Home Grown Food Challenge

The US plans for wind farms at sea, but studies from Carnegie Mellon University suggest that hurricane winds could destroy some.

Growing your own food lowers your carbon footprint, but can be expensive to get started.  Crops in Pots has some suggestions to make it easier on your wallet

The first license for tidal power in the US was given a few weeks ago.  Is hydrokinetic power the next thing in renewable energy? What do you think?

Disinfectants contain harsh, toxic chemicals. Take a look at how to disinfect a non-toxic way with Root Simple. 

Here are 33 to try out from The Daily Green.

Here are 33 to try out from The Daily Green.

Food variety has increasingly decreased with monopoly over the seed market.  Check out how to avoid homogenizing your garden and buying Monsanto seeds.

Boost Home Products has a series of kits designed for you to fix up your home to save water and energy from the Home Office Boost Box to the Garden Water Boost Box without too big of a hit to your wallet.  

Valentine’s Day is not exactly a sustainable holiday with the millions of cards and ecologically unsustainable roses.  Take a look at Ecocentric’s breakdown of the rose industry and what you can do to make the next one more sustainable.

If not, but you’re interested, here are a few tips form Winter Sown. 

Our current world food system has already been established as inefficient, but is the local food movement really making a difference, or is there more to be done? Scientific American takes a look in this article and even proposes a few solutions. What do you think? 

Planning your garden, but not sure what the difference is between heirloom, hybrid and OP are? Kitchen Gardeners has the answer for you. Do you have any favorite heirloom, hybrid or OP varieties? 

Boston may not be in it, but we still like Organic Authority’s growing list of the “top 9 US cities to live in if you love organic food.”  Did your hometown make the cut? 

On a budget and find it hard to buy organic food some days? Deliciously Organic has “15 Tips for Buying Organic, Real Food on a Budget.” 

Meir Lazar is combining aquaponics and gardening in a truly sustainable way that he calls the “next step in urban agriculture.”