Dan Collyns: An initiative to collect moisture from the thick sea mist around Lima represents an inventive, cost-effective solution to the ever-expanding Peruvian capital's shortage of water
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Review of The Resilient Farm and Homestead (978-1-60358-444-9): Author offers straightforward advice on how farmers and homesteaders can use the resources around them to their, and the environment’s, advantage.
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A double-hit. The book provides a framework for permaculture efforts at a small scale that can aid in building the resilience of communities. The review is from our own (local northern Michigan) ForeWord Magazine.
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Whole Foods Market will build a greenhouse farm on the roof of its forthcoming store in Gowanus, Brooklyn, which will open in fall of 2013.
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I have a few plants growing on top of my VW camper van, but none with the intention of this.
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Curious about the effect of buying locally made products on the environment and economy? CustomMade explores the impact of your purchase behavior in an insightful infographic. (Yes!
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Probably my favorite #infographic of all time. Just fair warning, I'll be stealing this.
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Spanish company, Arup, is piloting a new form of green building which uses algae to generate biomass and heat as a renewable energy source.
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Put out the welcome mat for certain animals in your garden and they will assist in the fight against pests.
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Agricultural Futurist: lessons from New Zealand's Icebreaker http://t.co/wxtsBXvW3u http://t.co/zRBdigpGHU
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For Americans, the economy is likely to remain sluggish for several years, but the long-term outlook isn't nearly as bad as the pessimists say.
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Analysis from Time Magazine on the persistence, or not, of the global economy. Can it last? When will it fail? And how will it show its effect on the US's own recovering economy?
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For Melissa and Sean Kickbush, brewing a strong pot of joe has become more than a morning routine: it's become a career, and now their success is creating a bit of a local economic wave.
Bill Palladino - MLUI's insight:
This is a great article about the power of local economy in real-life. Thanks to Melissa and Sean at Brew for creating such a great place. I must admit to using it as my "third place" a lot. In fact, my colleagues at MLUI often use it as our alternate conference room for meetings. Cheers too to Beth Milligan for covering the story.
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March 22, 7:59 AM
This is a great article about the power of local economy in real-life. Thanks to Melissa and Sean at Brew for creating such a great place. I must admit to using it as my "third place" a lot. In fact, my colleagues at MLUI often use it as our alternate conference room for meetings. Cheers too to Beth Milligan for covering the story.
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March 24, 12:55 PM
Network Traverse City was there before they opened to lend a hand in social media :)
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What would we gain from investing in rail, especially high-speed rail? In short, lots: in a new documentary experts discuss the environmental, economic, and human health benefits.
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Our transporation expert, James Bruckbauer [@jimbruckb] has been working hard to make the pieces of trail transport fall together here in Michigan. A lot of news on this front coming from Detroit by way of Lansing.
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You no longer have to settle for a boring boxy coop for your backyard brood. Here are eleven coops that break the mold.
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It's mid-march, and if you're like me you're waiting for another annual Coop Loop event in Traverse City. Here's some fodder for the comfort and pleasure of your feathered companions.
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The inventor of the energy return on investment (EROI) metric argues that economic growth could soon stop—and that we need to get smart about incorporating the true cost of fuel in energy policies...
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I'm hopeful that all the recent mainstream energy hubbub can move us forward to take action on impending energy bottlenecks. When a learned journal such as Scientific American is covering the economics of energy, it's time to listen.
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Phoenix, Arizona is infamous for its sprawl, its little stucco boxes, and its dominant car culture, but an ambitious project aims to change the way Phoenix’s light rail is developed.
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Light rail still making the grade as a transportation solution. But it takes decades to plan and even longer to fund sustainably.
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You could be exposed to hazardous vapors without your knowledge! Checkout our infographic & get a free environmental report.
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Ah, the fascinating concept of vapor intrusion. Haven't you always been curious?
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Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) April 26, 2013 On April 26, Colle Farmers Market issues a response to an article published by the South China Morning Post discussing the increase in portable farming in Chinese cities.
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This story is really about Chinese urban farms, but references Colle Farmers Market, a new, online "virtual farmers market." Check it out here.
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Too often community projects favor one of these approaches over the other: the design team who drops in for a week with the solution, or the community workshop that recycles the same, old idea for its downtown’s redevelopment.
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The term "outsider" is fascinating in the context of development and community design. There's never any real definition of the word. I've lived in communities for a decade or more, and still been considered and outsider.
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I have spent the last few days looking up and considering the architectural impact of the New York City grid-plan layout, taking a particular interest in the domestic scale elements that help to service the city and punctuate the rigidity.
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I am an admirer of the grid. Not in a Matrix sort of way, but in the organic nature of true design; how it all fits together. And also the way in which many older cities have designs overlaying centuries old patterns of community and commerce. When I was in high school in NYC, Van Cortland park had an infamous section of it's cross-country running course title The Cow Path. And that's what it was, a winding, twisting, haphazard loop around the park based on the trails cut by the Van Cortland's cattle. This article likens it all to poetry.
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A section of disused Somerset railway has been converted into the longest cycling tunnel in Britain, almost exactly 50 years since the Beeching Report forced large-scale closures of the rural rail network.
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Almost worth another trip to the UK for this. I'll put it on the list.
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As the economic crisis ravages their country, a community of Greek farmers is prospering. Their cooperative specializes in saffron, the world's most expensive spice, which is keeping the community afloat and attracting global attention.
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It was thought Belfast's bus lanes were about to be flooded by 2,000 taxis – but now it looks like the figure could be as high as 4,500.
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WASHINGTON -- Are you ready to stand up and move? An initiative from the American Heart Association, National Walking Day is a nationwide effort to highlight the health benefits of walking and get Americans active for at least 30 minutes every day.
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I've been to all these cities. I grew up in New York (#1), and lived in Minneapolis (#9) for almost a decade. It's the sense of the city that calls me back. I love to walk, especially when that's balanced with a quality public transit system, and a safe way to get around on two wheels.
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In the past several years, scores of people living near wind farms have claimed to have been sickened by noise from the rotating blades. They have complained of everything from headaches and depression to conjunctivitis and nosebleeds.
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First heard about this on NPR. We are amazing things we humans. Think of the implications of this phenomenon on organizational group-think. Wow.
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Philadelphia is pushing it in terms of incorporating green stormwater management infrastructure into urban revitalization efforts with an ambitious $2 billion, 25-year program for urban neighborhoods.
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Looks like it's the City of Brotherly Energy Effiiciency.
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While electric vehicles like Teslas are slowly gaining traction, is there a place for the pedal-powered car?
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My kind of Bi-Fuel vehicle!
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Looking for a silver lining to the prolonged economic recession and real estate downturn?
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This story is local to Sarasota, Florida, but includes some interesting connotations for relating the condition of the job market with traffic flow planning.
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Cities have always been shaped by transport; and the planning and design of cities has always impacted on transport choices. But car dependency can also limit our social lives.
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With the opening quote reading "Cities have always been shaped by transport..," the obvious next question is "what kind of transport should cities of the future be shaped by?"
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This is a great story from Peru.