Kazuaki Okitsu teaching at his natural farm in Shikoku, Japan. Photo: Patrick M. Lydon
- What are ‘Garden Cities’ Without a Garden Culture?: “Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness, an international exploration of the ecological mindset and lifestyle of ‘natural farmers,’ most of whom are urban transplants, and some of whom still live or work in an urban context.”
- Welcome To The Slow Traffic Movement: “We are on the cusp of a new movement, one where going slower in an automobile becomes a lifestyle choice for many people. And that changes everything—the car experience, ownership, what it means to drive, the whole fume equation. Even the way we build cities can be reimagined.”
- Environment-Friendly Garden Movement Gaining Momentum Across US: “A new kind of gardening movement is making its way into the U.S., and it aims to encourage both large botanical and backyard plot gardeners to make their gardens more useful to the environment.”
- Is green infrastructure the new normal?: “More and more cities around the world are adopting green infrastructure, which uses trees, soils and other planting to manage urban water by mimicking the natural hydrological cycle.”
- Desalination Gaining Support as Long-Term Response to CA Drought: “While conservation is the key element of the state’s short-term drought response, those latter provisions of the governor’s plan have many Californians turning to desalination as a promising long-term solution to the state’s water needs.”
