eye view into the history of the apple, tulip, potato and cannabis -- more commonly known as marijuana.]]> http://susty.com/cannabis-intoxication-michael-pollans-botany-of-desire-pbs-documentary-video/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/botany-of-desire-pbs-documentary-adaptation-michael-pollan-book-plants-agriculture-food-eating-human-history-nature-science-video/ http://susty.com/botany-of-desire-pbs-documentary-adaptation-michael-pollan-book-plants-agriculture-food-eating-human-history-nature-science-video/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:06:50 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=8119 Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book The Botany of Desire, this special takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world — seen from the plants' point of view. Watch a video preview after the jump.]]> http://susty.com/botany-of-desire-pbs-documentary-adaptation-michael-pollan-book-plants-agriculture-food-eating-human-history-nature-science-video/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/green-patriarch-opens-eighth-environmental-symposium-in-new-orleans-video/ http://susty.com/green-patriarch-opens-eighth-environmental-symposium-in-new-orleans-video/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:49:02 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7727 "Green Patriarch" Bartholomew of the Eastern Orthodox church officially opened the Eighth Religion, Science and the Environment (RSE) Symposium, entitled “Restoring Balance: The Great Mississippi River,” taking place for the next five days including a large and diverse group of theologians, scientists, policymakers, environmentalists, representatives of business and NGOs, and media. See video of the Ecumenical Patriarch's opening address below the fold.]]> http://susty.com/green-patriarch-opens-eighth-environmental-symposium-in-new-orleans-video/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/confessions-of-radical-industrialist-profits-people-purpose-doing-business-by-respecting-earth-ray-anderson-green-business-sustainable-living-book/ http://susty.com/confessions-of-radical-industrialist-profits-people-purpose-doing-business-by-respecting-earth-ray-anderson-green-business-sustainable-living-book/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:51:03 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=7752 Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothingfrom the earth that can’t be replaced by the earth. Now, in an inspiring business book for our time, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share that goal.]]> http://susty.com/confessions-of-radical-industrialist-profits-people-purpose-doing-business-by-respecting-earth-ray-anderson-green-business-sustainable-living-book/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/underground-library-awarded-feast-grant-local-hand-crafted-books-shared-by-network-readers/ http://susty.com/underground-library-awarded-feast-grant-local-hand-crafted-books-shared-by-network-readers/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:15:19 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=8448 FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics), a recurring public dinner that provides financial support to emerging artmakers, has awarded a $1000 grant to the project "Underground Library." The funding will be used to purchase book-making supplies for book production, facilitate the creation of an on-line forum, and for launching each underground library publication with public readings by published and un-published members of the community. So this baby is on the opposite side of the spectrum from Kindle.]]> http://susty.com/underground-library-awarded-feast-grant-local-hand-crafted-books-shared-by-network-readers/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/red-tailed-hawk-gramercy-park-perched-edwin-booth-statue-photo/ http://susty.com/red-tailed-hawk-gramercy-park-perched-edwin-booth-statue-photo/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:52:16 +0000 by George Spyros, New York City, USA http://susty.com/?p=6640 Red-Tailed Hawk of Gramercy Park has been spending quite a bit of time perched on the head of the Edwin Booth statue. Gramercy residents Dennis and Sandy Kisiel have spotted 99 species of birds in Gramercy Park since 2006. ]]> http://susty.com/red-tailed-hawk-gramercy-park-perched-edwin-booth-statue-photo/feed/ 0 http://susty.com/fabien-cousteau-ocean-exploration-industry-pollution-toxic-chemicals-beluga-whale-consumer-pbs-video/ http://susty.com/fabien-cousteau-ocean-exploration-industry-pollution-toxic-chemicals-beluga-whale-consumer-pbs-video/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:31:48 +0000 by Team Susty, Global http://susty.com/?p=7352 our production company Big City Pictures put together the first in a series of videos interviewing the grandson of Jacques Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau which I had the pleasure of editing. The occasion was a recent screening of the film Sea Ghosts which uses the Beluga whales as the "canary in the coal mine" to conveying the environmental consequences that await we humans. Ironically Sea Ghosts was on the same night that the Star Trek movie rebooted its space opera franchise, so we asked Fabien to comment on the disproportionate amount of research dollars being apportioned to space exploration over Earth's oceans. He also touches on some basic concepts for how our everyday actions wind up contributing to the pollution of our oceans and how that comes back to haunt us on our dinner plates. ]]> http://susty.com/fabien-cousteau-ocean-exploration-industry-pollution-toxic-chemicals-beluga-whale-consumer-pbs-video/feed/ 4