Douglas Mallette Lecture Oslo Norway.
Resource Based Economy – Global Sustainability
This farm provides organic food for a farmers market, CSA, and six organic restaurants, has zero carbon footprint, uses rainwater instead of irrigation, keeps chickens & rabbits for manure and nutrients, and uses compost for soil. It’s a closed loop system: everything that goes out can come back.
Where is this 6,000 square foot model organic farm? On a rooftop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Meet The Eagle Street Rooftop Farm.
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The Liberal Life: Recycling: By the Numbers
With 40 years of efforts to increase recycling, from the 70s where you had to bring everything to a recycling center, to the curbside blue bin making even the laziest of us able to easily do our part, we’re now barely pushing 30% recyclable waste recovery as a country.
- 544,000: Trees…
Source: treehugger.com
