Lexicon of Sustainability
Despite how much time I
spend posting and commenting on our blog, I rarely explore the
internet. I check the weather, read RSS feeds of over 100 blogs,
ask questions of google, visit extension service websites to see what
the accepted wisdom is on agricultural issues, and use google image
search to identify this and that. But I don't surf. I don't
watch videos, I don't spend time on facebook, I don't follow people's
links.
And yet...I just spent the
better part of an hour poring over the Lexicon of Sustainability
website:
The images are stunning
--- a mish-mash of photography and words that illustrate many of the
agricultural concepts we embrace. The website is beautiful too,
but not very easy to use if you really want to pore over the
images. Instead, you'll need to right click on each image and
save it to your desktop so that you can zoom in and really read what
the artists/authors have to say. I've cropped a couple of the
images down so that you can read them here, but if you want a time
sink, I highly recommend you go check out the rest of the site.
Or explore more posts by date or by subject.
About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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We have a winner: Lexicon of Sustainability
The affort to navigate it is unsustainable.
It is a shame the way the Lexicon site is designed. There is so much information there but it is overwhelming the way you have to navigate through it. The photography is great but not when you are trying to read the captions. Someone needs to tell these people. For all their efforts they are not helping their audience. Their web designer has poor communication skills!
Roland and Rosann --- I know what you mean. Anytime you have to give someone instructions on how to dig information out of a website, that website has failed.
I sound a bit like an old fogey, though, complaining about flashy websites. I know there are people who would complain about our site because of all the photos and ads.