Cvillian, 40-something, mother of 2; full-time Realtor, quasi-vegetarian & local foods devotee, rapidweaver, quilter; trying to find more hours in the day, like you.
GrowFood connects farmers interested in teaching with people interested in farming. We can help you: Work on a farm this weekend; give your kids a real farming adventure; spend some time working in exchange for room, board, and experience; build a career for a lifetime.And change the world. Our mission is to help grow a community of 50 million new small-scale organic farmers. That's how many it will take to break America's dependency on factory food.
One small step in the right direction for low income urban dwellers with really poor food sourcing options.
Autism was first identified in 1943 in an obscure medical journal. Since then it has become a frighteningly common affliction, with the Centers for Disease Control reporting recently that autism disorders now affect almost 1 percent of children.
Over recent decades, other development disorders also appear to have proliferated, along with certain cancers in children and adults. Why? No one knows for certain. And despite their financial and human cost, they presumably won’t be discussed much at Thursday’s White House summit on health care.
Yet they constitute a huge national health burden, and suspicions are growing that one culprit may be chemicals in the environment. An article in a forthcoming issue of a peer-reviewed medical journal, Current Opinion in Pediatrics, just posted online, makes this explicit.
Haven't we all suspected this for years?
It took more than a month for the container ship Ebba Maersk to steam from Germany to Guangdong, China, where it unloaded cargo on a recent Friday — a week longer than it did two years ago.
But for the owner, the Danish shipping giant Maersk, that counts as progress.
The Eugen Maersk at port in Bremerhaven, Germany.The Maersk line has halved its top speed..
Anti-Express Shipping. What will those Crazy Danes think of next?
Check out this great blog by Cvillian Rose Brown about her year without garbage.
The team at Nest Realty Group has been working for months on an exciting project to support community gardening in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area, which we call Tom's Garden. Our website went live a few days ago: I hope you take a look and let us know what you think! We are pretty stoked about Tom's Garden and look forward to this initiative bearing fruit...or vegetables, as the case may be!
What Is the Portable Light Project?
More than 2 billion people live without electricity, most in extreme poverty. The Portable Light Project creates new ways to provide renewable power in solar textiles that can be adapted to meet the needs of people in different cultures and global regions. Portable Light textiles with flexible solar materials and solid state lighting enable the world’s poorest people to create and own energy harvesting bags, blankets, and clothing using local materials and traditional weaving and sewing techniques in an open source model.
Portable Light enables people in the developing world to benefit from flexible solar nano-technology and accelerates the movement to clean energy worldwide. Learn More
Donate Visit our old website Contact usThe Rocky Mountain Institute, America’s leading think and do tank for renewable energy, is working with the Portable Light Team to scale the project.
Stylish, simple, sleek and modern … are still not words we are entirely used to using when we describe the cold, cramped, enclosed rectangular boxes known best for shipping freight around the world on giant water vessels. More than many container home concepts, however, this design manages to bring together the best of modular thinking, mobile living and comfortable dwelling.
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