Mike FryOct 25, 2019Sustainability & TechnologyIt is a destructive form of planned obsolescence, a way of making our old stuff as obsolete as quickly as possible so that we need to go out
Our Urban FarmsOct 6, 2019Living Food and Why We Need ItOur digestive systems are themselves entire ecosystems of living organisms. We have as many as 100,000,000 microorganisms per ml of stomach
Mike FrySep 30, 2019The Day I Quit Smoking and What it Taught Me About Climate ChangeFor those uninitiated to nicotine addiction, consider this: it is the third most addictive drug, coming in just behind heroin and cocaine. O
George HammSep 23, 2019The backpack question--What would you chose to pack and bring with you?Maybe it's because yesterday was the global climate strike, or maybe it's just this time of year. I began to pose the question to myself--if
Our Urban FarmsSep 20, 2019World-wide youth lead us all in the climate strike movementFriday, September 20, 2019 should be remembered as marking the beginning of a greater movement toward building meaningful action and unity a
Our Urban FarmsSep 18, 2019Why Nuclear Power is No Solution to Climate CrisisThe DOE has a stated goal of cleaning the existing contaminated sites by 2025. Just one site in Fernald, Ohio has "31 million pounds of ura
Suzanne Stenson O'BrienSep 16, 2019comprehendere"Earth is a sphere. All our actions should be guided by this fact." —R. Buckminster Fuller
Our Urban FarmsSep 5, 2019Join Us For Fun and FoodAs the 2019 growing season comes to a close, we are celebrating the bounty the Earth has brought us. With the pantry stocked with another ye
George HammSep 2, 2019How I Became a Year-Round BicyclistI don't remember the exact day I began the process of becoming a year-round bicyclist. However, what began as a weekend adventure of short
Our Urban FarmsAug 31, 2019A Fun Way to Save the Planet: Make it YourselfAs we work to make a better future for ourselves, we look to do three basic things: 1) To restore things from the past that used to work well but that we hav...
Our Urban FarmsAug 27, 2019Bamboo, Because We Give a CrapPaper companies apparently think it is OK to wipe their butts - literally - with old-growth boreal forests. They are clear cutting them and
Our Urban FarmsAug 26, 2019Getting Ready for a New, Necessary and Better Way of LivingA soft and pensive voice says, "I think that most of feel that something bad is coming our way." The voice is that of a 13-year-old girl i
Our Urban FarmsAug 20, 2019Watch: Professor Jem Bendell Says Our Mother Earth Says #MeTooProfessor Jem Bendell, author of the acclaimed paper on Deep Adaptation, spoke at an Extinction Rebellion protest on April 15, 2019. Among the many powerful ...
Our Urban FarmsAug 20, 2019Tour de Sustainability and Excitement from Our Website First DaysOur new website is literally only a few days old and we are very excited about everything that is happening. Hundreds of unique visitors have already checked...
Our Urban FarmsAug 18, 2019Report: Urban Farms 'Critical' to Combat Hunger and Adapt to Climate CrisisA report from 2018 from Tompson Reuters Foundation has concluded that urban farms are critical to combat hunger and to adopt to the climate
Our Urban FarmsAug 15, 2019Welcome to Our Urban FarmsFor years we gave been working to transition our lives from being typical American consumers to living more sustainable and healthful lives.
