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The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com
Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. They offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply, and year-round crop production. The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.
Ecofont | less is more
Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.
Gale - The Sizzle - Archive Entry
Gale Offers Free Resources to Celebrate Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, Gale is offering free resources on its completely updated Environmental Resource Web site http://www.galeschools.com/environment/.
Browse the activities page http://www.galeschools.com/environment/activities.htm to learn more about endangered species, biomes, tips on “going green,” lesson plans and more, or download a free bookmark, poster or screensaver.
Tools and resources are available at http://www.galeschools.com/environment/tools.htm and include a parent’s and teacher’s guide for “experiment central,” details on environmental ethics and words to know.
Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living | WFIU Public Media
Earth Eats is a weekly radio program and podcast exploring local food and sustainable agriculture with recipes you can make at home.
The Guerrilla Gardening Homepage
The global hub for those who cultivate land as guerrilla gardeners. Let's fight the filth with forks and flowers.
How the city hurts your brain (Boston.com)
Scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting -- that's why Picasso left Paris -- this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.
Save the Planet, Save Some Cash (washingtonpost.com)
Despite what marketers of products such as bamboo cutting boards and vegan silk gowns would have us believe, helping the planet doesn't require forking over your paycheck. It's really about conserving, not consuming -- so going green should also save you some.
What the heck is "clean coal?"
In last Thursday's vice-presidential debate, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin seemed to be falling over themselves to demonstrate their support of "clean coal." What is clean coal, anyway, and should I be in favor of it?
Electric Cars at the Paris Auto Show - TIME
In the vast exhibition halls in southern Paris one color dominates: green. From the carpeting and lighting to the artificial lawn trimming and acid-green cocktail dresses worn by countless exhibition assistants, the message is hammered home that the industry has staked its economic future on the green revolution.
8 Ways to Green Your Battery Use: ENN
You may not realize how often you use batteries until you have to operate for a few hours without electricity. Batteries are great at keeping a charge in our mobile devices, but the components that help generate these charges wreak havoc in landfills.
You can use Earth911 to find out where to recycle batteries for a number of devices, including your car and cell phone. Here’s eight ways to optimize your battery use so you’ll create less waste in the first place.
Use the Web to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint - Wired How-To Wiki
Given the steady drumbeat of news about climate change, water shortages, food riots and high oil prices, many of us are pretty well-versed in the basics of protecting the environment.
What's lacking, particularly for us tech-lovers, are the tools to help us live our on-grid, totally Wired lives with the smallest possible impact. And we do need some help. If everyone lived like North Americans, we'd need at least five planets to support our lifestyles.
Here are some online actions you can take to "plug in greener."
This article is a wiki. Got extra advice? Log in and add it.
We Can Solve It
The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis.
EarthTalk: Do city ‘congestion taxes’ really help the environment? | csmonitor.com
Despite increasing green awareness and steadily rising gasoline prices, Americans and other denizens of the developed world – not to mention millions of new Chinese and Indian drivers hitting the road every week – are loath to give up the freedom and priv
The Future of Green Buildings (Newsweek)
Architect William McDonough draws his green-building techniques from the world around him. Before attending architecture school at Yale, he worked on a redevelopment project in Jordan and observed the clever way the Bedouins' tents utilized natural materials to protect them from the elements. His most ambitious project, a redevelopment of the Ford Motors complex in Dearborn, Mich., incorporates a "living roof" that features nearly 11 acres of vegetation to purify storm water and provide natural air conditioning. NEWSWEEK's Fareed Zakaria spoke to him about energy efficiency in architecture, the future of environmental design and the possibility of eliminating all industrial waste from the planet.
Design Notebook - Philippe Starck Turns His Attention to Ecology (NYTimes)
The first of his so-called Democratic Ecology products, a line he is developing in collaboration with Pramac, an Italian industrial group, is to be introduced in Europe this fall, and in the United States early next year. It is a miniature rooftop wind turbine, priced between $780 and $1,250, which Mr. Starck said can produce up to 80 percent of a home’s energy.
A Beautiful Mornin' For Democrats (New Republic)
Green issues are shaping up to be a key ingredient in the Democrats' strategy to turn disaffection with President George W. Bush's GOP into expansive down-ticket victories this November.
10 Green Concept Cars That Are Waaaaay Out There
Practicality is the last thing anyone considers when designing concept cars. A car made of glass? Windows like gun slits? An automakers' lawyers would kill those ideas faster than General Motors is killing Hummer.
But practicality isn't the point. Concept cars are flights of fantasy carrying auto design into the future. Since our future will be a place where a gallon of gas costs more than a gallon of Scotch, the students at Royal College of Art designed their cars that run on things like electricity and algal fuel.
Historic German Town Struggles Over Push for Solar Power (NYTimes)
MARBURG, Germany — This fairy-tale town is stuck in the middle of a utopian struggle over renewable energy. The town council’s decision to require solar-heating panels has thrown Marburg into a vehement debate over the boundaries of ecological good citizenship and led opponents to charge that their genteel town has turned into a “green dictatorship.”
Environmental Initiative Challenges K-12 Students To Develop Green Solutions : July 2008 : THE Journal
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has teamed up with Discovery and the Siemens Foundation to launch a new initiative called the "Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge." The initiative calls on K-12 students to develop green solutions for their schools, homes, and communities.
The initiative comprises several components, including introducing students to concepts in sustainability, educating students on environmental issues, building up STEM skills, and, eventually, connecting students with scientists to tackle environmental challenges through real-world projects.
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