Re:Vision Urban Communities

“What if living in a city was a safe, healthy, beautiful experience that enriched both the community and the environment?” Re:Vision asks this question as they challenge people to think of the urban experience they truly want. Their mission is based on the understanding that nature has provided us everything we need to exist in a [Read More]

Foraging With The Wildman

People everywhere are realizing the benefits of eating seasonal food, supporting their local farmers. However, not only do our farmers provide for us, but Mother Nature also grows many nutrient-rich plants right outside our doorsteps, for free! Naturalist “Wildman” Steve Brill, has been giving tours about wild edibles, throughout the northeastern U.S., for a couple decades. [Read More]

Toxic Veganism: Boycott Soy

I used to work with an evangelical vegan. He was radically concerned about farm animals. But he couldn’t see past the end of a chicken run in terms of the implications of anything he said. His first line of argument I called “The Frances Moore Lappe”: we should plough up the pasture land in order to [Read More]

Green Architect Mercedes Corbell To Exhibit At West Coast Green Expo

Oakland, CA &#8211 September 15, 2007 &#8211 A successful Bay Area architect since 1989, Mercedes Corbell has found her professional niche and personal passion. She is a green architect focused on creating environmentally sound designs for residential and commercial spaces. Corbell is founder and principal of Mercedes Corbell Design + Architecture (MCD+A) located in Oakland, [Read More]

Urban Edibles – Right Around The Corner

Have you ever walked past a fig tree bursting with delicious ripe fruit and wondered hmmm, “just one, I bet that would be ok.” Urban Edibles took that feeling and ran with it, creating an online resource to reconnect Portlanders with the vast wild food sources at their fingertips. Portland, Oregon is known as one [Read More]

Biofuel: Growing Our Way Out Of The Petrochemical Pit

War, environmental crisis, economic disaster-all things evil seem to go in and come out of that gas tank. Nevertheless, as prices climb and reserves plummet, the vast majority of motored vehicles continue to run on the costly and divisive toxic goo, much to the delight and profit of the multinational corporations still serving it up. Of [Read More]

791 Dead From Defective Toasters- Rethinking The Shark

Yup. Last year 791 people died from accidents involving defective toasters. Not to mention the over 600 chair related deaths, and over 300 involving kites while only 4 people are known to have died from shark attacks. The Save Our Seas Foundation is a group working to change public perception of sharks. Their new PSA [Read More]

The Otesha Project

The Otesha Project is a grassroots group of hopeful young people who know that our current way of life is harming the planet and its inhabitants, but believe that hope and action will remedy this. Otesha means “reason to dream” in Swahili. This group insists that we must BE the positive change we want to see [Read More]

Growing Green Entrepreneurs

Business contributed greatly in getting the world into its current environmental, economic and social mess. But maybe values-driven entrepreneurs can help save the day. As Hunter Lovins, founder of Natural Capital Solutions, puts it, “We need to solve the world’s problems at the speed of business.” She already sees many business schools releasing a wave of [Read More]

EcOasys – Patrik Schumann

Patrik Schumann started EcOasys with two locations in Forestburgh, NY and New Mexico. One is a regenerating temperate forest including sustainable forestry and an edible forest, orchard, garden, and nursery demonstration. The other is a high desert institute for radical sustainability. Patrick kindly answered some questions for EcoSpace: What does the term ecoasys mean? ecOasys means “economic Oasis [Read More]