Friday April 23, 2010

worms are going to eat my garbage!

I’m very excited. Today, I got worms. Red wigglers. The kind that eat trash – food scraps to be exact. Now I won’t have to cart my compostables to the Union Square Farmers Market (a train

Categories: action blog food/drink Tags: composting

Thursday April 22, 2010

happy pale blue dot day!

An excerpt, via gizmodo:

The spacecraft was a long way from home.

I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too

Categories: blog events Tags: holidays

Monday April 19, 2010

queens gets its first food co-op

When you’re living near THE infamous food co-op in Brooklyn (you know the one) and around the corner from one of the best farmers markets in town, and new CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture outfits) are popping

Categories: agriculture blog community food/drink Tags: cooperative nyc

Tuesday April 13, 2010

how do you ring in the spring?

Weather warming. Trees greening. Birds chirp-chirping. Flowers blooming. All signs point to Spring! Mother nature is awakening her creatures from Winter’s slumber – that includes you, too!

What do you do to signal the arrival of Spring?

It’s

Categories: blog health home Tags: air quality cleaning seasonal

Tuesday March 30, 2010

riffing on an already improvised recipe

Waking up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window, slowly getting out of bed, looking out to see the dark day – I knew this was a day for muffins.

What kind of muffins was the

Categories: blog food/drink Tags: local organic recipes vegan

Friday March 26, 2010

sun in bloom eco-eatery

I just came from Sun In Bloom, my friend Aimee’s new holistic eco-eatery on the border of Park Slope and Prospect Heights, where I had a delicious live vegan burrito made with sunflower seeds, yummy spices,

Categories: blog food/drink Tags: brooklyn organic raw food vegan

Thursday March 25, 2010

no wars & no cars: an evening with richard register

Is New York primed to become an ecocity? How do you imagine life in such a place? Richard Register has some ideas…

SPECIAL EVENT

No wars and no cars: Ecocities according to Richard Register
A talk and discussion
Wednesday, March

Categories: blog events Tags: ecocities green building permaculture regional economy transition

Monday March 22, 2010

recreating wilderness with reclaimed materials

This past weekend, I participated in Urban Wilderness Action Day, part of Eyebeam’s ElectroSmog Festival. My friend Kris & her hubby Pascal put together this little video recapping my role in the day.

Check

Categories: action art/craft blog Tags: nyc trees

Monday March 15, 2010

urban wilderness action day – this saturday!

It’s been quiet on this little blog for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been hard at work on a project. An urban wilderness intervention project to be exact. It all goes down this Saturday, March

Categories: action art/craft blog Tags: fun nyc wilderness

Wednesday March 3, 2010

big river, big dead zone

What happens when loads of nitrogen from chemical fertilizers get washed from commodity crop farms down the Mississippi and into the Gulf of Mexico? A big fat dead zone is what happens. A dead zone roughly

Categories: blog environment food/drink movies Tags: agriculture oceans wildlife