Last week Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement offended sustainable food advocates in the Bay Area by declaring that the food at the Ferry Farmer’s Market was boutique-y and prohibitively expensive. Here’s the report from the SF Chronicle. Needless to say, this didn’t make local farmers, like Steve Sando, of Rancho [...]

I love this article from The New York Times Magazine about 200-year-old houses. An excerpt:
If by “green architecture” we mean buildings designed to exist in harmony with environmental conditions, to conserve fuel and regulate temperature by “natural” means, then it is easy to forget that this did not begin with the invention of [...]

And by awesome, I mean awe-inspiring. Check out this BBC video.

(as seen at Inhabitat)
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May 2007:

We love green LA girl for the diversity of green living options she shares with her readers. Check out her blog, and then read her posts at BlogHer, where she’s a new contributing editor.
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Here at Green West we believe in sustainable solutions that work with our lives, that improve our quality of life and the environment. If you live close enough, biking or walking to work or for errands can be a truly win-win solution. Moving under your own power provides you with exercise, reduces your gasoline bill, [...]

More companies are publishing sustainability reports, says SocialFunds.com.
Scandinavians love their bicycles. Via Gristmill. Point of honor mentioned in the article: Green West’s home town is the only city to have earned platinum status from Bicycle Friendly Community.
From Treehugger: A black-screen version of Google, dubbed Blackle, might save 750 Megawatt-hours per year. Blackle [...]

(photo by Rob Lee, used under a Creative Commons license.)
This past Sunday, Jeff Opdyke penned his “Love & Money” column for the Wall Street Journal on “The (Too) High Price of Being Green.” Opdyke’s lament about the high buy-in costs of going green around the house struck a chord with this suburban mama:
I [...]

Container residence (and photo) by LOT-EK

There’s an interesting discussion going on in the comments of this post at Inhabitat and at Archinect about repurposing shipping containers as housing construction materials. Some folks find the resulting homes ugly; others suspect they’re unsustainable. You can learn about other container projects at Brand Avenue. [...]

This week Yahoo! debuted its Yahoo! Green portal. The site’s key feature is a tool that asks visitors to pledge to take simple actions, such as buying 100% recycled paper or inflating their cars’ tires, and then calculates for them by how many tons of carbon dioxide they will reduce their carbon footprint. [...]