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Ecolocitizen's Blog – April 2009 Archive (2)

Black Folks, Green Thumbs

By: Dayo Olopade, The Root, April 22, 2009



The problem, says Seneca Price-Kern, an advocate for local farming who has started a branch of the WeFarm America collective in Chicago, is a combination of cost and culture. Going green is costly: Shopping at Whole Foods can eat up an entire paycheck. And despite black Americans’ agrarian roots, farming and naturalism has often seemed more a project for the barnyard-loving, hemp-wearing set.… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on April 22, 2009 at 5:05pm — No Comments

NY Times article on Transition

North First Avenue in Sandpoint, Idaho, a town of 8,100 surrounded by two mountain ranges. Sandpoint is the second official Transition initiative in the US.



By JON MOOALLEM

Published: New York Times, April 16, 2009



The Transition movement was started four years ago by Rob Hopkins, a young British instructor of ecological design. Transition shares certain principles with environmentalism, but its vision is deeper — and… Continue

Added by Ecolocitizen on April 20, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

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