Amy Seek of Flatbush Farmshare's conception of what a vegetable garden outside City Hall might look like. Image via People's Garden NYC.
If the White House has one, and the city halls of Baltimore, Portland, and San Francisco have (or had...) them, why not New York City? I'm talking about planting vegetable gardens right out front. That's what the people behind People's Garden NYC are pushing for, creating a petition urging Ma...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The last great extinction occurred sixty five million years ago. You can visit the exact point on earth where it started, on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The Chicxulub crater, more than 110 miles in diameter, was formed by the enormous impact of a meteor the size of San Francisco hitting the earth. Life on earth changed radically from that moment of impact....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Musician Christopher Willits performs in "The Illuminated Forest." Photo by Michael Smith via Soundwave.
What does "green" sound like? Artists and musicians in San Francisco are attempting to answer that tricky question with a series of avant-sound performances and shows, including a month-long installation that allows visitors to explore an illuminated "forest" that changes with their presence, reflecting the impact people have on real Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo via Hayes Valley Farm
I was just at Hayes Valley Farm this past Sunday, volunteering at the urban farm turning a crumbling freeway into crop land for local food production and education. I was working within 15 feet of two bee hives the entire time and barely noticed the insects as they went about their busy day. With bees acting as such neighborly workers, buzzing around to pollinate our city's plants and produce fantastic honey, ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photos via Save The Bay
Cargill, a Minnesota-based agribusiness goliath, is looking to spread its real estate ownership to San Francisco. However, its planned development of as many as 30,000 residents is aimed at an ecologically vital area of the bay -- the Redwood City salt ponds. Cargill calls it an industrial wasteland, but agencies who issue permission for development stress that the 1,436 acres of wetlands-turned-salt-ponds are anything but, and need to be restored to their former glory. Those opposed include everyone from the Water Board, th...Read the full story on TreeHugger
