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My high school’s Green Campus Initiative recently added an impressive piece of hardware. The Lawrenceville School’s sustainability program includes a LEED certified building, biodiesel production facilities and vehicles, and an organic vegetable garden that helps to feed the campus. In January, the school purchased something called an in-vessel digester, a food waste mixer that turns food waste into mulch. The alumni newsletter recently...

There have been a number of books written recently on the subject of food: The Herbivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle among them.  I have read none of these books.  I have, however, been doing some thinking of my own on the matter and I’ve come to a few realizations, some of them uncomfortably reflective of our societies’ views on the subject. 

First, I realize I take food completely for...

We need a plan for reducing carbon emissions that actually works.

I know it isn’t even summer yet, but December can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned. That’s when the next UN Climate Change Conference 2009 will be held in Copenhagen. This will be the first of these conferences since the arrival of President Obama on the scene. I don’t think it is controversial to say that he’s shown a greater willingness than his predecessor to have...

Earlier this month, Google announced that they would no longer be mowing the grass/brush on sections of their Mountain View, California campus by conventional methods.  Instead, they will be opting for something(s) that have seen very little face time on the California Tech Circuit up to this point…goats.

That’s right, Google is employing 200 goats from herder/land management company/livestock temp agency California Grazing to “mow” the...

As spring transitions to summer it’s finally farmers market season once again.  The Wooster Square Farmers Market in New Haven, Connecticut, recently opened its 2009 season and the grassroots outreach team at Community Energy is looking forward to another successful season teaming up with our partners City Seed to help spread the word about the benefits of clean energy.

City Seed is a non-profit organization that hosts several farmers...