fourteengoingon:

So telling people to be “Green” and “Sustainable” is all well and good, but what does it mean to actually live like that? Not as easy as you may think, and for someone with a decent income it’s easy to forget that those without means may not always have the luxuries of spending a bit extra on organic food or not using a car to drive to work. Kinda hard to walk/bike to work if you have to drop the kids off at school and work is a 45 min car ride away because you can’t afford to live that close. This blog is awesome and takes a look at the challenge of living green in a way that’s not meant to scare us away, but to increase our understanding of something that’s a bit more complex than just turning of our lights when we don’t use them.

http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.net/

kateoplis:

This wildlife overpass near Banff National Park, combined with fencing that leads animals to it, is designed to give wildlife a way to cross over the interstate. It is now thought that underpasses work better for skittish animals too shy to cross out in the open.

— Joel Sartore, Fragile Nature

(via thesustainablelife)