Courtesy Butte College By May 2011, Northern California’s Butte College will produce enough solar energy to meet its energy needs, making it the first grid-positive college in the U.S. Butte College, a community college located in Northern California and resting on a 928-acre wildlife refuge, has been recognized over the last few years as a […]
When the heat and humidity are too high for anything but "have to" jobs around the farm, it's a great time to straighten up the shop.
Courtesy Liz Palika Zenyatta stops to hear the crowd roar. Urban farmers may have less land to work with than rural farmers and may spend their days listening to car horns honking instead of birds singing in the trees, but we have one advantage over our country brethren: We have access to a lot of […]
Photo by Rick Gush As a teenager, in a struggle to make ends meet, I used materials like these to clean sidewalks in exchange for donations. I used the money I earned to buy work clothes for a farm job. When I was 19 years old, I found myself in a strange city with absolutely […]
I never thought I’d be more disappointed when my computer died than when a plant died, but it has happened.
Courtesy Dan Walden This illustration shows a road if Scott Brusaw’s clean-energy project, Solar Roadways, comes to fruition. Brusaw entered the project in the GE Ecomagination Challenge. About seven months ago, University of Wisconsin graduate students Steve Faulkner and Michael Major started GeoHuddle, a company that develops ground-source heat pumps, as part of a clean-technology […]
Courtesy Audrey Pavia Milagro, my Spanish Mustang, was a real comedian during the Trail Trials. Horses that live in urban environments have a very different lifestyle from those in rural areas. Urban equines have to deal with all kinds of crazy stuff that country horses will never see. I’m guessing this is the reasoning behind some of […]
