Resources

Take Action

Energy conservation at work: Use these tools to decrease energy use in your office and carbon emissions from campus.

Top 10 Actions: A PDF poster of the most effective ways to decrease energy use on campus. Available in color poster by request.
5 Things in 5 Minutes: A PDF poster of the fastest routes to drpping energy use in your office. Available in color poster by request.
Power Down for Winter Break: A list of common office equipment that you can shut down when you leave on winter break.
Western Sustainability Office Certification: Certify your office as an SOC area today!

Knitting & Sustainability

Making/handcraft supports sustainability in the following ways:

Systems thinking
Self-reliance
Creativity
Research
Communication
Designing for form
Satisfaction
Sewing
Repair
Story-telling

Working with a common purpose
Transformative ingenuity
Handwork enhancing neurological connections & focus
Skills that can be used in K-12 classroom
Enhanced understanding of material anthropology & archeology
Clothing as cultural identifier

Winter Booklist

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times / Elizabeth Wayland Barber.
Cheap, The High Cost of Discount Culture / Ellen Ruppel Shell.
How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything / Mike Berners-Lee.
Shop Class as Soul Craft, an inquiry into the value of work / Matthew B. Crawford.
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion / Elizabeth Cline.
Craftcycle : 100+ eco-friendly projects and ideas for everyday living / Heidi Boyd.
Eco-craft : recycle-recraft-restyle / Susan Wasinger.
Good Earth Art: Environmental art for kids / MaryAnn F. Kohl, Cindy Gainer ; illustrations, Cindy Gainer.
How green is my library? / Sam McBane Mulford and Ned A. Himmel.
Modern sustainable residential design: a guide for design professionals / William J. Carpenter.
The Power of Sustainable Thinking : how to create a positive future for the climate, the planet, your organization and your life / Bob Doppelt.
The Salvage Studio: Sustainable Home Comforts to Organize, Entertain, and Inspire / by Amy Duncan, Beth Evans-Ramos, and Lisa Hilderbrand ; photography by Kate Baldwin.
Sustainable Communities / edited by Terry Marsden.
Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories: planning, design, and operation / Kling Stubbins.
The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When It All Comes Together / edited by Jeana Wirtenberg, with William G. Russell and David Lipsky, in collaboration with The Enterprise Sustainability Action Team.
The Sustainable Learning Community: One University's Journey to the Future / John Aber, Tom Kelly,
and Bruce Mallory, editors.

Textile and Sustainability Links/Resources

Projects, programs, research and commentary in the US. This is just a taste of what is out there. There are artisans, designers, weavers, clothing makers, manufacturers in every regional "fibershed".