Signs of the Times
Out on a recent stroll in the neighborhood I (Mike) saw some signs in a yard that made me laugh out loud in a kind of tragic irony sort...
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Our Urban Farms
- Jul 1, 2021
We Are Not Helpless Victims of the Climate Crisis. We are the Cause of it.
As we prepared this blog post, both the east and west coasts of the USA have been engulfed in record-setting heat waves, the likes of...
Our Urban Farms
- Jun 21, 2021
Another Must-Watch Film: the Biggest Little Farm
We recently wrote about the film Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet. Then we watched another must-watch film, the Biggest...
Our Urban Farms
- Jun 20, 2021
Must Watch: Breaking Boundaries - A Netflix Original Documentary
As I type this, the western United States is engulfed in a record-breaking heatwave and drought. At the same time, sea levels continue...
Our Urban Farms
- Mar 13, 2021
Bernadette the Sustainability Chicken
We often hear from people who want help promoting sustainable living. Our answer: Bernadette, the Sustainability Chicken. When we began...
Our Urban Farms
- Jan 5, 2021
Growing Indoors: Great Winter Fun
Each year we do what we can to expand the growing that we do. This winter, we decided to expand our indoor growing space and we have had...
Our Urban Farms
- Apr 29, 2020
The Very Dangerous Thing Nearly Everyone Gets Wrong About Alternative Energy
Before getting too far into this post, we have to first say that we have a pretty large (18 panels) solar array on our house. We love it....
Our Urban Farms
- Apr 1, 2020
The Collapse Has Begun - And That Might Be OK
The Collapse Has Begun Deep Adaptation. Those of us who have been anticipating, talking about and planning for social and economic...
Mike Fry
- Sep 30, 2019
The Day I Quit Smoking and What it Taught Me About Climate Change
For those uninitiated to nicotine addiction, consider this: it is the third most addictive drug, coming in just behind heroin and cocaine. O
George Hamm
- Sep 23, 2019
The 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 Farms
- Sep 20, 2019
World-wide youth lead us all in the climate strike movement
Friday, September 20, 2019 should be remembered as marking the beginning of a greater movement toward building meaningful action and unity a
Our Urban Farms
- Sep 18, 2019
Why Nuclear Power is No Solution to Climate Crisis
The 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'Brien
- Sep 16, 2019
comprehendere
"Earth is a sphere. All our actions should be guided by this fact." —R. Buckminster Fuller
Our Urban Farms
- Sep 5, 2019
Join Us For Fun and Food
As 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 Hamm
- Sep 2, 2019
How I Became a Year-Round Bicyclist
I 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 Farms
- Aug 26, 2019
Getting Ready for a New, Necessary and Better Way of Living
A 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 Farms
- Aug 20, 2019
Watch: Professor Jem Bendell Says Our Mother Earth Says #MeToo
Professor Jem Bendell, author of the acclaimed paper on Deep Adaptation, spoke at an Extinction Rebellion protest on April 15, 2019....
Our Urban Farms
- Aug 20, 2019
Tour de Sustainability and Excitement from Our Website First Days
Our new website is literally only a few days old and we are very excited about everything that is happening. Hundreds of unique visitors...
Our Urban Farms
- Aug 18, 2019
Report: Urban Farms 'Critical' to Combat Hunger and Adapt to Climate Crisis
A 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 Farms
- Aug 17, 2019
We Can Be the Change We Want to See
These stories all outline multiple urgent crises facing our planet, including the fact that more than a million species are currently at ris