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Around The Web July 2010
Eco Cycle Zero Waste Systems
Rather than looking at our production systems as one way and linear, we can redesign them to be cyclical, as in nature, where there is no such thing as waste and materials are kept in the production cycle. Zero Waste is emerging as a paradigm shift, a new, comprehensive socio-technical system that addresses our resource use from product design to disposal.
Extreme Knitting
Rachel John, Extreme Textiles, broke records by knitting with a 1000 strands simultaneously! This video shows the set up of the event and the event itself. This event took place at the Southhill Park Unravel Textiles exhibition in October 2006.
Serenbe Farms Supper Club
Enjoy a tour of the beautiful Serenbe Farms Supper Club.
Around The Web June 2010
More Will Allen from Fresh the Movie: www.FRESHthemovie.com.
6ft 7" former professional basketball player Will Allen is now one of the most influential leaders of the food security & urban farming movement. His farm and not-for-profit, Growing Power, have trained and inspired people in every corner of the US to start growing food sustainably. This man and his organization go beyond growing food. They provide a platform for people to share knowledge and form relationships in order to develop alternatives to the industrial food system.
Americans Wake Up: Car powered on compressed air:
Europe and the rest of the world are developing new technologies that will give them the economic edge in technology and products, as America unthinkingly erodes into a third world nation as our politicians who are beholden to fossil fuel companies, legislate for them to make billions of dollars. A car that runs on compressed air, is a French invention that orchestrates old technologies into a new chassis. Behold this newsworthy clip (that is not ready for U.S. corporate controlled prime time news or even political debate) edited from HD Theater, "The Future Car: Fuel". Just another example of how corporations who control our legislative and executive branches of government are misallocating our resources, treasury and wealth, to insure their short term wealth and global domination, as we deteriorate economically and do nothing to preserve our economic leadership.
Carbon Neutral Homes
Design is also a number one focus. We design a home to fit your needs and budget and also take into consideration all the factors in your home with features if you were to sell your home. We bring into the home all the natural elements like stone, wood etc to create a earthy feel and overall balance. This gives your home the Wow factor and creates a serene atmosphere.
Around The Web May 2010
Will Allen
Urban farmer Will Allen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008. The Fellowship is a $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.
The Produce Garden
This is a page dedicated to smallholding and all its aspects from growing organic fruit/veg, rearing livestock, gardening, self-sufficiency, rural living, my feelings and dramas, cooking and everything in between! www.theproducegarden.com
Path To Freedom
Since the early 80's the Dervaes family has slowly transformed their ordinary city lot into a self sufficient urban homestead. View an eco-pioneers life on an urban homestead as this family shares their homegrown revolution, being the change they wish to see by living the solution.
Around The Web April 2010
Grist.Org
Grist.org serves up environmental news, commentary, and green living advice, all designed to inform, inspire, and link America's next generation of green citizens. Also, we're funny.
CHOW
CHOW is a new kind of food media. Not only is our subject matter different—about the parties you really want to throw, the meals you really want to eat, the gear you really want to have—but we deliver it to you in audio, video, and everything else the Web's got to offer. Come to us for recipes, instruction, news, entertainment, discussion, and advice.
GARDEN TIME
Producer of the Garden Time tv show and owner of a video production company. Garden Time is the number one garden TV show in the Pacific Northwest. This half hour show is seen for 39 weeks each year. It features how-to stories and the newest in garden tools and plants.
Around The Web March 2010
Wicked Plants: Join bestselling author Amy Stewart from www.gardenrant.com as she takes on Mother Nature's most appalling creations. Her new book, Wicked Plants, is an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, Stewart presents tales of bloodcurdling botany that will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.
Peak Moment: Tour the century-old organic Chaffin Family Orchards where even the animals are "farm hands." Visit chickens in their egg-mobile, scratching for bugs and pooping fertilizer in the heirloom stone-fruit orchards. Goats chomp off low branches from the olive trees, so no fuel or human labor is needed. This certified predator-friendly enterprise includes 200 acres of olive trees plus various fruit and nut trees; sheep, goats, broiler and egg-laying chickens.
Kichen Gardeners: Together, gardeners and good food advocates pitched in to help give the White House and the Obamas a healthy kitchen garden. Now it's time for gardeners around the world to work together again on a much bigger challenge: feeding a growing population with a rapidly degrading natural resource base and in a rapidly changing global climate.
Around The Web January 2010
City Farmer
For almost 30 years, City Farmer has taught people how to grow food in the city, compost their waste and take care of their home landscape in an environmentally responsible way.
Green Power Science
A science website for free power. Dan and Denise host their Green Science Show. Learn about electricity and wind power.
Cooking up a story
Cooking Up A Story offers a variety of shows and news about sustainable food and living and those working to change our world for the better through agriculture, ecology, and the environment.
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