Ever since we started living in a place were every square inch is growing something useful (to people and other creatures), our eyes are opened to the possibility of transforming lawns and other unused green space to grow food. Why water a lawn full of grass when you could water ...

You might remember from our Stone Soup video that our little eco-village has started to cull our chicken flock to make room for new birds. For the last 2 months we’ve been learning what it takes to be mother hens and raise two dozen newly hatched chics. Jay and ...

Bryant Terry, co-author of the book GRUB: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, and Jason Harvey, founder of Oakland Food Connection, teamed up recently to have a totally organic soul food brunch. Hanging out with food justice foodies as of late, we’ve been hearing a similar idea ...

I’m so sick of getting my utility bill and seeing that a huge majority of my money goes to pay for energy from Natural Gas and Nuclear (and in many places in the US, Coal). I want my money to go towards renewables and I’m not the only one. Many ...

Neelam Sharma is the Programs Director for CSU, Community Services Unlimited, an organization empowering South Central Los Angeles residents to eat and grow healthy food. The “Food Not Lawns” attitude towards neighborhoods, I must admit, is infectious. After hanging out with urban and suburban farmers in the last year, ...

We first met the Community Services Unlimited folks at the Just Us For Food Justice Bioneers day. They told us we should come check out their work in community gardening in South Central LA. How could we not? These folks are on the front lines of urban ...

As you might remember, we made a new worm bin after our original bin failed. This new one is doing great! The drainage holes in the bottom have helped keep it moist but not too wet, the shallow shape allows the worms to get to everything faster and ...

Recently, Jay’s dad started building on some property he owns in rural Virginia. The first structure built was the garage/workshop. Jay and I were eager for the chance to try out some green building materials as an alternative to the usual stuff. Before traveling over to the east coast for ...

Just Us for Food Justice is a youth track of the Food and Farming program at The Bioneers Conference that happens annually in Marin County, California. We had the privilege of hanging out with this crew of folks who came from as far as Costa Rica and ...

We met Allstar Organics co-founder, Janet Brown, during the Just Us For Food Justice Bioneers day up in Marin. I really liked what she had to say about the impending crisis that is climate change and the small scale human solutions through the food we eat. I liked ...

Link TV is a non-profit, independent satellite television station in the US. The station reaches 1 out of 4 homes with a television and was founded to air international and culturally diverse programs like the well known Mosaic: World News from the Middle East.

GRuB is an Olympia, Washington based organization created to connect youth with where their food comes from. GRuB runs a small farm and a local garden bed project to get folks growing food in their own backyards.

The Rainforest Action Network defends more than just the rainforest these days. Combatting corporate, environmental injustices, RAN works from the inside out- directly negotiating with CEOs to change their policies. At the same time, RAN proactively keeps the public informed of progress on key issues.

CommonDreams.org was one of the first progressive news aggregation sites on the web. Funded entirely by supporters, CommonDreams.org remains one of the most popular sites for International, Progressive and Environmental information.

When I was little, my best friend’s family never dried their clothes in their dryer but on a clothes line or indoor rack next to the radiators. In my house, we did use a dryer. I never understood their reasoning until now. Why use all that electricity or gas when ...

A Word of Warning: This is a graphic video. If you do not eat meat and think killing animals to do so is bad, you should not watch this video.

We live at The San Mateo Eco-Village, where we know our neighbors, garden together and learn how to live more ...

I know, I know - flying places is not very green at all, I hear ya - but getting to and from the airport can be. Recently, on a trip to L.A., I decided to bypass the forever clogged L.A. highway system and go the Green LA Girl route ...

The Green City Gallery is an eco-demonstration site/art gallery/community meeting and event space in downtown Berkeley, Calif. A collaboration between Bay Localize, an Oakland-based non-profit focused on post petroleum community empowerment, and Dig Cooperative, an eco-design crew helping to re-invent urban environments to be more sustainable. The ...

The Solar Decathlon is a competition between 20 international (but mostly U.S.) universities to build a solar, green and sustainable house that could be practically duplicated for the marketplace. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the contest requires teams to ship their entire house to the National ...

We were saddened by the death of our first worm bin because of some imbalance of moisture, acidity or bad paper products. We’re super-determined to continue the worm composting process with a homemade bin. We took the tray from our old bin (a big kitty litter pan) and gathered some ...

Burning Man is filled with hackers, artists and makers of all walks. We thought we would search out the energy geeks and see how they were utilizing resources out in the middle of nowhere. The obvious, most abundant source of energy in Black Rock City is the Sun. Solar ...

Every since we interviewed John Sullivan, Campaigns Manager for The Free Software Foundation in Boston, our heads have been spinning with the possibilities that ‘Free as in Freedom’ Software holds. If you’re looking at this on the Web, you’ll see that our site is a pimped out Wordpress ...

There are so many words to describe Burning Man that it overwhelms me. If you’ve ever attended the annual desert gathering of artists, hackers, hippies and yuppies alike (it all happens about 100 miles north of Reno, Nev., in Black Rock City), then you know what I mean. ...

Another conversation-starting, thought-provoking book. The Citizen Powered Energy Handbook by Greg Pahl is a great primer into the choices we have for community-fueled energy. Get it for cheap on Amazon or for free at your local library.