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A Fresh Idea on Frozen Food

In the fall of 2007, Contessa Premium Foods opened the first environmentally responsible, LEED-certified frozen food manufacturing plant in world. Known as “Green Cuisine,” the plant is carbon neutral. So, what is LEED? Standing for, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, it is a third-party certification program, which regulates design, construction and operation of green buildings. [...]

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Low-Income Green Initiative?

And you thought “green-building” was only available to the financially elite of our society…  Until very recently this preconception has led to a yuppie-fied view of the sustainable building industry.   It’s been brought to our attention, by several notable national non-profits, that it’s time to shift the core of this paradigm to the more [...]

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The Truth about my Green Roots

People often ask me how I came to be green. I tell them it’s the leprechaun blood. Seriously, I owe my green roots to my dad. He is the one who has inspired many of my so-called cockamamie (as my hubby claims) ideas. Now my dad is a mixture of Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, the [...]

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Waterworld-esque

Coastal cities also have do deal with climate change.  There are many different ways they could deal with this problem, but this is one imagination straight out of Waterworld. These newly designed cities are self-sustainable and can produce more energy than they waste in theory.  They also look like lilypads. Here is the story about the Lilypad [...]

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Farms That Scrape the Sky

In my last post regarding urban gardening I had considered, but eventually omitted, mentioning one long-shot possibility: vertical farming. It seemed too outlandish, too far reaching. “Maybe when pigs fly”, I thought. Well Babe and his porcine ilk might be sprouting wings and taking to the skies sooner than anyone had thought. Dr. Dickson Despommier (professor [...]

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Urban Gardening’s New Agitators

Urban gardeners have long had one complaint: Not enough space. New sets of upstarts – who exist at varying spots on the social spectrum but share radical horticultural thinking and ingenious use of space – have city green thumbs thinking outside of the window box. On one end stand the guerilla gardeners with their ramshackle tools, [...]

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