exploring, empowering, sharing, implementing
sustainable growing lifestyles
explore
Winter to Spring 2011
discover
Summer to Fall 2011
plant
Winter to Spring 2012
grow
Summer to Fall 2012
two year cycle of
sharing practical and applicable
solutions around the world
by Rion
05.17.2011
We just returned from traveling around the world in 3 months. Thanks to my father, a retired pilot at Delta Airlines, we were able to travel to Southeast Asia and back for fairly cheap. Of course, we flew standby (or space available), but in the end, it was a perfect fit for our adventure, and [...]
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by Rion
04.17.2011
Raking Leaves – An Easier Way When sitting with my family at Thanksgiving, admiring my aunt & uncle’s new landscaping, my aunt commented that she should rake the leaves and put them in the green bin. Appreciating the fresh mulch spread below the tree, I gave her my take on the most common and popular [...]
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by Rion
04.15.2011
I entered this video in the Santa Barbara Earth Day Green Shorts Video Contest. I have a few different versions of my time at Quail Spring’s Natural Building Intensive, but since the other ones were geared towards sharing the experience with the people who were directly involved, I figured I needed to create something for [...]
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by Rion
04.05.2011
The Problem? It was my secret intention as we traveled the world to learn from the diversity of culture and the hidden secrets of indigenous people. At first, I was a bit horrified when I encountered global homogenization. According to the dictionary, ‘homogenization’ means to blend (diverse elements) into a uniform mixture. Granted, I know [...]
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by Elle
01.03.2011
I’ve been reading Inward Bound by Alexander Everett, the founder of Mind Dynamics, the human potential program that spawned many of the key, thriving self development organizations that exist today, including Landmark Education, LifeSpring and PSI. For the first time, I finally understand what it means that we’re moving into the Age of Aquarius. Until [...]
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by Rion
12.28.2010
Starting a Non Profit Site We Share Earth was founded in February of 2007. That process, including all of the paperwork to become a 501(c)3, is another story all together (coming soon). The website was one page long until we started Two Years Grow. It wasn’t until I met Elle that I really got clear [...]
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by Elle
12.21.2010
It was my first big move in over four years and I had accumulated a lot more than I ever thought I would, given my relatively minimalist attitude toward belongings. What was I going to do with all of this stuff that was too random to sell, a portable DVD player missing the battery, a [...]
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by Elle
12.21.2010
For me, it all started in the late 80′s, when “World Peace” and “Save The Environment” were trendy catch phrases rolled out to my generation as part of advertisements for major brands like Coca Cola and Roots (I was in Canada, after all). Suddenly it was cool to recycle, and even cooler to wear a [...]
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by Rion
12.21.2010
I was born in Germany in 1976. I lived in Saudi Arabia in 1988. I was even in Seoul, Korea for the riots in the same year. I saw Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong before I was a teenager. It changed me to see the way the rest of the world lived, even though I [...]
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by Rion
12.21.2010
I’ve been homeless before. I could claim I lived out of my car, but when it’s a two-door Saturn coupe, it’s not like being a vagabond in a VW Westfalia. Mostly it involved couch surfing, but I found myself camping at the occasional park. It wasn’t until I built my first home for the cost [...]
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