Every year American families sit down on the fourth Thursday of November and gorge themselves on anything and everything, including parades and football. It symbolizes the start of overeating, over-consuming, and general wastefulness for the next month. This is also called the holiday season with Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza and New Years all within a month. Really, [...]
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Your Guide to a Sustainable Thanksgiving
November 15th, 2011 
Megan Stilley 
Posted in Agriculture, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability 
Tags: Beer, Composting, Food, Megan Stilley, Organic, Waste 
No Comments »USDA Doles out 10 Grants for People’s Gardens
November 14th, 2011 Eric Wilson While small compared to subsidies for corn, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in grants “to support 155 People’s Gardens in neighborhoods” throughout the United States. 10 programs were awarded sums ranging from $5,000 to $150,000. For a complete accounting of the recipients and award denominations, see [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food Tags: California, Colorado, Denver, Food, Organic No Comments »Site Visit: Denver Public School’s First LEED Gold Campus
November 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson A week and a half ago, I attended the US Green Building Council Colorado Chapter’s Green School Summit. For my notes on the conference, click here. Held on the 35-acre Evie Garrett Dennis E-12, early childhood through 12th grade, though there is also a 2 year program on the campus (for nursing and other career [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Site Visits Tags: Colorado, Denver, Food, Green Schools, LEED, Net Zero Energy, Photovoltaic No Comments »Organic, Locavore or Seasonavore?
November 7th, 2011 Megan Stilley If you are trying to be conscious about your food choices, then there are many options to choose from. Do you choose to buy all of your food certified organic? Often these foods are miles from your house, generally produced in California or on the west coast. Do you choose to buy all your food [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Local Energy/Food Tags: California, Food, Megan Stilley, Organic No Comments »How to Feed Our Growing Population
November 2nd, 2011 Megan Stilley The world just reached (and flew by) the day when the 7 billion people inhabited the Earth. 7 billion people, that is hard to imagine or comprehend. The crazy thing is, people are not going to stop reproducing anytime soon; current speculation is we will reach 9 billion by 2050. 2050 is not very far [...]
Posted in Agriculture Tags: 7 Billion, Food, Megan Stilley, Michael Pollan, Population Growth No Comments »Bringing Back Freedom Gardens
October 22nd, 2011 Megan Stilley Sustainability has many definitions and approaches. But I feel in order for the global world to be sustainable, we individually need to take steps in being sustainable. Sustainability as a whole cannot thrive without personal change. One important change is growing your own garden. From freedomgardens.org, Presently we are faced with a future that will [...]
RecycOil Takes Old Fryer Oil and Makes Biodiesel
October 19th, 2011 Eric Wilson The idea of waste as fuel or nutrients for another purpose is a fundamental process in nature. Taking a substance that is considered waste and refining, recycling, or repurposing it is nature’s forte. Biomimicry and Cradle to Cradle design try to accomplish this goal albeit on a human scale. In the Rocky Mountain region, recycOil [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, Recylcing, Renewable Energy Tags: Biodiesel, Biomimicry, Colorado, Cradle to Cradle, Food, Waste No Comments »Genetically Modified Organisms in Food
October 17th, 2011 Megan Stilley October is GMO awareness month. GMOs are genetically modified foods and are now in most processed foods. According to Grist.org, “80 percent of packaged foods in this country contain genetically engineered ingredients.” The main crops that are GMO in the U.S. are soy, corn, cotton and canola. These are all common items we consume and [...]
