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 ...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things
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The book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart has been a good touchstone for the new green movement. Ideas like zero waste and designing products that have an almost infinite life cycle were crystalized with it’s publication. ...
Green Guerillas Give PG&E A Run For Their Money
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A few months ago we did a story about California’s primary utility company, , campaign. The green posters were all over the city of San Francisco. Our initial reaction was, “Cool! A corporate utility company is actually ...
EcoTuesday: Green Business Networking Can Be Fun
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Nikki Martinez and Oren Jaffe started as a chill networking event for Green business folk to interact with each other. Structure is the key to success at EcoTuesday. The event opens with speakers from various green backgrounds- a good ...
Eliminating Waste, One Pancake At A Time
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We’ve been thinking a lot about how much trash comes in and out of our apartment. We recycle and compost a lot of stuff, but some things, like plastic wrappings, just have no where to go but the garbage. Thinking on a more micro ...
Making vs Consuming: A Conversation with Wendy Tremayne
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We are constantly bombarded with images and advertising pushing us to buy more, buy better, buy often. What happens when we stop buying so much and start making? More innovation, more creativity and more knowledge can be shared.
, founder ...
Swap-O-Rama-Rama: Don’t Commodify, Modify!
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You might recognize from our here on RyanIsHungry. Wendy founded as a way to break out the consumer cycle of shopping for clothes. Utilizing the abundance that just a few people’s closets can bare, adding a little creativity with ...
Food Hacking: A Conversation with Marc Powell
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It’s not every day you get to hack your dinner with an anarchist, computer whiz, chef- unless you are one like . We had the pleasure of attending a and hanging out for a bit before the cooking frenzy. Marc shares hison ...
Marc Powell: Community Building Through Food Hacking
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is an anarchist, hacker chef who opens up to strangers and friends every Thursday to cook up some amazing, hacked food creations. Attending a food hacking supper club is a mind expanding experience that teaches folks not to be afraid of ...
The Gift Economy: Really Really Free Market SF
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A beautiful day in the park, a fresh homemade meal, some free clothes and books- what could be better? , as opposed to the Not-So-Free , breaks down the myth of scarcity and encourages us to take advantage of the abundance all around us. ...
Real Goods: We Took a Workshop at The Solar Living Institute
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, home of (one of the first Green Catalogs), is like a big, green playground. The 12 acre plot was developed as a demonstration site for renewable and clean technologies like solar and wind power, green building and permaculture. We were ...
Wild Foods: A Conversation With Sunny Johnson
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Continuing of , we explore her past experiences eating ultra local foods for a year, why she started blogging and vlogging and her outlook on what the future hold for humans and the earth together. We love , go check it out and learn how ...
Sunny Johnson: Wild Foods Are All Around Us
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What if the price of gasoline spiked to $10 a gallon? What if we couldn’t get all the food we needed trucked into the supermarket like we’re used to? Plant enthusiast, wild food harvester and videoblogger, Sunny Johnson of , ...
Co-Working: Independent Workers Unite
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Many people strive for the freedom that working for themselves and freelancing brings. You can work odd hours in your pajamas at home, travel to exotic locals but still be on the job, not have to clock in at an office. After the initial ...
Girl Talk: Illegal Art At Its Finest
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Gregg Gillis aka is best known for his , super hot beats and, most controversially, that his music is entirely derived from other popular artists. Under current copyright law, Girl Talk’s blatant use of samples is considered ...
Cooking Green: Cast Iron Will Rock Your World
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Have you ever cooked with a non-stick skillet and had the non-stick surface flake off after a few months? That super slick surface is made up of many harmful chemicals that should absolutely not be eaten! What’s the alternative to ...
Treasure Island: San Francisco’s Sustainable Land of Tomorrow
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San Francisco’s Department of the Environment is leading the initiative to fully redesign Treasure Island- a 400 acre human made island in the San Francisco bay. Originally built for The World’s Fair in 1939, ...
Vermicomposting: Changing The World 1000 Worms At A Time
Can you tell that we’re into our worm bin? As you saw in our last worm bin update, our bin had been getting a little sludgy and unproductive. Jay went online and found a source to buy red wigglers for cheap so we could bump up the composting ...
Green Blogging: Green LA Girl
Siel aka Green LA Girl, has been blogging about her personal experiences with green since 2005. Using her blog as a journal, a conduit and a clearinghouse for practical green information and advice, she urges her fellow Los Angelites (and beyond) to ...
Green Blogging: Green LA Girl
Siel aka Green LA Girl, has been blogging about her personal experiences with green since 2005. Using her blog as a journal, a conduit and a clearinghouse for practical green information and advice, she urges her fellow Los Angelites (and beyond) to ...