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 Pickards Mountain - I
from YouTube :: Tag // carolina
July 16, 2008
Pickards Mountain is a community of residents, staff, friends, and visitors on a 350-acre piece of land in central North Carolina. The community at Pickards Mountain seeks to establish a "mutually enhancing relationship between humans and the Earth," and share the principles and practices of that relationship with the broader population of the state. This video, shot in 2005, features interviews with most of the residents and staff and provides a snapshot of what the commnity was at the time and what it dreamed of becoming. For more information on Pickards Mountain please visit www.pickardsmountain.org Author: makemeturquoise Keywords: organic permaculture biodiesel natural building green environment wind power solar yome Added: July 16, 2008
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 Did You Know You Can Rent Solar Panels??
from Metacafe - Today's Videos by Metacafe
July 14, 2008
For far to long now solar panels have only been available to people with enough money to afford them. This has changed. Most American homeowners now have a choice to rent solar panels for a flat monthly rental rate that would be locked in for up to 25 years. There's no installation cost, NO permit issues, No maintenance fees, and No system to purchase. Please visit www.maketheswitchtosolar.com or call me Joshua Dekelaita at 602 418 2823
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 Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia
from Speaker's Forum Podcast
July 11, 2008
Do you like your job? Do your best ideas and energies go into your work? Chris Carlsson says there's a creative social revolution going on, but not on the job. He says hobbies and side projects are where the real work is being done. Chris Carlsson is the executive director of the Shaping San Francisco history project. He helped launch the Critical Mass bicycle rides in San Francisco in 1992. His latest book is Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today! He spoke at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle on June 22, 2008.
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 july at 719 - let it be
from CitizenJournalism - recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
July 06, 2008
the garden is lush and bountiful, almost all the potted plants (tomato, pepper, cilantro, dianthus, lettuce, etc) have been placed and there's little room left for anything else until the garlic, rutabaga, fava, potato, and peas are finished - then it's time to plant winter crops.
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 The Composters: June 30th Radio Program #1
from Ourmedia MediaRSS Feed
July 02, 2008
Take a Look at What Mother Nature's Wearing is a weekly radio program hosted by Mary Mercury and Glenda Greenhouse of The Composters. Every Monday they dish the dirt on the personal, political and environmental, mixed in with some good music. This Week: Al Gore's Opera, North Pole going ice free, and Permaculture expert Wayne Weisman is in the studio!
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 Food Not Lawns: No Lawn Left Behind
from recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
June 05, 2008
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 a lawn full of grass when you could water and grow salad greens, root veggies, herbs, squash, tomatoes, peppers, the list goes on and on. In this video we used some scrap wood to build a raised garden bed over a 7 x7 patch of driveway gravel. Not only do we pluck the greens for dinner, it looks a lot nicer than the dumping ground of found materials that it once was. If every neighborhood had even a few lawns turned into gardens, we could start hyper-localizing our food supplies and getting to know our neighbors- because, after all, you re going to want to trade gardening tips! Correction: Thanks to Nicole who commented below that this garden bed is 49 sq feet (or 4.5 sq m), not 14 sq feet (which would be 7+7 not 7 7, duh). Thanks Nicole!
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 Stone Soup: We Know Where Our Food Comes From
from recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
June 05, 2008
A Word of Warning: This is a graphic video. If you do not eat meat and think killing animals to do so is bad, you should not watch this video. We live at The San Mateo Eco-Village, where we know our neighbors, garden together and learn how to live more sustainably. Part of living sustainably is eating local foods. Harvesting food from the garden and raising hens for eggs is about as local as you can get. When our neighbors Amy and Malaki arrived at the Eco-Village, they noticed a lack of eggs coming from the hens. Both have an agricultural background from years of working on a farm in Kenya. What do they do in Kenya when a bird gets too old to lay? They eat it. The whole damn thing! So we, as a community, decided to do just that. Most of us had never experienced living with chickens, let alone killing them for dinner. Growing up in the United States allows us to be vastly ignorant of where our food comes from- meat and vegetables alike. We thought this would be a good education for us city kids. The interesting part to me was the difference in methods between Brian, co-founder of The Eco-Village and Bay Area Native, and Malaki who grew up on a farm in Kenya. Also I thought it would be way more physically dramatic- you ve heard the saying running around like a chicken with its head cut-off . Well, it s true. Even after the chicken has died, the body still moves around and spasms. Though it was not the most pleasant experience to watch an animal die at human hands, I do know that these birds had a peaceful life full of good food and loving owners. That s saying a heck of a lot more than all the meat that is factory farmed and trucked to our grocery stores.
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 Oakland Food Connection: Educational Rooftop Gardening
from Videoblogging - recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
June 03, 2008
Jason Harvey, director of The Oakland Food Connection, has an exciting vision for bringing real examples of practical gardening, food security and nutrition to urban schools. By partnering with the Bay Localize Rooftop Resources Project and community leaders like Lisa Blair, principal of EC Reems Academy, an elementary charter school in East Oakland, Jason has been able to create projects like this rooftop vegetable garden. Utilizing a valuable, unused space on the roof of EC Reems Academy, Jason s crew of local high school gardeners get down to business and build a half dozen garden boxes soon to be filled with plant and vegetable seeds. These vegetables will serve as more than just a healthy meal, they ll help educate kids and their parents about the possibilities that exist beyond processed, packaged foods and the often limited variety of produce sold in stores.
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 Kevin Bayuk: Urban Permaculture
from Videoblogging - recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
May 29, 2008
Kevin Bayuk rents an apartment in the Haight Ashbury district of San Fransicso. He also grows a large amount of his own food, actively composts, raises ducks and captures rainwater- total urban permaculture. One might think you need to own a large plot of land in the country to create an abundant food growing system, but Kevin proves this theory wrong on a number of counts. Often the density of an urban community is a hundred times greener than suburban areas because resources are so close together. You can walk to the store or take an electric bus over to work. Kevin shows us how he practices urban permaculture in all aspects of his life- from growing food to educating his community. Check out the Urban Alliance for Sustainability and Daily Acts for more info on getting hip to urban permaculture. Thanks Kevin!
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