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Ecolocitizen's Blog – November 2008 Archive (6)
Blue is the New Green
New York Times, November 20, 2008, 10:00 pm
110 The Embarcadero. (Rendering by Pelli Clarke Pelli)
For a couple of months there, it was sort of exciting to witness how dramatically higher oil prices were affecting human behavior. Ridership of public transit was up, homeowners were swapping exurban houses for urban condos, S.U.V. sales were down, people were walking. T. Boone Pickens threw cash at a… Continue
Added by Ecolocitizen on November 21, 2008 at 12:12pm — No Comments
Food Storage as Grandma Knew It
WINTER STASH Harriet Fasenfest, a backyard gardener, stores produce in a shed and at the base of her cellar stairs, above.
By MICHAEL TORTORELLO
New York Times: November 5, 2008
IN a strictly technical sense, Cynthia Worley is not transforming her basement into a time machine. Yet what’s going on this harvest season beneath her Harlem brownstone on 122nd Street, at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, is surely something… Continue
Added by Ecolocitizen on November 12, 2008 at 12:24pm — No Comments
The White House Organic Farm Project
TheWhoFarm (aka The White House Organic Farm Project) is a non-partisan, petition-based initiative to respectfully request that our 44th President oversee the planting of an organic farm on the grounds of The White House, our nation’s First Home, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC.
Whoever sits in the White House, we will still be faced with rising food costs and scarcity as a result of peak oil, as well as the health risks… Continue
Added by Ecolocitizen on November 3, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments
A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt
Published: November 1, 2008
NEWTON, Iowa
LIKE his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel into washing machines.
When the plant closed last… Continue
Added by Ecolocitizen on November 2, 2008 at 2:23pm — No Comments
Hoping for a Green Renewal, Mich. City Will Turn Sewage to Fuel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 2, 2008; Page A09
CHICAGO -- Flint, Mich., has been famously decimated by the devastation of the auto industry. Now, even as automotive fortunes look worse than ever, the city of 115,000 northwest of Detroit is seeking to recast itself as a hub of green transportation.
Starting with sewage.
The city and local Kettering University have teamed up with a Swedish company to turn Flint's… Continue
Added by Ecolocitizen on November 2, 2008 at 10:26am — No Comments
Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money
Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press Writer
But there he was one morning, pitchfork in hand, composting food scraps from the main chow line and coffee grounds from prison headquarters -… Continue
Added by Ecolocitizen on November 1, 2008 at 10:41pm — No Comments
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