Archive for ‘Clean Tech’
Food Not Lawns: No Lawn Left Behind
December 31st, 2007
Ever since we started living in a place were every square inch is growing something useful (to people and other creatures), our eyes are opened to the possibility of transforming lawns and other unused green space to grow food. Why water a lawn full of grass when you could water and grow salad greens, root veggies, herbs, squash, tomatoes, peppers, …
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Alemany Farm: San Francisco Urban Farming
December 31st, 2007
Alemany Farm is a 4 acre, fully functioning urban farm nestled between a major highway intersection, a newly gentrified neighborhood on a hill and a housing project- the perfect place to grow some food! We got a tour (and some amazing fruit) from Antonio Roman-Alcalá, Volunteer Coordinator and soon to be videoblogger/documentarian extraordinaire. The work being done …
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EVS 23: The Fuel Cell Store
December 28th, 2007
One of the interesting folks I met at EVS 23, the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Anaheim, Calif., was Kathleen Larson, former math teacher and owner of the Fuel Cell Store. Concerned about reducing their carbon footprint, she and her husband started the company seven years ago, which sells among other things, hydrogen fuel cell model cars for …
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Raising Chics from Scratch
December 26th, 2007
You might remember from our Stone Soup video that our little eco-village has started to cull our chicken flock to make room for new birds. For the last 2 months we’ve been learning what it takes to be mother hens and raise two dozen newly hatched chics. Jay and I grew up in urban areas where there were no …
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Producing the Next Generation of Transportation Fuels from Clean Tech - Part 1
December 19th, 2007
Jonathan S Wolfson, President and CEO of Solazyme Inc. talks with John Ince about how biotech companies in the biodiesel space can reduce their carbon footprint by focusing on process technology to make savings and reduce the amount of energy that goes into biofuels production. He also talks about the current climate in Washington and how legislators should be more …
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Producing the Next Generation of Transportation Fuels from Clean Tech - Part 2
December 19th, 2007
Jonathan S Wolfson, President and CEO of Solazyme Inc. talks with John Ince about how biotech companies in the biodiesel space can reduce their carbon footprint by focusing on process technology to make savings and reduce the amount of energy that goes into biofuels production. He also talks about the current climate in Washington and how legislators should be more …
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GRUB: Bryant Terry’s Organic Soul Party
December 18th, 2007
Bryant Terry, co-author of the book GRUB: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, and Jason Harvey, founder of Oakland Food Connection, teamed up recently to have a totally organic soul food brunch. Hanging out with food justice foodies as of late, we’ve been hearing a similar idea that to encourage folks to think about where their food …
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