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How does your vegetable vocabulary grow? (a quiz)blogs
Quick. How many vegetables can you name? Make a list and don't read below.According to the Center for Disease Control, less than a third of us eat the recommended amounts of daily veggies, and this is including fried potatoes (i.e. french fries) in the category. Part of ...
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2 weeks, 3 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
America's post fast food era & Europe's oldskool land loversblogs
"Don't you think America is preparing for a post-fast-food period whereas Europe is slowly entering the fast food period?", wrote my Belgian friend Veerle in an email last week. It's a big question so I'll back up and explain how we got to this point from a ...
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3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
Sustainable yard: drip irrigation, thyme groundcovervideos
The days of installing sprinklers systems for large grass lawns may
be numbered in much of the United States. A growing public awareness
that water is a limited resource, especially in much of the West, is
causing many of us to rethink what we plant and how we water.Unless ...
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6 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
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How to build a backyard greenhousediy
Once you've started growing your own food (if you haven't started yet, see our report American garden revolution, our video An urban Victory garden or our DIY How to grow a vegetable garden in a small space), the next step toward even more alimentary self-sufficiency and more hyper-local ...
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8 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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A greywater system kitchen with marmoleum floorsvideos
To create a sustainable kitchen, consider flooring with marmoleum and putting in a greywater system. Linoleum which hit the market 50 years ago as a product of natural oils has since become a petroleum-based product, but you can go retro with all natural marmoleum. And to water your garden with ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Vegetable garden in a tiny space, 100% re-used materialsdiy
My garden has finally been started. It has been a long time now since I first decided to, but at least I didn't wait until mid-summer when it would be too late to plant. I built the planter entirely out of scrap wood I had saved from past hauling ...
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10 months ago by: BioDieselHauling user 1 comments
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Growing a veggie garden in a small spacediy
You don't need much space to plant a veggie garden. If you just have a windowsill, you might want to opt for some herbs or if you have a sunny sliver of siding, you could hang a living wall. Financially, growing your own food makes sense: for every $1 ...
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10 months, 3 weeks ago by: faircompanies faircompanies 1 comments
At home with an accidentally-eco Spanish grandmavideos
On the list of carbon emissions per capita, Spain comes in at #51, far below the US, Canada, Norway and Australia (at 10, 11, 12 & 13, respectively). While it's been getting recognition as a world leader in solar and wind power, the country's eco-friendly customs don't get ...
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1 year ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Indiana Forest Alliancediy
The Indiana Forest Alliance is a coalition of groups working to involve residents of Indiana in protecting their state's forests.
Campaigns
National Forests: Working with National Forest Protection Alliance, the Indiana Forest Alliance works to educate the public, the media, and elected Representatives on the damage and waste associated ...
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1 year ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
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John Muir Projectdiy
The John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute wants to end all commercial logging in the United States forests, as John Muir himself envisioned more than a century ago.
Their immediate goal is to end all timber sales on federal public lands of the US and redirect the timber subsidies ...
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1 year ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments