Growing Biointensive

A vegetable growing process that's documented through a couple of gardening books.

Automotive-free solar paradise

Andrew Revkin of the NY Times writes about the plans to build another attraction in the United Arab Emirates. This time it's targeting the ever-trendy environmental heat wave. ( Car-Free, Solar City in Gulf Could Set a New Standard for Green Design )

New Bike Paths for Mexico City

Eliza Barclay writes about the plans to add more bike paths in Mexico City.

Food or Fuel?

Keith Bradsher at the New York Times covers the 37% increase of food costs in 2007 and the many problems that are resulting throughout the Word because of the soaring fuel prices. This news is very unsettling and a wonderful response to the last article I mentioned. (A …

Rising Costs Felt at the World's Dinner Tables

A graph of food prices, oil consumption, and oil prices. (Rising Costs Felt at the World's Dinner Tables)

"Extreme Eating" goes anti-local

Joel Stein of Time Magazine provides a funny opposition to the farm-to-table movement (Extreme Eating).

Urban Farming in a Tower?

Environmental News Network informs of the plans to build a 30-story vertical farm in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas to Build World's First 30 Story Vertical Farm).

Capturing solar energy from the street

Autoblog Green explains how a Dutch company is capturing solar energy with asphalt. (In future, the road heats you - solar energy stored in asphalt)

Preview of Urban Harvesting Video

This is a short video that was created to briefly describe what the whole idea of Urban Harvesting is about. You can read more about it in the previous post listed below.

Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

The idea is simple and based upon the problem that most of the fruit that makes it into our grocery stores is transported great distances (1,000+ miles on average). All this energy, while a large percentage of fruit in people's backyard simply goes to waste because most …

Turn Cow Manure Into Alternative Renewable Energy

Joseph Gallo Dairy & Cheese Plant's methane capture provides 80% of the electricity for the plant from 5,000 cows. The farm uses waste water from the cheese plant to flush the manure from the cattle stalls. The solid manure is removed and the remaining liquid …

How To Stop A Coal Power Plant

In early 2005, a web site was launched for the Nevada Clean Energy Coalition. The coalition consisted of 22 organizations, and accumulated over 4,500 signatures opposing a Sempra coal power plant that was planning to be built in Northwestern Nevada.

In March of 2006, …

World's First Hybrid Train

Terra Daily covers the inuagural trip of the first hybrid train in France ( World's first hybrid train makes inaugural trip in France ).

Modular Book Shelving

This is an interesting modular concept covered by Collin Dunn. It allows you to take handle of your book shelf, one row at a time. ( Books to Go: Modular Shelving for Multi-Use Space )

Cotton and Tomato Trade

An interesting article about the wasteful journies of cotton and tomatos in an international trade. ( Cotton and Tomato Travels: The Absurdity of World Trade )

Chair Made From Recycled CDs

Collin Dunn shows us an interesting chair design (Recycle Your CDs, Build a New Seat with Panda Chair ) from recycled CDs.

Aptera Diesel-Electric Hybrid

Kate Andrews covers the Aptera Diesel-Electric Hybrid ( APTERA Diesel-Electric Hybrid Car On Sale Now! ) Release.

Endangered Plants and Animals in the UK

Jasmin Malik Chua covers a story on a nice information design that puts endangered species across the alphabet ( Present&Correct Spells Out ABCs of U.K. Endangered Plants, Animals )

Whole House-Off Switch by Jack Godfrey Wood

As means of reducing wasteful electrical consumption, Jack Godfrey Wood came up with a design concept for a switch that simply turns off your whole house. Well, maybe everything that doesn't require a constant electrical source.

This product acts like a hub for all …

Nanosolar to print photovoltaics

Nanosolar, a small company in Palo Alto changes the solar cell game by passing on Crystalline Silicon. Instead they plan to print thin film materials and follow the high speed fabrication processes used in some of the larger scale electronics manufacturing.