It’s still a beautiful world in most cases, but we need to take action to keep it that way.
In honor of the 2009 Blog Action Day topic, climate change, I’m writing about some of the not-very-pleasant health effects we might see if climate change goes unchecked.

According to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, changes brought about by climate change are expected to affect the health of millions of people directly. Climate change can affect your health in the future directly via heat waves, floods and storms. It can affect your health indirectly by increasing smog and ozone in cities …read more

Blog Action Day was founded by Collis Ta’eed in the summer of 2007. Along with the support of his wife, brother, father, and team at Envato in Australia, he managed to recruit 20,000 bloggers to all write on the same topic on the same day, October 15, 2007. The topic that first year was the environment and it was a huge fun event. In 2008 the topic was poverty and even more bloggers came out to participate. The third annual Blog Action Day is coming up, and there’s still plenty of time for you to jump on board.

What: Blog …read more

As you may remember, Offbeat Homes participated all day long in Blog Action Day 2007, and we’re signed on again this year as well.

Last year the topic was green, which suited this blog. This year the topic is poverty. Not sure what we’ll see here at Offbeat, but we’re in – are you? Anyone with a blog, podcast, or so fourth can sign on to participate. All you have to do is register at Blog Action Day 2008, and then commit to blogging about poverty on October 15th. This year the Blog Action Day site has a glitch that was …read more

This is it; the last Blog Action Day Offbeat post. I tried to show a decent amount of sustainable homes today which I hope you enjoyed. If you’d like to learn more about green building and design or are thinking about building your own home one day check out some of my favorite books. I love a lot of building books — these are just what first came to mind. But if you look around you’ll find many more
You should check out Green Architecture though; it covers green building issue but also looks at the history of shelter and human …read more

Rockhill and Associates aren’t an entirely sustainable architectural business but they do  incorporate green touches that stand out in their unique structures. They play heavy with how nature and landscape can be utilized with their structures which I like a lot.
Here are some of my favorites; for more information on the eco-incorporations of each project simply click on the link.
Kansas Longhouse

Nest House (maybe my favorite) 

Mackie House — you won’t believe how inexpensive this home was to build (land included).  

Visit Rockhill and Associates to learn more and see many more beautiful structures.
Don’t forget to check out what other b5media bloggers …read more

Eco-architecture and architects comes in many levels and flavors. From easy green to extreme but every bit counts. Here are some beautiful (and cool) green structures. To learn more simply click on the links.
DeBoer Architects — the Gatehouse

One World Design — the Drew Residence (I love this home)

San Luis Sustainability Group — The first permitted straw bale building in California

Arkin Tilt Architects – Palter Residence  (Everything they do is amazing; check them out.)

I think what people forget is that often (almost 100% of …read more

If you haven’t guessed yet; it’s Blog Action Day. At last count (I’m not updating all day so…) but at the last count there were 15,568 blogs signed up to participate with a total rss reach of 12,507,731. Not bad. That’s a whole lot of bloggers blogging about the environment. Many bloggers participating are part of the b5media network.
Following are the b5media blogs that are participating in this fine event today. There could be more too — yup, I miss stuff.

Hippie Sounds
Tree Hugging Family
Simply Thrifty
Declutter It!
The Golden Pencil
Yielding Wealth
Daytime Talk
Oz Music Scene
The Sydney Traveler
The Rock Dose
Our Digital Music
Copyblogger
Problogger
Quilting and Patchwork
Alzheimer’s …read more