About the Sustainable Dude

Hi, I'm Robert, the editor-in-chief, blogger-in-chief, and really, the main guy behind the curtain at dudesustainable.com. I decided, as a diversion (and because I love blogging so much) that I would start my own personal blog. Hence, sustainable dude. Because it's different from Dude, Sustainable! Or is it?

Anyway, I like to blog about the environment, sustainability, global warming, alternative energy, gardening, and new, Online Colleges! Why? Because these things all have something in common...they are part and parcel of the most important issue of our day. 

We're not going to hell in a handbasket, and we're not going to make the world implode, but we have made quite a mess of it so far. The industrial revolution has done two things to our world (if you're going to boil it down). It's brought us unimaginable wealth, prosperity and material comfort, the likes of which were totally unforseen even 213 years ago, with the publication of Thomas Malthus An Essay on the Principles of Population. And while that may be the case, it's also created the present unsustainable situation; human beings are outgrowing their ability to live in their environment the way it existed in the pre-industrial era. We need solutions if we are to maintain our current standard of living, because if we allow climate change to disrupt our plantet's economic, social and political orders, then we are in trouble. 

So I have chosen my contribution to the debate. I'm going to talk about it, and I'm going to talk about it publicly (or at least as public as this blog becomes). I've been doing it for six months over at our other site, and here's what we've covered so far:

Come visit our parent site, Dude, Sustainable! We blog about green issues and topics in sustainability. The environment, global warming and online colleges who offer degrees in sustainability! Here's what's trending now!

Green living and green blogging. This is the most important thing we do! We specialize in bringing together environmentalists and social network users to share their message and network with their friends, family and colleagues on important issues! Why? Because the green movement was born of organization, and the internet has a capacity to dramatically amplify our message, but it's also atomized us to an extent. Name one environmental site with the reach of a CNN or Fox News. You can't. You can only name the thousands to hundreds of thousands of independent bloggers plugging away. Let's take a page from someone who once said, "Workers of the World Unite!" and become "Environmentalists of the World Wide Web, Unite!"

Build Your Own Greenhouse! We love to blog about gardening. We have a very special post, my own personal experience with building my own greenhouse. Helps you garden year-round, and best of all, live a sustainable life! Why? Because you should care about where your food comes from, and if it comes from your back yard, then you know exactly where it came from, how it was grown, and significantly, what's in it!

Strawberry - Inspired by an NPR story, we'd like to start hunting down heirloom fruits, starting with the little-known heirloom strawberry! Why the strawberry? Because it's delicious, that's why!

Go Green at home, on the road and everywhere you go! Use this guide to going green, our "Easy steps to go green" resource page to structure your life around sustainable practices. We're going to transform those articles into e-books within a matter of a few weeks, so stay tuned and open your wallets a little to support our cause!

Be Green with our sustainable living resources page. So my site isn't for you? These ones certainly will be! The best environmental blogs and news sites out there, green living blogs, government resources and fun things to do! Come check it out!

We'd love to have you visit Dude, Sustainable! Just one click away!