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Ryan Is Hungry

Ryan Is Hungry

Ryan Is Hungry

Hacking Everyday Life. Exchanging Notes on Survival. Compost, Vermicompost, Biofuels, SVO, Green, Solar, Electric Vehicle, DIY, Gardening

How To Make A Fire Starter

QuickTimeFlashOgg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close When Jay and I got a wood stove last fall, he surprised me with his Boy Scout knowledge, and made these little wax fire starters to help get the stove rockin’. ...
2 weeks ago

PostSecret Picnic

QuickTimeFlashOgg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close 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 ...
04/19/09

Home Birth: DIY Labor and Delivery

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close 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 ...
01/21/09

OpenCongress.org: What’s Happening In Congress?

QuickTime | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close We recently had the pleasure of making a screencast for OpenCongress.org, an open source, collaborative website that helps citizens keep track of everything happening ...
11/02/08

Oscar Grimm, Freshtopia.net, Rest In Peace

QuickTime | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Our dear friend, co-creator of the amazing Freshtopia.net, Oscar Grimm passed away last week after fighting brain cancer for the last two years. We are deeply ...
10/06/08

Kirsten Brydum, Rest In Peace

QuickTime | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Jay and I are shocked and saddened to hear that Kirsten Brydum, organizer of San Francisco’s Really Really Free Market, was found murdered in New Orleans ...
10/01/08

Beijing 08: Documenting Dissent

QuickTime | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close We recently returned from a 15 day trip to Beijing for this summer’s Olympic Games and what some would call China’s “coming out as a global super ...
08/31/08

Rainforest Action Network- Kicking Butt, Taking Names

QuickTime | Flash | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close 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 ...
08/20/08

Homestead Grand Tours

QuickTime | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close 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 ...
08/08/08

The Great Village: How To Homestead

Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close The Great Village is a videoblog born from the peeps who make Seesmic, a microblogging site for folks to converse through webcams. Think video version of Twitter. Recently ...
07/18/08

Kate and Rupert Growing Food In Canada!

QuickTime | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Rupert and Kate of twittervlog fame, have recently moved their family from London to a small town on the west coast of Canada. Having a little more space has allowed ...
07/17/08

Rainforest Action Network- Kicking Butt, Taking Names

QuickTime | Flash | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close 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 ...
07/15/08

Barn Wreck and Salvage

QuickTime | Flash | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close 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 ...
05/06/08

The Greenhorns: A Documentary About Young Farmers

QuickTime Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Can I get a ‘hell yeah!’? I was reading this article in the New York Times today about the resurgence of young farmers when I saw a link to The Greenhorns film. ...
03/16/08

Rethinking Water: Greywater Guerillas Workshop

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close 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 ...
03/14/08

The Future Is Now: Jamais Cascio, Co-Founder of World Changing

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Jamais Cascio is all about solutions. He considers himself an ethical futurist- one who designs and executes resilient and sustainable solutions that ...
03/09/08

Rainforest Action Network: Greenwash of the Week

The Rainforest Action Network recently started a video segment called The Greenwash of the Week. This was their first post and we thought it was clever, funny and it informed us of Virgin Atlantic’s most recent greenwashing campaign. It seems that ...
03/07/08

Old Barn = Free lumber

Flash | QuickTime | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Our friend, Erik Nelson, is famous for the Carp Caviar and Wreck and Salvage video projects. He has also recently bought land in Vermont where he ...
03/03/08

Big Announcement! We’re Moving to the Mountains…Literally

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close Yep, it’s true. We’re moving back across the country to the mountains of Virginia. You might remember our video about recycled paper ...
02/26/08