Get Energy Smart! NOW!

This guest post comes from Jim O’Donnell who, in real life, has explored the taiga and provides consultant services on permaculture and greening the urban environment.  The idea of greenign the urban environment via paths that contribute to shifting our agriculture to a more sustainable path is one that is quite appealing. Whether Edible Estates‘ [...]

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Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies. Fascinating … exciting … even hope inspiring at times. And, as well, as the passion builds, so many of these are truly Energy COOL.
Innovative combinations of rather straightforward, [...]

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Here is a guest post from the passionate citisven about the potential for urban farming
A good friend of mine who is a backyard beekeeper in Oakland invited me to meet his fellow urban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Novella has taken the [...]

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A few days ago, guest poster Jill Richardson brought us exciting news with the question “Can Organics Save Us from Global Warming?” Jill excitedly brought news of a new study from the Rodale Institute entitled REgenerative ORganic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming. After now having taken the time to read this report, [...]

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Jill Richardson is an extremely interesting, provocative, and fresh voice on the web in the arenas of food and agriclture. She is a founder of La Vica Locavore. This is, with permission, a cross-post of her latest piece.
Last weekend, I visited the Rodale Institute as part of the 2008 Community Food Security Coalition Conference. [...]

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Two Washington Post articles in the past week provide an interesting little localized contrast of the challenges related to finding a path toward an Energy Smart future.

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In the face of the potential for catastrophic climate change and global warming, “geo-engineering” is an arena getting a little attention and some press, such as W Broad, NYT Times 
Geoengineering is the deliberate modification of Earth’s environment on a large scale “to suit human needs and promote habitability”. 
One can argue that all efforts to control [...]

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Bait and switch … To an extent, many energy activists feel like they’ve been distracted with a shiny object (the “Energy Independence Security Act”) while dirty dealing has been going on behind our backs.

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Well, this is the season for giving (and, well, okay, getting).  Lots of donations to give, many on the energy/global warming front for me. But, someone passed me a gift idea/site that seems worth passing along.  Family Farm Defenders has a series of sustainable farm product packages that are affordable and give a taste of [...]

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EcoGeek’s recent coverage of An Off-Grid Vertical Farm for Downtown Seattle garnered some attention and generated discussion. But we should recognize that it is far from the first or only really interesting concept for going vertical in growing food in urban areas.
A Columbia University microbiologist, Dickson Despommier, advocates 30-story skyscrapers that would, each, be able [...]

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