GOOD Magazine has a nice visual demonstration of a livable street, basically a city street designed to welcome pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, and cars equally. Simple changes like curb extensions, textured crosswalks, bollards, and plantings turn car-choked urbanity into an inviting place to walk around.
Posted by Chris in Architecture, Carfree, Environment on May 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
The Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania is doing some really interesting research — and they have a really excellent couple of blogs. I highly recommend you subscribe to these feeds. Especially the “Global Warming News and Research.” It will pretty much keep you up to date — and help me resist the temptation [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Environment, Food, Organics on April 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
I haven’t even watched this TED talk by Willie Smits yet, but I know it’s going to be exceptional. We still need to stop destroying rainforest, and I imagine the list of caveats is a mile long, but it’s good to know that these places aren’t gone forever.
Posted by Chris in Environment, To Help on March 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Bad news from California (like we didn’t already know) in the Wall Street Journal: Shrinking Water Supplies Imperil Farmers.
Dwindling water supplies are compounding economic woes in California’s Central Valley, causing farmers to leave fields fallow and confront the prospect of going under.
The state’s water supply has dropped precipitously of late. California is locked [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Bummer, Environment, News on February 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
These folks aim to turn the White House lawn into something way more yummy and useful.
I say it’s about dern time!
EDIT: And these folks are working on picking which farmer . . .
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Community & Activism, Environment, Food, Organics, That which is awesome on January 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
Well, as a farmer, I have a lot of worries, but lately this is what has been keeping me up at night.
California teeters on the edge of the worst drought in the state’s history, officials said Thursday after reporting that the Sierra Nevada snowpack – the backbone of the state’s water supply – is only [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Environment, Wicked Weather, You have got to be kidding on January 30th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Seems like we’re getting back to the future in style.
The Climate Friendly Cities is a project of the Green Renewable Independent Power Producers (GRIPP), a local non-government organization. In the Ecopolis episode, GRIPP Chairperson Athena Ballesteros explained that she envisioned GRIPP to address the pollution and noise problems that come with the 250,000 or [...]
Posted by Deb in Business, Carfree, Environment, News, Shameless Promotion, That which is awesome on January 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
Who says good things can’t come from your trash can?
Posted by Deb in Environment, Oddly Enough, Technology on January 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Xerces Society has a new website. Yay, bugs!
I mean, seriously, just because they lack endoskeletons and have more appendages than you do is no reason to get all squeamish.
Here, we’ll start you off slowly with some really, really important bugs: native honeybees and bumble bees (one of my favorites). And they’ve got [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Animals, Environment, Science, That which is awesome, Uncategorized on January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Since I know y’all are just waiting breathlessly for updates on our new Electric ATV or ATEV from Barefoot Motors, here’s a recent article on Wired: Behold the Tesla of All-Terrain Vehicles.
Our vehicle is supposedly going to be ready in March. Y’all can start making travel plans to come test drive it; [...]
Posted by Deb in Environment, Shameless Promotion, Technology, That which is awesome on December 20th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
