Rob Greenfield is biking & dumpster diving his way across the United States to bring attention to all the good, edible food we throw away.
Category: Media
Disappointed with Gardening Ideas You Find Online? OpenFarm Wants to Change that
Want to find gardening ideas & plant growing tips tailored to your specific needs & local environment? That’s the plan behind OpenFarm.
How Planting Pumpkins Created an Urban Agriculture Advocate
Filmmaker Dan Sussman comes by his interest in urban agriculture honestly; find out how this Nebraskan found his passion for growing food
Growing Cities Headed for the Small Screen this Fall
Even the best projects, with the most talented team and the most well-intentioned backers, can effectively do only as much or as little as the amount of attention they’re able to attract, and sometimes, such as in this instance, that might mean finding…
The Earth Day Media Pitch Round-Up: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In the days leading up to Earth Day, my inbox fills up with green-themed PR pitches. Here’s a selection of the best and the worst…
Cargo Bikes – and the People Who Love Them – Come to Film
Yeah, they’re a little clunky looking, but cargo bikes have developed their own culture, and a documentary in the works, Less Car More Go, aims to share that culture with the world.
Time to Stop Living Dangerously and Move Beyond Coal
Years of Living Dangerously, Showtime’s new multi-part television event, premiering April 13, provides an opportunity to meet the people and see the places affected by climate change.
Climate Scientists Declare “We are the 97%!”
I have no doubt that climatology is a challenging field in and of itself, but climate scientists – particularly those focused on global warming – also have to deal with [ … ]
New Film on Keystone XL Pipeline Debunks Industry “PipeLIES”
On Tuesday, the Center for Media and Democracy released a new short film that sets out to debunk the many false claims — the films calls them “pipeLIES” — used by promoters of the Keystone XL pipeline. These industry…;
sustainablog’s Top Posts of 2013
Happy New Year, everyone! I’ve been relaxing heavily during the Christmas-New Year downtime, and just finally got around to what’s become an annual activity: figuring out our top posts for [ … ]
The Story of a Tomato Farmer: Lester R. Brown’s Breaking New Ground
Please note: Earth Policy Institute provided me with a free review copy of Breaking New Ground. I’ve been reading Lester Brown’s work for about ten years now, and in the [ … ]
The Online Game that Plants Real Seeds: Rainmaker Project
The Rainmaker Project has something quite different in mind from the standard notion of an online game about planting seeds and crops: a global community committed to the sustainable exchange and planting of seeds… in the real world. It ain’t Farmville; rather, its more like Facebook itself, made up of people committed to expanded landscape of real, live plants, and ideas for cultivating those plants more sustainably.
The Invisible People Who Take our Trash “Away”
Ever gotten stuck behind a garbage truck? Or heard one banging against a dumpster in the middle of the night? I’d guess that for most of us, these inconveniences/disturbances are among the few times we give any thought to the people who deal with our waste after we throw it “away.”