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June 5, 2009
Posted by Brandi Colander in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- climatechange, energy, greenhousegasemissions, greenmovement, NIMBY, urbanagriculture, yale
Far too often, we hear cries of NIMBY: NOT IN MY BACKYARD! Well, with the recent birth of IOBY: environmental action is fostered and encouraged to occur precisely IN OUR BACKYARDS! ioby.org (pronounced eye-OH-be) enables you to support neighborhood level...continued→
June 2, 2009
Posted by Brandi Colander in Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- agriculture, energyefficiency, food, freshfood, GHG, gothamgreens, greencollareconomy, greenhousegasemissions, hydroponic, rooftop, sustainableagriculture, urbanagriculture, urbangarden, urbanmarketplace
Often overlooked, the agricultural sector is particularly sensitive to fluctuating energy costs and demands. Take California for example, it takes 4% of the state's electricity in order to produce, process, and store approximately 200 food and fiber crops. There is...continued→
