Your Personal Solar System

Tomorrow (Friday) I'll be giving my talk for the WE DONT KNOW WHAT WE DONT KNOW exhibition. Please stop by for a discussion on small-scale solar and veggie burgers cooked by car battery.

Adeetje Bouma will teach how to make
SUNNY SIDE UP
on February 29 1PM-2PM
Main Building Basement Gallery


Or you can try Instructables for some zany solar array ideas:

Enemy Kitchen

"Enemy Kitchen is an ongoing project begun by Michael Rakowitz in 2004. Collaborating with his Iraqi-Jewish mother, he compiles Baghdadi recipes and teaches them to different public audiences."
Read review in San Francisco Chronicle

Iraqi food and Turkish coffee will be made in-house (using artist's emailed instructions) and served to attendees. Tuesday, Feb 26th 10pm in Main Building's basement gallery.

Just as organic food swept into grocery stores in the 1990s, Godsall is planning to line the lumber aisles of Home Depot and Lowe’s with underwater-harvested timber. He’s also talking to Ikea about an exclusive deal to provide wood for tables and chairs. And the Triton logo is becoming an “Intel Inside”-type seal that retailers can slap on products to attract green-minded buyers.

Click here for article...

Parkingday.org

Conceived by REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.

Lunchtime Lecture Series

This Monday at 12, Paul Foer will be this weeks guest at the lecture series. Paul will talk about city planning,public transportation and the question of "what exactly is sustainability anyway?"

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Sustainability Film Series

This Tuesday is the last night of the Sustainability Film Series. We'll screen Everything's Cool. It is a documentary that is specifically focused on the public and political perceptions of climate change. The director, Judith Helfand will be there to take questions after the film.

Heres a link to the films site for more information.

http://everythingscool.org/article.php?list=type&type=10

First flight with bio fuels...

it's just a gimmick...

texas, of all places.

here is an article about wind turbines taking over texas.

sometimes, I think we're making progress...

Stop Junk Mail. Save Trees.

Put a stop to junk mail...I thought this was an interesting green business idea...

http://greendimes.com

eNutrition Facts

An idea for electronics to carry nutrition fact like labels...

Greener Gadgets Design Competition

Eating Green

I found this group to be really interesting...

Started in 1999 by the artist/chef Jim Denevan, Outstanding in the Field is an organization whose chief goal is to reconnect eaters with producers, “between the soil and the sky,” at a single dining table. Communal feasts for an era in which fast food reigns supreme, the series holds locality as one of the chief ingredients to a successful meal. Diners who are able to score a place at the routinely sold-out meals can count amongst their company local farmers, artisans, and vintners—the repast generally prepared by a renowned regional chef.

http://www.outstandinginthefield.com

Harvesting from the grounds around you

This is an article related to my art talk.

Its about foraging and the the writer's experience growing up in Baltimore.

http://www.citypaper.com/eat/story.asp?id=14760

Oh also, if you are interested in coming on a gathering walk for ginkgo nuts this weekend, please send me a note. It will be Sunday from 3:30 to 4:30.

something nice, for a change.

This is to continue with the theme that is, apparently, cows. An article about small dairy farms that are, essentially, starting to make it work! Reading this makes me hungry for some yogurt.

[five minutes later]: OK -- I just looked up Maryland Creameries, and I found this one: South Mountain Creamery. It's based in Middletown, MD, and I think that it might deliver to Bmore! I just placed an order to see if it will work. They are not certified organic but their cows are all pasture (grass) fed and they encourage people to visit the farm: always a good sign. They also don't use hormones or pesticides -- organic enough, in my book. My delivery status hasn't been confirmed yet, but once it is, I'll let you all know. Don't fall off the edge of your seats or anything.

If it works, would anyone be interested in sharing a delivery spot (and the $3.50 delivery fee)? Also: possible field trip? Yeah? They milk the cows from 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. ...!

One More reason to not eat meat...

This is from yahoo, its on the main yahoo page when you check in to "my yahoo"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080218/ap_on_bi_ge/slaughterhouse_abuse

big scare and recall on some beef from a giant feed-lot and slaughterhouse operation in california. not looking good.

KB

Sustainability Lecture Series - Tilt Studio

This Monday the 18th is the first of the Sustainability Lecture Series, 12pm Art Tech, next door to the Mt Royal Tavern.

Tilt Studio is a Baltimore green design firm made up of former MICA GD graduate students. They are currently working on a large city wide banner event called the Urban Forest Project. This event is tied to TreeBaltimore which is a city reforestation campaign.

  Here is a link to their website

http://www.tiltstudio.biz/innovation/retail.php

Easy Peasy

Well, this was easy to get hooked up on, and here's a link to a Wall Street Journal article about cities attempting to add carbon-neutral and sustainable concepts to their energy portfolios... read on

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120248655589254033.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today

this

looks good, thanks Jamie,

lets see if this site is easier to post on, I will try a few things tomorrow,

one concern is that on

on my computer the title at the top of the page is cut off

Hugh

novelty.

hey guys.

so, I made this new blog, as our old one kind of became defunct. I hope everyone enjoys it.

in true fashion, I'm posting a link to "dotearth," a nytimes blog all about climate change and sustainability. there's a ton of information -- I'm a sucker for the pictures.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com