Urban Farming: Novella Carpenter

Obsessives: Urban Farming
BY MEREDITH ARTHUR, ERIC SLATKIN, AND BLAKE SMITH
Novella Carpenter started small, with some plants in an empty lot next to her house in Oakland. A couple of years later, she was tending to a full-blown farm, with goats, turkeys, ducks, pigs, and a robust garden. Her book, Farm City, details her experiences. As does this video, which tackles questions of neighborliness (which is more offensive: police sirens or roosters crowing?), environmental poisons (raised beds are key), and the all-important slaughter question. The answer: Yes, she does (and yes, there is some bloody footage).


From: chow.com
link: http://www.chow.com/stories/11911

Carbon Footprint Reduction

This is just very entertaining. A flow chart on carbon footprint reduction from The Onion
Consider what the things you are doing to help the environment are really doing to help the environment.

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Re-purpose those troublesome shopping bags!

Are you like us and have no idea why you have been saving mountains of plastic shopping bags for god knows how long? Well the wonderful folks over at Etsy Labs have a great solution, turn your bags into a tough, flexible and useful plastic sheeting! You can find the tutorial on their blog, and it's quite simple, all you need it some paper and an iron and your already halfway there!


Now you can make all the stylish reusable shopping bags your heart desires, or if you do something creative why not reply with pics! We would love to post your great ideas of what to do with this eco-friendly material.

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