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Want Fresher Produce? Leave Dirt Behind

Butter lettuce from Gotham Greens, a new hydroponic garden in industrial Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Added by Ecolocitizen on August 3, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

That’s Not Trash, That’s Dinner

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Published: New York Times, July 26, 2011

LAST week in Chelsea, Mich., as people wilted and…

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Added by Ecolocitizen on July 27, 2011 at 10:44am — No Comments

To Nullify Lead, Add a Bunch of Fish Bones

Workers at a lot in the South Prescott neighborhood in west Oakland, Calif., where fishbone meal was applied to tainted soil.

By FELICITY BARRINGER

Published: New York Times, July 20, 2011

 

OAKLAND, Calif. — Alaskan pollock is usually the…

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Added by Ecolocitizen on July 21, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

What goes into the making of local honey

By David Hagedorn, Published Washington Post, July 19 2011



Exploring all that goes into locally produced honey seemed like a fine idea. But when it came time to observe the workings of Fern Hill Apiary in Marshall, a stinging reality set in.

Bees. Lots of bees.…



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Added by Ecolocitizen on July 20, 2011 at 12:16pm — No Comments

Mushrooming businesses



JERRY McBRIDE/Herald

Katie Holgate, owner of Mycologic Design of Durango, spreads oyster mushroom mycelium spawn on top of wood chips to create a mushroom patch in her backyard. Eventually, Holgate plans to develop a mushroom-based system…

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Added by Ecolocitizen on June 24, 2011 at 9:20am — No Comments

Transition cities: Mission impossible?

Joanne Poyourow's article could as well be written for DC. See full text here.

Added by Ecolocitizen on January 2, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Restaurateur's vision: a hub for sustainable food

By Kristen Hinman
Special to The Washington Post

Tuesday, December 14, 2010; 11:50 AM

Scanning the horizon from the hill atop Woodlawn Plantation in Fairfax County, Michael Babin can picture his agrarian ideal. A produce garden…

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Added by Ecolocitizen on December 15, 2010 at 9:59pm — No Comments

The Beekeeper Next Door



Mike Barrett keeps his bees in a hive that sits on the rooftop of his two-story row house in Astoria.



By KRISTINA SHEVORY
Published: New York Times, December 8, 2010


MIKE BARRETT does not have much of a yard at his two-story row house in Astoria, Queens. But that fact has not kept him from his new hobby of beekeeping — he put the hive on his…

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Added by Ecolocitizen on December 9, 2010 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Ready as Noah

Here is a poem written by Dave Pollard. He has a blog entitled "How to Save the World"*



*at http://howtosavetheworld.ca/*



*ready as Noah*



so i gathered the members of my community

and we prepared our Transition Plan

we’re set to handle a world without cheap oil,

without a stable climate,

without an industrial ‘growth’… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on November 25, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Petworth Community Market



Please support this Ecolocity initiated project. Ecolocity folk Larry Chang and Jennifer Lehman are board members of the non-profit that runs this weekly market, and Katherine and Anna Nehring are proud vendors of recycled and repurposed goods.



Volunteers are needed to help with set-up at 1 pm Fridays and…

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Added by Ecolocitizen on August 4, 2010 at 11:13pm — 1 Comment

For a Healthier Bronx, a Farm of Their Own



Chris Riger, left, and Rebecca Radliff mulching at the farm.

By KIM SEVERSON
Published: New York Times, June 22, 2010
IT’S hard to imagine two places in New York State more different than

the South Bronx and Schoharie… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on June 23, 2010 at 1:49pm — No Comments

Space: It’s Still a Frontier

Published New York Times, February 3, 2010



By ALLISON ARIEFF



Abandoned by traditional development, under-utilized areas identified by Local Code are precisely those in need of ecological and social attention. As de Monchaux explains, “You couldn’t pick a better archipelago… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on February 5, 2010 at 3:18pm — No Comments

In Portland, Going Green and Growing Vertical in a Bid for Energy Savings

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Published: New York Times, January 30, 2010





An architectural rendering of the trellises designed to shade the western facade of the main federal building in Portland, Ore.



PORTLAND, Ore. — Urban gardening used to seem subversive. People planted tomatoes in public parks, strung their hops to rooftops to make homebrew and reclaimed empty lots as community farms, never mind the property owner.



Yet here in one of the… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on February 1, 2010 at 8:37pm — No Comments

Todmorden's Good life: Introducing Britain's greenest town

'Grow your own' fever has gripped the Pennines community, which is aiming for self-sufficiency



By Joanna Moorhead

Sunday, 29 November 2009





Founders Estelle Brown, Pam Warhurst and Mary Clear, standing in their 'grow your own' community garden in Todmorden



It's an ordinary small town in England, but its residents claim they've discovered the secret that could save the planet. And with world leaders preparing to gather in Copenhagen in just… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on December 2, 2009 at 7:37pm — No Comments

A little piece of a greener world

Rain gardens are planted at Habitat building site in D.C. to cut runoff pollution





Sarah Fulton once worked as a social worker, trying to help clients change their ways, but now that she's retired, she is trying to create tiny ecosystems that could help change the world.



Fulton is one of three volunteers who last month helped plant a rain garden at a Habitat for Humanity townhouse development in Deanwood in Northeast Washington.



At the… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on December 2, 2009 at 1:16pm — No Comments

DC Permibus Tour





The mobile permaculture demonstration (Permibus tour) is a 10-20 minute permaculture primer during which we walk folks through our bus systems; that includes bio-fuels, solar power, greywater, humanure composting, hydroponic garden, permaculture curtains, and composting (including chickens and worms). As we walk folks through the tour of the bus, sharing the possible, we incorporate permaculture principles, which are… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on November 3, 2009 at 1:39pm — No Comments

ECAC's and Ecolocity's Sylvia Robinson featured in WashPost



Pleasant Plains resident Sylvia Robinson fulfilled a dream of creating a thriving community center. (By Ann Cameron Siegal For The Washington Post)



In the 1700s, Pleasant Plains was the name of a large colonial estate stretching from present-day 16th Street NW to Howard University and owned by the Holmead family. Over time, chunks were parceled out, eventually becoming the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights and Park View. Today's Pleasant Plains is what… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on October 17, 2009 at 7:24pm — No Comments

Debate Follows Bills to Remove Clotheslines Bans



David Ahntholz for The New York Times



Jill Saylor used a petition to get the owner of the property where she lives in Canton, Ohio, to reverse a clothesline ban. “Pressure makes a difference,” she said.



By IAN URBINA

Published: October 10, 2009



CANTON, Ohio — After taking a class that covered global warming last year, Jill Saylor decided to save energy by drying her laundry on a clothesline at her mobile home.



“I figured trailer… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on October 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Pavement to Parks

by Allison Arieff

Published New York Times, September 22, 2009





Top, (Park)ing Day installation by S.M.P. Architects, Philadelphia; bottom, Park(ing) Day, San Francisco.



Last Friday, cities and towns throughout the world celebrated Park(ing) Day, an event created to bring awareness to the importance of using and enjoying public space. Witnessing all those swaths of pavement transformed into plant-filled community gathering spaces… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on September 23, 2009 at 10:49am — No Comments

Green Metropolis





In a review in the Washington Post of David Owens' Green Metropolis, Jonathan Yardley writes:



Americans love their cars and the independence they permit, though anyone who thinks it's truly independent to be stuck in a Washington commuter jam has a very strange definition of the term. Speaking of which, Washington does not fare well in Owen's analysis. It is indeed "a city of restrained proportions and stirring metropolitan vistas." But "ecologically . . . it's… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on September 19, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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