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From Farm to Table: New York City's Local Food Movement

Join Dan Barber, Executive Chef/Co-owner of Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Blue Hill; Michael Hurwitz, Director of Greenmarket; and Ian Marvy, Director and co-founder with Michael Hurwitz of Added...

04.07.09
Modern Planters: Urban Gardens

Need help planning out your window boxes, planters or roof top gardens? Toni Ann Flanigan from Philadelphia Gardens, Inc will be at the Philadelphia DWR Studio to do a presentation on container...

04.06.09
Scaling Up: From Green Buildings to Green Cities in the US and China

This one-day conference is the first to bring together leading green design specialists from the fields of research, technology, architecture, business, and policy from the U.S. and China to build...

04.03.09
Asia Society Northern California Sixth Annual Dinner

Focus: Leading the Way Toward a Sustainable Future The theme of this year’s Annual Dinner is sustainability—both locally and in Asia. As issues of energy production, global warming, and...

04.03.09
Design for a Living World

Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of...

04.03.09
Horticulturist Seth Hogan at Flora Grubb Gardens

Stop by Flora Grubb Gardens to hear Seth Hogan of Sauvie Island, Oregon–based nursery Cistus speak about his recent projects, including a yucca-studded green roof in Portland's Pearl District...

04.03.09
Patagonia

Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing – as well as for skiing,...

02.03.09
USDoE Green Power

The Green Power Network (GPN) provides news and information on green power markets and related activities. The site provides up-to-date information on green power providers, product offerings,...

01.29.09
Jetson Green

A broad look at green building, regularly featuring new sustainable prefab systems.

01.28.09
Metropolitan Policy Program

Created in 1996, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program provides decision makers with cutting-edge research and policy ideas for improving the health and prosperity of cities...

01.27.09
Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop

In this hands-on workshop from Slow Food Chicago, you will graft and take home a low-maintenance fruit tree that can produce fruit organically without harmful spraying. There will also be fruit...

03.19.09
Sun-Mar

In 1971, Hardy Sundberg developed the world's first self-contained composting toilet. For the first time a self-contained toilet could be put in a bathroom ...

01.15.09
Design in the Age of Climate Consequences

The discussion will be led by author David W. Orr, ithe Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics in the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is best...

03.01.09
Fire as Grassland Management

The Aldo Leopold Foundation will lead a two-day workshop at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Estate about fire ecology, fire behavior principles, and how to begin preparing for using fire in managing...

03.01.09
Weaning New York from Fossil Fuels

Ashok Gupta, Air & Energy Program Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, will moderate a discussion on practical near-term opportunities and barriers associated with the deployment...

03.01.09
Eco Dough

Foster creative play with this set of prismatic and environmentally friendly modeling dough.

$23.99
Food Map Container

The Food Map Container may look like a bathtub but is the ideal planter. Its lightweight recycled-plastic basin features a contoured drainage system built into the bottom and it sits on a metal...

$185.00
Kitchen Compost Bin
Plant Pod

$96.00
House Tours

An Airstream and Playroom by the Beach

A couple in Israel seizes the rare chance to rehab a 1969 Airstream to experiment with indoor-outdoor, space-efficient living.

written by: Eviana Hartman

04.12.13