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Go Green with a Mighty Wallet

rprice — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:56:27 +0000

This is not an ad, I just thought this thing was cool. A great way to recycle plastic, and props to the designers for creating something reusable and smart.

http://www.dynomighty.com/mighty-wallet/ – Mighty thin, mighty strong, mighty green! The revolution in Tyvek® wallet design began with this super thin single folded sheet of Tyvek® created by Terrence Kelleman in 2005 for Dynomighty Design. First sold at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Mighty Wallet® is quickly becoming the most popular wallet on the market because of its durability, longevity and ecological features. Check out all the styles available at our site and be sure to FAN US on Facebook to get all of our latest updates and special offers. Be Mighty!

Citylicious: A Movie About Growing Food in Cities

rprice — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:11:38 +0000

Seen on Facebook:

Learn more about or donate to the Sustainable Economies Law Center’s Urban Agriculture Program: www.SustainableEconomiesLawCenter.org

The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) is working with a team of interns and volunteers to explore the legal needs of a growing urban agriculture movement. We are developing an online Urban Agriculture Legal Resource Library, and designing resources and presentations that explore legal issues that relate to urban agriculture, including: land acquisition, zoning, property taxes, land covenants, health codes, building codes, nuisance laws, land conservation tools, and so on.

The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) facilitates the growth of sustainable, localized, and just economies, through legal research, professional training, resource development, and education about practices such as:

· Cooperatives
· Community-supported enterprises
· Barter
· Sharing
· Local currencies
· Intentional communities, ecovillages, cohousing
· Affordable housing and limited equity housing
· Urban agriculture
· Community-based renewable energy
· Community land trusts
· Social enterprise
· Microlending
· Local investing
· Co-op banks/credit unions

Video: Green Sky Growers in Winter Garden

rprice — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:35:03 +0000

Orlando Event TV interviews Ann Lemis of Green Sky Growers, a technologically sophisticated and sustainable rooftop garden in Winter Garden, Florida.

This 4th-floor hydroponic sustainable garden is located immediately next to the Garden Theatre in a city called Winter Garden, which is just comical. Green Sky sells their lettuce and other products to 8 local restaurants and at the local weekly farmer’s market. See more video about Winter Garden at the Daily City.

Community Supported Agriculture in Tampa/Brandon: Lancaster’s Hydroponic Farm

rprice — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:59:31 +0000

Locally grown organic produce delivered right to your door every week, if you live near Tampa. The Lancaster’s Hydro Farm website says they are located in Brandon.
From T.S. Elliot’s YouTube Channel:

I get a weekly deliver of a fruit and vegetable basket from a local farm. I describe how i am going to use forever bags to store the produce. Do a search in your local area for the same service.

Do you have CSA in your area? Are you a subscriber? How much of your weekly food for meals is actually grown locally?

Video: Day of Climate Change (350ppm) at Orlando Brewing

rprice — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:42:14 +0000

Gabe LeBlanc from EcoFactory.com tells us about the worldwide demonstration to raise awareness about the 390ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, but we can only support 350ppm safely. Go to 350.org for more info. Shot at Orlando Brewing.

Gabe bought 350 beers for the first 350 people to show up at 3:50pm in a demonstration he called a “carrotmob” or a “joycott”. I think it’s something like a flashmob, but with a very specific purpose. It was a lot of fun, and I was glad to be able to support a great cause.

Video: Slow Food Orlando Pot-Luck

rprice — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:37:47 +0000

In the ground floor of an otherwise trendy (and empty) condominium building in College Park, there is a shining beam of local light called Harmoni Artisan Meal Market. They are known to host many local events, most recently was a Slow Food Pot-Luck Dinner.

This is awesome for a number of reasons:

Hand-made food
It was all grown locally
Community
Deliciousness
Someone made a video about it!

Video: Preserving Lemons at MakerFaire

rprice — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:00:06 +0000

This video combines two of my favorite things: MakerFaire Videos and fresh fruit. Thanks to @OrganicNation for putting them together!

When Life Gives You Lemons, Preserve Them! from OrganicNation on Vimeo.

From Organic Nation.tv – A Quick Tutorial On How To Preserve Lemons (Video):

We caught up with blogger/foodie/activist Rachel Weidinger, who also happens to be an expert preserver, at her Homegrown Village booth at MakerFaire 2009 in San Mateo, California. She showed us how to preserve fresh lemons with salt so they will last a year and taste delicious added to omelets, hummus, salads and pasta:

Special thanks to Homegrown.org and FarmAid for putting on this great event! You can fiind more tips from Rachel on her blog AKitchenOfHerOwn.com or follow her on Twitter @Rachelannyes.

-Dorothee

Encourage a shrunken ecological footprint with active feedback and games

rprice — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:22:05 +0000

This video belongs to the InsterestingSouth event that was held in Sydney, Australia on November 22nd, 2007. There was a fun talk by Juan Mann, the Free Hugs guy, who was looking for a free place to live at the time, and some other talks by some wonderful creative and informed people.

The video I want to focus on is a talk give by Dan Hill, who is a design, web, media, city, travel, culture, architecture, music, creative type of fellow. He takes several ideas and mashes them up to make you think about a world where you measure your usage of resources, and the possible logical ends of those measurements. You really have to watch the video to get the meaning. Go on, click the link and come back, I’ll wait… It’s a little over 10 minutes, just to warn you.

The Well-Tempered Personal Environment: Chucking social software at your local energy sources, giving you a personal energy profile, which can then be aggregated to your street, your mates, your neighbourhood, your region, your city etc.

They start playing “These boots are made for walking” because he’s passed his 10-minute time limit – each talk at InterestingSouth is between 3 and 10 minutes. The event is only one night, and doesn’t take very long, but I’m sure everyone walks away with a head full of new ideas, inspiration and questions.

I’m interested to see what people can think of once we collect 5 years worth of that data, or 25 years. After a century, the world will be in a completely different place. Who knows what our great grandchildren will have moved on to then?

Dan’s blog post about The Well-Tempered Personal Environment

See the ‘Facebook App’ slide from the talk

Watch A Local Folkus, Learn About Central Florida’s Local Food Movement

rprice — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:03:44 +0000

I finally got to watch John Rife’s awesome locavore video, and I now feel very educated and inspired to explore and sample some of the places and foods he introduces us to in his first installment of A Local Folkus.

I’d like to post a lot of relevant links to go with this video, but that will take a little while. Check back soon for some more info.

Grocery Store Wars

rprice — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:11:25 +0000

My friend John Rife posted a link to this video, and it was just exactly the kind of thing that makes you smile and get angry at the same time. The people who made this video must have been total geeks – Thai fighters? Tofu-D2? Really?

Anyway, the message is simple – save the organic farms, save the cheerleader – wait, maybe it’s “with great food comes great responsibility”, or… you decide.

Drink Your Water

rprice — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:25:25 +0000

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I like to fill up my Nalgene bottle every morning before I leave the house. It keeps me hydrated and recuces waste while saving me some money. It’s a no-brainer.

Green Lube on Treehugger TV

rprice — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:49:32 +0000

A great resource for all things environmentally friendly is Treehugger.com; one thing they don’t shy away from is how to Green your sex life. Personally, I think if one is going to make the effort to lower their impact on the planet, sex is one area where one shouldn’t skimp.

Here’s a video I recently came across that takes you to NYC’s Babeland, a sex shop where they sell eco-friendly lubes and toys. Check out the original post on Treehugger for more video: How to buy Green Lube.

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Video: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

rprice — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:40:11 +0000

Download Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Sandra Diaz and Jeremy Seghers of Carbon Productions speak about the issue behind this year’s Heart of Coal, Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. Heart of Coal was a theatre production at the 2007 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival. Sandra points out iLoveMountains.org as a place to go for more information on the issue.

For more information about Orlando Fringe, check out OrlandoFringe.org, MySpace and our sister site, Blogging Fringe.

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