Green Roofs Are So Last Year; Rooftop Farms Are The Growing Thing
Chicago Sun-Times
Green roofs are wonderful things, keeping buildings cool and reducing heat island effects. But you usually can’t eat them. Now, rooftops around the world are being put to productive use as sources of food. Often they are tied to restaurants; Uncommon Ground in Chicago has a 2500 square foot rooftop garden. The executive chef tells the Chicago Sun-Times:
“We just used the peppers from the garden and stuffed them with chorizo. When things from the farm are ready, we’ll incorporate it however we can. I come up once a day to see what’s r…Read the full story on TreeHugger
What Does Kraft’s Takeover of Cadbury Mean for Fairtrade Cocoa?
Image from the Guardian
Kraft Foods takeover bid of Cadbury Chocolate has been followed with great fascination by t…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Future Green Trends – Top 5 posts on the Year + Decade Ahead From Around The Blogosphere
Having picked over the old bones of 2009 in Mairi’s Best and Worst Review it’s time to look ahead to the future. John Laumer kicks us off on an optimistic note with his Nine Hopeful Predictions For 2010, while Sara Snow cures our holiday hangover with the Best New Beverages of 2010, and Emma Grady keeps the style mavens happy wit…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Interview With Lee Reich, Gardening Expert, Author
Lee Reich.
The 2010 garden catalogs now arriving have me thinking about how to get the most out of my garden investment, whether climate change should be taken into account, and so on. After years of experimenting with such questions, I felt some expert insight would help with the climate change question, in particular. Fortunately, I was able to reconnect with old friend and seasoned “farmdener:” Lee Reich. I’ve been keeping up with Lee’s gardening books for years, including his latest – <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Landscaping-Fruit-Strawberry-blueberry-Homeowners/dp/1603420916″…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Will Vegetarian Humans One Day ‘Emit’ More Carbon Dioxide & Methane Than Cows?
Subtle Butt(TM) “disposable gas neutralizers.” Image credit:SubtleButt.com, via Garment Guard
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Presumably, many will have resolved to eat less meat during the coming year in the interest of protecting the climate from cattle farts. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Best and Worst of 2009: The Year in Food, Food Fights, and Future Food (Slideshow)
As the decade rolls to a close, we can look to 2009 as a pretty amazing year in food. From organic food to organic agriculture, genetically modified organisms to food shortages, and food fights to the future of food, it was a big year in food in 2009; here’s a look back (including a quick look ahead) at the year that was.
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Beef Association’s Beef with EPA
In a harbinger of environmental battles to come, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association filed a petition in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals this week, saying EPA climate regulations would hurt large farms. The EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gases is seen by many as a proxy regulatory measure for the Climate Bill whose regulations may be too little too late.
While it’s not terribly surprising that the NCBA would petition against the EPA’s measures, it does beg the question of whether any industry who might come under the regul…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Letters From Copenhagen: “Never, Ever Drink Coca-Cola Again”
In an impromptu press conference, two Coca-Cola employees publicly denounced their employer at the Copenhagen Climate Co…Read the full story on TreeHugger
UrbanBuds: Mobile Suitcase Garden For The City Dweller
Photo: UrbanBuds, Gionatta Gionno
In tightly packed urban settings, finding places to produce fresh food in close quarters can be quite frustrating for the conscientious urban dweller. Even more frustrating is wondering how to move one’s carefully-planted balcony or window garden once moving day comes. Eindhoven, Netherlands-based Italian designer Gionatta Gionno proposes a clever package, however: UrbanBuds is a mobile garden in the form of a suitcase filled with soil, designed to grow thirty-six different types of edible plants in all type…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Study Debunks our “Fetish Of The Fresh”? Not.
Photo of farmed Norwegian salmon NatalieMaynor via flickr.
Canada’s National Newspaper claims that a new study proves that buying local is not as Earth-friendly as it seems. It starts off with a loaded and offensive line, calling the local food philosophy “a guilt-reduction approach adopted by many environmentally confused but well-meaning shoppers”
Then the reporter, Jessica Leeder gets environmentally confused, and I hope guilt-ridden for her bait-and-switch journalism. S…Read the full story on TreeHugger