Tag: Community Gardens - Page 5
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Live Local: Finally, a Social Networking Website With Purpose
Live Local is the digital equivalent of hanging over the fence and chin wagging with your neighbour, sharing stories about what's worked for you and what hasn't.
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Outdoor "Tree Museum" Celebrates a Community Centennial—and Trees
Living sculptures that defy gravity, that's how Yann Arthus-Bertrand describes trees in his inspiring environmental documentary Home, released on World Environment Day.
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Ankara Garden Plots Going, Going, Gone...
In the shadow of Istanbul's old city walls, enterprising urban farmers have carved out small plots of land to grow vegetables, adding a welcome bit of greenery to the roadside as they
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Flower Power Thwarts Burglars in Japan
Studies have shown that hospital patients make a speedier recovery when they have a exposure to living vegetation, like trees and flowers. And certainly great metropoli are made even more liveable by their extensive parks and gardens. Now it seems that
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Survey: Have You Started to Grow Your Own Vegetables?
The Obamas have done it. The Queen of England has done it. On a train ride across suburban Long Island on Saturday there where countless vacant places in people's yards to do it. Of course the 'it' being, growing your own vegetables. Whether it be in
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Highline Opening, Biking During London's Tube Strike + 5 More Transport Stories of the Week
This week the public were finally able to walk on the beautifully renovated disused railway line that is the Highline in New York. On the other side of the pond abandoned railway tracks were also making headlines due to the Tube strike in London. As
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Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability: Victory Gardens are Back!
During World War II ordinary citizens across the country did their part for the war effort by planting victory gardens to lessen the demand on the food system caused by the war. Some have suggested that sustainability is about returning to the more
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7 Things I Wish Every City Would Do to Make Urban Living Even Greener
Though it sometimes might not seem so, living in cities is a pretty green thing to do. Two prime reasons being that average home sizes are smaller and transportation distances are generally shorter, both leading to lower
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FEMA Trailer Transformed Into "Garden On Wheels" & Donated To Mobile Art Center
Image of The Armadillo's retractable shell which conceals a hybrid composter, and vertical planting walls (via Side Street Projects) We've brought the innovative, mobile art education non-profit Side Street Projects to your attention before and now, the
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People to the Power: Energy Utility Provides Community Garden Plots
DTE Energy, of Michigan, previously came to our attention when we noticed that had a bunch of their power plants 'wildlife certified' by the Wildlife Habitat Council. Turns out they are still doing rather unusual stuff with those power stations.
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Adventures on Earth Day with TreeHugger's Writers (Slideshow)
TreeHugger loves having voices from all over the globe, especially on big green days like Earth Day, when a bunch of us can chime in and give perspectives from all over the planet. We gathered up a few from earlier this week -- Earth Day and the Green
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Green Apple Festival 2009: Added Value at Red Hook Community Farm, Brooklyn NY
As part of this year's Green Apple Festival Earth Day events in New York City, Erin Hollingsworth from Planet Green and I had a chance to help out Added Value on the Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn. Over 50 volunteers showed up and pitched it to
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Green Apple Festival 2009 San Francisco: Graham Hill Heads to Koshland Park and Garden (Video)
We can't underscore enough the importance and impact of community gardens on getting people to go green. That's why of the many events
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Green Apple Festival in Seattle: Cleaning up the Angel Morgan P-Patch Community Garden
To help celebrate the Green Apple Festival this year, I volunteered to help clean up the Angel Morgan P-Patch Community Garden in Seattle. With the weeds starting to poke through last year's mulch in the flower beds, the garden
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Car-Free Suburb Planned for Melbourne, Australia
Given its recent devastation by bushfires (which continue as we write) the Australian state of Victoria could do with a good news story. And this might be it. A design has been
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(Some) People Have Spoken, and They Want an Organic Garden on Obama's Lawn
Democracy can be a tricky thing. Take the results of recent voting at Change.org and OnDay1.org. These two social network sites let users express concerns to bring to the Obama Administration and then vote on their own
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From the Forums: Volunteering?
I was wanting to volunteer with some green/eco friendly projects in my area. Is there a website to find out what's going on or to get put on a list for this? greenteadrinker:
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Renew Magazine: Solar Lawn Mowers and Community Wind Farms
Renew magazine has, for well over 25 years, been the digest that Australians have turned to when they wanted detailed how-to information for living a more sustainable life. A large part of its appeal has been its down-to-earth persona. This is no
