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 [...]
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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 [...]
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A prison garden provides inmate work, produces better food for the institution, teaches work skills, and provides an achievement opportunity for inmates. In Dirt! The Movie we introduced you to the Rikers Island prison garden program, The Greenhouse Project. Since then, we have received several emails from viewers asking us for more information about prison [...]
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As more and more cities and counties are banning single-use plastic grocery bags, we here at Dirt! applaud the elimination of one more source of plastic pollution in our waterways, oceans and of course our landfills. Last week Los Angeles became the largest city in the U.S. to approve a ban on plastic grocery bags.
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Soil is ground zero in African farming debate | Marketplace.org. Food for 9 Billion by Jori Lewis Marketplace for Monday, June 4, 2012 Transcript Kai Ryssdal: We’ve been working on a big population and food project for the past half year or so geared around this question: With the United Nations saying there are gonna [...]
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