Environmental Survival

Growing Biointensive

Kemper Barkhurst — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:46:44 +0000

A vegetable growing process that’s documented through a couple of gardening books. Read the primer ( Grow Biointensive )

Automotive-free solar paradise

Kemper Barkhurst — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:19:01 +0000

Andrew Revkin of the NY Times writes about the plans to build another attraction in the United Arab Emirates. This time it’s targeting the ever-trendy environmental heat wave. ( Car-Free, Solar City in Gulf Could Set a New Standard for Green Design )

New Bike Paths for Mexico City

Kemper Barkhurst — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:38:19 +0000

Eliza Barclay writes about the plans to add more bike paths in Mexico City. Another major city that is choking on it’s own automotive growth. (Mexico City to Build 186 Miles of Bike Paths by 2012)

Rising Costs Felt at the World’s Dinner Tables

Kemper Barkhurst — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:57:37 +0000

A graph of food prices, oil consumption, and oil prices. (Rising Costs Felt at the World’s Dinner Tables)

Food or Fuel?

Kemper Barkhurst — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:49:29 +0000

Keith Bradsher at the New York Times covers the 37% increase of food costs in 2007 and the many problems that are resulting throughout the Word because of the soaring fuel prices. This news is very unsettling and a wonderful response to the last article I mentioned. (A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories)

“Extreme Eating” goes anti-local

Kemper Barkhurst — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:44:56 +0000

Joel Stein of Time Magazine provides a funny opposition to the farm-to-table movement (Extreme Eating).

Urban Farming in a Tower?

Kemper Barkhurst — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:32:53 +0000

Environmental News Network informs of the plans to build a 30-story vertical farm in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas to Build World’s First 30 Story Vertical Farm). Learn more about the project (The Vertical Farm Project).

Capturing solar energy from the street

Kemper Barkhurst — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:08:17 +0000

Autoblog Green explains how a Dutch company is capturing solar energy with asphalt. (In future, the road heats you - solar energy stored in asphalt)

Preview of Urban Harvesting Video

Kemper Barkhurst — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:47:09 +0000

This is a short video that was created to briefly describe what the whole idea of Urban Harvesting is about. You can read more about it in the previous post listed below.

Urban Harvesting - Collect And Distribute Local Foods

Kemper Barkhurst — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:40:25 +0000

The idea is simple and based upon the problem that most of the fruit that makes it into our grocery stores is transported great distances (1,000+ miles on average). All this energy, while a large percentage of fruit in people’s backyard simply goes to waste because most homeowners lack the time and interest to properly share or store this food.

Our mission is to directly connect this otherwise wasted fruit with the local markets, processing facilities, and food banks. We also plan to share all our experiences with this service by openly extending this information with the rest of the World. We hope others will adopt our strategy and start similar services in their own community.

If you are interested in more information, please visit Terra Harvest and you will be able to sign up to receive more information via email newsletter. We also want to hear what you think about this and if you have any suggestions to how to connect with others that might be interested in getting started. Please pass along so more like-minded individuals can learn about this project. Your welcome to use any photos from my Virb account for blog posts.

Thanks!