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August 2009 Blog Posts (3)

Call to Illustrators

Hey, any ‘local’ illustrators out there … I need a little imagery for a children’s environmental book.

Added by Ayende Youmans on August 24, 2009 at 12:49pm — No Comments

A Farm on Every Floor

By DICKSON D. DESPOMMIER

Published: New York Times, August 23, 2009







IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most farming into cities, and grow crops in tall, specially constructed buildings. It’s called vertical… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on August 24, 2009 at 12:06pm — No Comments

This is what i mean ...

Social sustainability must include rehabilitation and restoration of marginalized and broken populations such as the homeless, substance abusers and the incarcerated. There are enough successful working models to show how this can be better done. Growing food and flowers seems to have a therapeutic effect on troubled minds, much in the way that working with animals, especially horses, seems to have on autistic kids. I'd love to see these ideas carried out at Hill East, where the DC jail… Continue

Added by Larry Chang on August 16, 2009 at 11:53am — 4 Comments

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