March 2012
22 posts
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Lower Your Energy Costs →
Save energy and money, here are 10 tips to lower your energy costs.
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Where Is Your Food From? →
Want to know more about your food at the grocery store? German interaction design students are re-imagining the meat, cheese and fish counter.
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Smartphone Apps for Sustainable City Planning? →
Are smartphones and apps the key to growing more sustainable through city planning with our growing population?
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Geothermal Heating →
Ball State University is installing the nation’s largest geothermal heat pump proejct to replace a coal fired heating-colling system to cut carbon emissions and heat and cool 47 buildings.
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Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food →
The USDA just launched “Know your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF) Compass” that shows USDA support for local and regional food projects, info about local food infrastructure, careers in agriculture, stewardship, local food and more.
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Farm City Fund →
The Farm City Fund is a loan fund just for urban farms and businesses supporting urban agriculture in NYC.
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Cebu Urged To Garden in Backyards →
The government of Cebu in the Philippines is encourages people to grow vegetables in pots or their backyards to help in the shortage of high value crops.
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Pet Shelter Planters →
Have a pet and like indoor plants? Loft Dog makes lightweight concrete pet shelters that double as planters.
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Urban Wall Gardens →
Vertical gardens not only make walls attractive, but could also help eradicate air pollution or could be used to grow food.
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DIY Produce Bags →
Grocery store produce bags are a source of avoidable waste. Learn how to make reusable produce bags and make a few of your own this weekend.
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Taste for Organic in Hong Kong →
Hong Kong’s desire for sustainable, organic food is growing, showing that knowledge about food sources, their effect on their environment and nutrition are growing!
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Will this warm winter bring more pests to your... →
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Square Watermelons →
Mix up your gardening and grow sqaure watermelons. Weird or cool?
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Skyfarm →
Cities continually have less space, but Manuel Dresmann’ Skyfarm plans on utilizing increasing balcony space to grow food.
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Pop-Up Mushrooms →
A pop-up gallery farm in Seattle is growing mushrooms with local coffee grounds in the front and talking climate change in the back
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The Top 5 Renewable Energy States →
Massachusetts is the 5th in renewable energy in the US! Check out the top 5 states in energy.
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Is nature good for our health? →
BBC took a look and it looks like your yard is more valuable than you may have thought.
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Posidonia Oceanica Endangered by Climate Change →
The oldest living thing, a seagrass in the Mediterranean, is threatened by climate change. Thoughts?
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Interested in edible flowers? →
Nasturtiums are a great first choice.
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Boston Urban Farming →
Higher Ground Farm founders John Stoddards and Courtney Bissonette are in negotiations to plant their rooftop gardens in Boston’s South End. We’re getting very excited.
