Since 2008, more than half of the global popuation lives in urban areas. In 2030, 60% of the population will live in cities, which means 2 billion new urban citizens. We are building the equivalent of a city the size of Vancouver every week and most of this growth takes place in developing crounties, creating [...]
Ah, Spring. The flowers are in bloom, love is in the air, and Earth Day is just around the corner. Celebrate this Earth Day by hosting a screening of Dirt! The Movie in your community – at your local library, arboretum, community center or church. Now through April 22, we are offering FREE Shipping of [...]
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their [...]
edible landscape, gardening, TED, urban gardening
From the interwebs: A Free, Pick-Your-Own Orchard Takes Root in Los Angeles. Congratulations to Fallen Fruit! http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/12/10/a-public-orchard-takes-root-in-la?cmpid=foodinc-fb http://ridley-thomas.lacounty.gov/index.php/urban-orchard-in-del-aire/ https://www.facebook.com/FallenFruit Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest http://www.alternet.org/environment/vandana-shiva-everything-i-need-know-i-learned-forest?akid=9786.1076899.RGNxVV&rd=1&src=newsletter758412&t=21 20 uses for leftover fruit and vegetable peels http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/stories/20-uses-for-leftover-fruit-and-vegetable-peels
art, fruit, urban farming, vandana shiva
Urban GreenWorks’ James Jiler – Mulch is Gold Wednesday, August 22: a Miami City dump truck the size of a small warehouse rumbles down the driveway to the prison gates. I wait outside, more than excited – for the delivery of its load was almost one-year in the making, an answer to the hard-fought battle [...]
Making dirt in prison Part of my week finds me in a South Florida prison building gardens. I work with ten men – all elderly and most serving life sentences, or sentences long enough that likely they will die there. The prison administration tolerates their work building a food garden, and apart from permission and [...]
dirt, florida, garden, james jiler, planting, prison garden
Welcome to the first post in our series of featured artists who make art out of, or about, our favorite topic: Dirt! Common Ground 191 is a large scale art project by artist Gary Simpson. His vision involves creating a large series of 196 abstract panels created with a mixture of soil collected from 192 [...]
art, dirt, soil(c) 2012 Dirt! - Website by Joe Fulginiti for f power design
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