Chippenham & Beyond

On our way across the country to Virginia (our new home!), we stopped by Erik Nelson's place in Vermont to help tear down a barn. He's salvaging the wood to build a house on his land. Very exciting and a lot of hard work. Check out the video Jay made and the Wreck and Salvage post to see how they actually tore the structure down. We'll be more settled soon, so there will be more posts...I promise!

As some of you might remember, we traversed through T or C last year and taped a bunch with Mikey and Wendy of Green Acre Hotsprings. On our way over to Virginia, we have stopped by again to catch up and meet some new folks hacking out here in the desert. The photo above is [...]

We got an email from another No Knead Bread Fan, Lucy from New Bedford, MA. She showed us her ultra geeky method of getting her dough to rise in a drafty, New England house- put it on top of the hard drive! Me and the girls threw it together last night and then looked for someplace [...]

QuickTime Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode352", false); Can I get a ‘hell yeah!’? I was reading this article in the New York Times today about the resurgence of young farmers when I saw a link to The Greenhorns film. Talking to our friend Chris from Wanna Farm he asked there [...]

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode348", false); We had the privilege of attending a very hands on greywater workshop courtesy of The Greywater Guerillas, a local Bay Area crew of experts who are passionate about teaching folks to use their water (twice) wisely. Greywater [...]

Bruce F. left a comment on our Alemany Farm video last week and pointed us to a pretty amazing rooftop garden that he and his friends have built. After seeing the pictures, I think you’ll agree he’s being too modest. He says: A few of us who live in the city of Chicago are trying to [...]

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode343", false); Jamais Cascio is all about solutions. He considers himself an ethical futurist- one who designs and executes resilient and sustainable solutions that will not adversely effect present and future generations. On his blog, OpenTheFuture.com, Jamais writes about [...]

The Rainforest Action Network recently started a video segment called The Greenwash of the Week. This was their first post and we thought it was clever, funny and it informed us of Virgin Atlantic’s most recent greenwashing campaign. It seems that as ‘being green’ becomes the most obvious and urgent thing to do, corporations that [...]

Flash | QuickTime | Windows Media Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode333", false); Our friend, Erik Nelson, is famous for the Carp Caviar and Wreck and Salvage video projects. He has also recently bought land in Vermont where he starts a new life with his wife and kids. In a smart [...]

Our friend, Mikey Skylar, recently bought himself a diesel car which he converted to veggie oil. He found that he wanted a better way to know when to switch his diesel tank to a the vegetable oil tank. You do this because the veggie oil must be warmed up before it can efficiently run the [...]

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode340", false); Yep, it’s true. We’re moving back across the country to the mountains of Virginia. You might remember our video about recycled paper insulation that we were installing at Jay’s dad’s garage in Virginia…well, that’s the place! We’re [...]

I ran across this mention of this subterranean farm in an old bank vault under the busiest part of Tokyo . This blog explains how the farm works has has lots of great pictures showing the different grow rooms. Though walled in from sunlight, weather and geology, it’s unbelievably verdant. Tomatoes, lettuces, strawberries, and other fruits [...]

QuickTime | Flash | iPod | Ogg Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode332", false); As Jay and I prepare for a big move back to the East Coast (Rural Virginia/DC area to be exact-we’re officially bi-coastal now!), we’re dispersing most of our possessions back into the world via Craigslist, Freecycle and [...]

QuickTime | Flash Share by: vPIP Embed (copy & paste): close vPIP_setVisible("divEmbedCode329", false); Our friend Chris at WannaFarm is now making videos about the details of farming. With his wife and new kid, they are farming FOR REAL up in Portland. We can’t wait to see more web savvy folks grow food or farmers [...]

The folks at Frogdesign have launched a challenge: “For the next two weeks, I will be living without a garbage can. Where will my trash go? I am going to start needing to think about that before I buy something because, according to the rules I have set up for myself, I’m going to have to [...]