From an empty swimming pool to a movement.
I feel that our gardens have a special function in times of stress. Whether we're suffering from public crises or private losses, all are soothed by time in the garden.
Some ideas don't fade, they simply adapt to changing circumstances. So we found in the rolling hills outside of Sonoma, California, home of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center on 80 acres of organic gardens, orchards and wild lands.
Corporate greed and systemic corruption must be addressed at all levels of society if we desire to leave a legacy of hope for the next generation.
Way too many of us believe we can't go green because we live in the city, have no land, have a small apartment, etc. etc. So we continue to be slaves of the supermarket.
Artist, educator and fashion designer Sasha Duerr uses just about anything to dye clothing: from kitchen waste to invasive "weeds" to the leaves, fruit or petals of nearly any tree or plant.
We can plant edible "food forests" across the cities, suburbs, and former monocropped fields.
Remember that old song: "If you're not with the one you love, love the one you're with"? The words keep running through my mind as I listen to many of our friends who dream of someday owning traditional farms and farmland.
The unique cornerstone of Nouvelle Vie Haiti is to shift the mindset of an entire generation. Wilner and the rest of his team are doing just that.
Some 500 visitors from as far as Australia and as near as neighboring Chalmita are learning to live together under the blue skies and bright stars of an itinerant ecovillage conceived more than a decade ago.
Efforts throughout Africa to promote staple crops -- high in calories but lacking in essential nutrients -- have ignored the importance of indigenous foods.
Over 80% of the glaciers in Glacier National Park have melted. The last 25 are expected to vanish from glacier-dom in the next ten years. Kaput. Over. No more glaciers in Glacier National Park within a decade.
Just because fall is around the corner doesn't mean we are throwing our hands up in the garden this year. Gardening does not end in September.
Check out this new video about how a subdivision farm works with the restaurant just a few yards away, which serves their food often just hours after harvest.
Today's big news stories -- the wars, the eco-disasters -- all seem to have the same gaping hole in them. This hole is lack of awareness, and its thru...
Recently I was privileged to spend some time in Belize with Albert Bates, co-founder of The Farm in Tennessee, the Global Ecovillage Network, and a prolific author and a visionary for our times.
Powers' book provides for an entrancing account of his time living in No Name Creek North Carolina after accepting an invitation from Dr. Jackie Benton to live in her cabin which has a 12 X 12 footprint and is completely off the grid.
Most Malawians think of foods, such as amaranth and African eggplant, as poor people foods grown by "bad" farmers. But these crops may hold the key for solving hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Malawi.
I'm interested in minimizing my impact while promoting social change. When I learned that the Marda Permaculture Farm had a system using donations to plant trees in Palestine, I decided to go that route.
I Live Here has found its voice through what I have learned in Malawi. We found our voice through mistakes, which I am sure we will continue to make and hopefully learn from.
Being an official Party in the COP15 meetings, I sat bewildered as all the agreements we were working on got sidelined by a document that a small group of 30 nations, led by the US president, inserted into the agenda.
Permaculture is a path towards sustainable living that is patterned on the way nature works, and can be applied in rural, suburban and urban areas.
Thoreau said education often made straight-cut ditches out of meandering brooks. But not at the EcoDorm, which houses 36 undergraduates and is the spi...
Environmentalists are now finally realizing that this is actually a problem of human psychology and human behavior, not just climate science, technology or resource scarcity.
The enemies remain the car, the superhighway, the notion of endless oil and the willingness to grit teeth and accept the constraints of what passes for life in metrosprawl.
