Posted by nancyastrid in Community, Compost, Culture, Eco Interior Design, Food, Green Living, holidays, Local, Plastic, Seasonal, Waste on 12 7th, 2009 | No Comments
How to Nurture Your Fall Landscape
With a change in season, the days are slowly getting shorter and the leaves are starting to turn. This is an ideal time of the year to prepare your landscape and garden for the approaching chilly weather and perhaps frost. There are many things you can do to prepare your landscape for the coming months...
Posted by nancyastrid in Biodiversity, Community, CSA, Culture, Facts, Farmer's Markets, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Natural Reources, Seasonal on 02 8th, 2009 | No Comments
The Future of Food – Vertical Farming
With 85% of the human population living in urban settings by 2050 – there is not doubt that a new way of raising our food, must be underway. Lucky for us, a genius by the name of Dickson Despommier, has already created the solution for us – vertical farming. Despommier is a professor...
Posted by nancyastrid in Community, Culture, Energy, Facts, Farmer's Markets, Food, Gardens, Green Building, Green Living, Green Washing, Homesteading, Landfill, Life Cycle, Local, Natural Reources, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Plastic, Seasonal, Social Responsibility, Sustainable, Thoughts, Toxins, Victory Gardens, Waste, Water/Oceans on 01 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Free Green Living Workshops in Santa Monica
FREE GREEN WORKSHOPS Workshops will be held: SM Public Library (Ocean Park Branch) 2601 Main Street @ Ocean Park Santa Monica, CA 90405 January 24, 2009 @ 2:00 PM Part 1 Green Living This workshop on Green Living, will help lay the foundation to create your green abode – whether you own or not....
Posted by nancyastrid in Alternative Transportation, Biodiversity, Community, Cradle to Cradle, CSA, Culture, Energy, Farmer's Markets, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Green Building, Green Living, Green Washing, Homesteading, Human Scale, Landfill, LEED, Life Cycle, Local, Natural Reources, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Plastic, Regenerative, Seasonal, Sustainable, Thoughts, Toxins, Victory Gardens, Waste, Water/Oceans on 01 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Calender of Events in The World Of Green – Winter 2009
January 15 - Green Building Workshop (Brooklyn, NY) Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Location: LC 400, Dibner Library Building 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY A workshop that brings industry researchers and developers of green buildings technologies, entrepreneurs, investors, representatives from...
Posted by nancyastrid in CSA, Culture, Facts, Food, Food Revolution, Green Living, Homesteading, Local, Organic, Seasonal, Sustainable, Victory Gardens on 08 20th, 2008 | No Comments
You are What you Eat
Today, there is a food revolution happening and it is not based on food shortages or food security, but rather on the exhilarating connection to the very thing that binds cultures, people and generations. Despite the fact that, 1 in 3 Americans is obese, and most food found in our super markets, that...
Posted by nancyastrid in Alternative Transportation, Biodiversity, Community, Cradle to Cradle, Energy, Farmer's Markets, Food, Green Living, Green Washing, Human Scale, Landfill, LEED, Life Cycle, Local, Organic, Seasonal, Thoughts, Waste, Water/Oceans on 08 15th, 2008 | No Comments
Nancy Astrid Lindo Interviewed By: Angela Orrechio of Good Life
What is green building and what is your role in it? Who are your customers? Green Building is a movement that has stemmed out of the need for man to return to our state of balance with the natural world. We began civilizations, building green, using natural and local materials. It has been through time...
Posted by nancyastrid in Community, Culture, Facts, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Green Living, Homesteading, Local, Organic, Seasonal, Sustainable, Victory Gardens on 08 5th, 2008 | No Comments
Public Fruit Jam – Echo Park
Just this past weekend I attended a Public Fruit Jam in Echo Park at the Machine Project, Hosted by the art collective Fallen Fruit. The art gallery was opened to the public and encouraged all to bring in their local fruit to make jars of fresh jam. I brought in green sour apples from my backyard...
Posted by nancyastrid in Alternative Transportation, Biodiversity, Community, Culture, Energy, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Green Building, Green Living, Homesteading, Human Scale, Landfill, Local, Natural Reources, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Regenerative, Seasonal, Social Responsibility, Sustainable, Waste on 07 14th, 2008 | No Comments
Viva Permaculture!
So what is Permaculture? Permaculture, stems from the two words: Permanent Culture I like to define it, is the design of human settlements in accordance to the laws of nature. So what does that mean? It uses the wisdom of learning from the self perfecting system of nature to build and provide in ways,...
Posted by nancyastrid in CSA, Facts, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Green Living, Homesteading, Local, Organic, Seasonal, Victory Gardens on 07 1st, 2008 | No Comments
Food For Thought
This is such an exhilarating time this is for the history of food! Despite the fact that, 1 in 3 Americans is obese, and most food found in our super markets, that is not organic is genetically modified – there is a food revolution happening in the mist of all of this. As we know, we began...-
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