This autumn, my husband and I have been busily jumping on the local food bandwagon by buying up as much local produce as possible and preserving it to last us all winter. One of the the things that small farmers do in order to stay afloat in competitive markets is to create “value added” farm [...]

If you are a crafter you will love this idea, a yarn CSA. What’s a CSA? Watch the video, Susan does a great job of explaining. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It’s a different way of buying farm products. The consumer buys a subscription at the beginning of the season and gets a portion [...]

BBC News reports that according to Oxfam Biofuel use ‘increasing poverty’.
“Biofuel use ‘increasing poverty’
A palm oil plantation in Ivory Coast
Palm oil is one of the biofuel crops stirring controversy
The replacement of traditional fuels with biofuels has dragged more than 30 million people worldwide into poverty, an aid agency report says.
Oxfam says so-called green policies in [...]

Living in California it’s easy to get into the habit of having an inexpensive glass of wine with dinner. At the moment there is such an abundance of wineries that it is easy to find inexpensive and tasty bottles. Yet wine growing regions such as California’s Napa Valley may already be endangered. There is growing [...]

Green design superstars? In a review of the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum’s exhibition Design for the Other 90%, Christopher Hawthorne posits that the sustainable design movement needs some young superstar designers. He acknowledges that the products and solutions on display are quite good but argues that the movement needs its Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid.
Gratuitious [...]

May 2007:

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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 [...]