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 […]
Photo by Rick Gush My pumkins, which are planted on a trellis, need extra support as they grow, so I built this pumpkin support system. Gardening on a cliff presents some amusing problems. I really like growing squash vines, but there’s no way I have enough horizontal space for these sprawlers. So what I do […]
Courtesy www.grownindetroitovie.com/ Mascha Poppenk The Catherine Ferguson Academy for teenage mothers integrates an urban farm into its curriculum. Six students travelled to South Africa to teach other young entrepreneurs about urban farming and how to build a greenhouse. “Sowing seeds of success,” Asenath Andrews proudly says, “is our slogan.” Andrews is the residing principal of […]
Courtesy Doug Buerlein Some of the produce grown in the Village Garden, Whole Foods Market’s first community garden, will be used in the grocery store’s salad bar and cooking classes. A store in the Richmond, Va., metro area is giving the term “farm to market” a refreshing new meaning by becoming the first Whole Foods […]
Photo courtesy the Orange County Fair Hungry piglets hurl themselves on their way to the trough during a race at the Orange County Fair. Urban farming has its limits. It’s rare an urban farmer has enough room for to all the different kinds of critters you would typically see on a farm. So what can […]
I’m a big lumbering lummox sort of guy, and maybe that’s part of why I’m fascinated with all the little creatures on the planet.
Courtesy USDA/ Michael Smith The USDA is working to eradicate Asian longhorned beetles that are infesting and killing hardwood trees in the Northeast and the Midwest. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service needs help detecting and preventing the spread of the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), a serious pest of hardwood trees. Federal, […]
Photo by Judith Hausman My beans growing in Bob and Karen’s backyard. Around here, book club is the inner circle, the first network to consult for advice on nearly anything: electricians, school board candidates, pie crust. Ours (The Salem Witches) is fluid but committed; there’s always a quorum of very smart women with a list […]
Courtesy Christie Mole During Transition Milwaukee’s Power Down Week in June 2010, members of the Wisconsin transition initiative built a cob oven and baked pizza and muffins. (The group reports that their baked goods were delicious.) The pace of change is accelerating, and much of it is neither encouraging nor hopeful—as is seen most recently […]
