Like I mentioned earlier this week, I’ve been getting more into gardening, mostly growing my own food. It’s tough to keep that up in the winter! Most of my plants have seen better days

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Spotted: Indoor Herb Garden

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What began as an experiment in window farming became a crowd-sourced answer to our industrialized food system. When Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food, she didn’t let her tiny New York apartment stop her.

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Window Farms and the Power of Crowd Sourcing

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As the days of November tick by and Thanksgiving draws ever closer, it’s impossible not to enter a grocery store and now be instantly greeted/accosted with amped up sales and the mass overhauls to utiilize every last inch of floor space with even more food than a grocery store already deems “normal.” While I realize that the majority of us do actually eat more than usual on Thanksgiving (statistically, the average American consumes as much as 3,500 calories at Thanksgiving dinner), I also find it exceptionally hard to imagine that we’re really actually using up all this extra food that’s being carted in for our purchase.

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Can We Cut Food Waste on The Biggest “Food Day” of the Year?

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When we think about packing lunch, we probably imagine brown baggin’ it to school, but kids aren’t the only ones that pack their lunches! Here are some packed lunch ideas to help you save money and eat better at work. It’s definitely easier to run down to the cafeteria or hit a fast food joint and grab a bite on your lunch break, but most restaurant food is tough on the wallet and not so hot for your health or the environment either.

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Packed Lunch Ideas Without the Waste

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A great little graph (and more here ) from Scientific American about the problems with eating meat.

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Some of you will have seen this before, but it's Spring and a lot of people have been asking me about worm composting.

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Slimy pets to eat your garbage and entertain your kids

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That jar of jam or pasta sauce is useful long after you’ve eaten the contents.

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Craft Recycled: 3 Crafty Ways to Reuse Glass Jars [slideshow]

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I hear a lot of folks say that they can’t grow food because they live in a small space, but that’s not true at all. While it might feel like your tiny apartment doesn’t have room for any green, there are all sorts of clever ways to squeeze some food plants into a small space. Here’s some small space garden inspiration to get you going.

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Small Space Garden Inspiration

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Here's a talk I gave a few months ago, in which I argue for a new definition of progress. I argue that we should not just be aiming to “sustain” our current way of life. Instead, we should be looking for a way of life that is both better for the planet and better for us

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To hell with sustainability

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When office workers at a Tokyo outsourcing firm complete their computer work, they don gloves and boots and get to work in the building’s 1,000 square foot indoor rice paddy.

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Urban Farming: Rice Paddy in a Tokyo Office Building

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