Ryan Is Hungry
Ryan Is Hungry
RyanIsHungry was built to feature the stories of individuals, businesses and organizations making a difference in the world through sustainable and green practices and by hacking everyday life. Content on RIH was recently licensed to the PodTech Network for greater online distribution with the ...
PostSecret Picnic
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Last summer we had the opportunity to document the PostSecret Community Picnic. PostSecret is an online art project started by Frank Warren. Hundreds of thousands of people have mailed him postcards with secrets emblazed upon them. Every ...
Home Birth: DIY Labor and Delivery
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BTW: This video is safe for work and all ages, totally PG. Have no fear, there is nothing graphic in this video. Also we’ve received requests for DVD copies of this video. Please email us for details, ...
Rainforest Action Network- Kicking Butt, Taking Names
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We recently had the privledge to make a video about Rainforest Action Network, the non-profit envrionmental change maker. We first met Julie Wolk, RAN Grassroots Organizer, at the Bioneers Conference. Julie explained that RAN works to ...
Homestead Grand Tours
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I’ve been meaning to make this video for weeks. Check out our place and our gardens. We’re gardening using the Grow Biointensive methods we learned in Willits, CA from John Jeavons and Carol Cox. All hand tilled baby. ...
Rainforest Action Network- Kicking Butt, Taking Names
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We recently had the privledge to make a video about Rainforest Action Network, the non-profit envrionmental change maker. We first met Julie Wolk, RAN Grassroots Organizer, at the Bioneers Conference. Julie explained that RAN works to ...
Barn Wreck and Salvage
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On our way across the country to Virginia (our new home!), we stopped by Erik Nelson’s place in Vermont to help tear down a barn. He’s salvaging the wood to build a house on his land. Very exciting and a lot of hard work. ...
Rethinking Water: Greywater Guerillas Workshop
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We had the privilege of attending a very hands on greywater workshop courtesy of The Greywater Guerillas, a local Bay Area crew of experts who are passionate about teaching folks to use their water (twice) wisely. Greywater is water that ...
The Future Is Now: Jamais Cascio, Co-Founder of World Changing
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Jamais Cascio is all about solutions. He considers himself an ethical futurist- one who designs and executes resilient and sustainable solutions that will not adversely effect present and future generations. On his blog, ...
Big Announcement! We’re Moving to the Mountains…Literally
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Yep, it’s true. We’re moving back across the country to the mountains of Virginia. You might remember our video about recycled paper insulation that we were installing at Jay’s dad’s garage in Virginia…well, ...
Revisiting :: Swap-O-Rama-Rama: Don’t Commodify, Modify!
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As Jay and I prepare for a big move back to the East Coast (Rural Virginia/DC area to be exact-we’re officially bi-coastal now!), we’re dispersing most of our possessions back into the world via Craigslist, Freecycle and Etsy. ...
LED Lights replacing Halogens in Scotland
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Right now, Jay and I are touring Europe- basically we’re couch hopping at videobloggers’ houses! We took a short detour and stayed in a hostel in Edinburgh, Scotland. One of the cool things about this hostel was its energy ...
Alemany Farm: San Francisco Urban Farming
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Alemany Farm is a 4 acre, fully functioning urban farm nestled between a major highway intersection, a newly gentrified neighborhood on a hill and a housing project- the perfect place to grow some food! We got a tour (and some amazing ...
Food Not Lawns: No Lawn Left Behind
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Ever since we started living in a place were every square inch is growing something useful (to people and other creatures), our eyes are opened to the possibility of transforming lawns and other unused green space to grow food. Why water ...
Raising Chics from Scratch
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You might remember from our Stone Soup video that our little eco-village has started to cull our chicken flock to make room for new birds. For the last 2 months we’ve been learning what it takes to be mother hens and raise two dozen ...
GRUB: Bryant Terry’s Organic Soul Party
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Bryant Terry, co-author of the book GRUB: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, and Jason Harvey, founder of Oakland Food Connection, teamed up recently to have a totally organic soul food brunch. Hanging out with food justice foodies as of ...
Community Choice Aggregation: Power By The People
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I’m so sick of getting my utility bill and seeing that a huge majority of my money goes to pay for energy from Natural Gas and Nuclear (and in many places in the US, Coal). I want my money to go towards renewables and I’m not ...
Freshtopia Dinner Party: We Brought The Garden Greens!
Oscar, Tanja and Barb of Freshtopia fame invited Jay, Eddie Codel and I for a cozy dinner party at their place. Since we started gardening at the Eco-Village, we’ve become avid “chefs” and far healthier eaters. We were excited to share ...
Neelam Sharma: Food Not Lawns in Los Angeles
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Neelam Sharma is the Programs Director for CSU, Community Services Unlimited, an organization empowering South Central Los Angeles residents to eat and grow healthy food. The “Food Not Lawns” attitude towards neighborhoods, I ...
Community Services Unlimited: Rocking LA with Food and Beauty
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We first met the Community Services Unlimited folks at the Just Us For Food Justice Bioneers day. They told us we should come check out their work in community gardening in South Central LA. How could we not? These folks are on the front ...