TreeHugger:
Credit: oquendo via Flickr.Nothing against New Jersey, but it's not the first place that comes to mind when you think of clean air in the United States. Maybe that's just not fair to the Garden State. In a 2009 "Best Places to Live" list of small towns from Money magazine, Jersey has nine cities in the Top Ten when it comes (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Health:
Students at Hollin Meadows Elementary School were harvesting lettuce from the school's garden Wednesday morning when they received a visit from Gardener-in-Chief Michelle Obama.
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TreeHugger:
One of the most important components of a tightly sealed house or a super-sealed Passive House is a fresh air system. Often they are heat recovery ventilators, and others have used earth tubes running under the home or in the garden. Japan's Geo Power Systems has turned it into a clever system. They call it a solar geotherm (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Metro:
First Lady Michelle Obama visited Hollin Meadows Elementary School in Alexandria on Wednesday to tour the school's outdoor classrooms and promote the importance of nutrition and physical education to learning.
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Washington Post:
Michelle Obama, first gardener, plans to visit Hollin Meadows Elementary School this morning in Alexandria to see the school's outdoor classrooms.
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mashable:
Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle.My iPhone is my baby, my constant companion, and I think it’s sa (Read More)
Mashable!:
Welcome, music fans! Today marks another installment of Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. We’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter with 10 tracks, albums, or playlists from around the web. Last week we ran a special hip-hop edition, and this week celebrates creative covers, remixes, and mashups.W (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Aquaponics has been a hot topic on TreeHugger of late. Whether you find it the coolest thing to hit urban gardening, or cruelty to fish, aquaponics are gaining popularity. Kijiji Grows demonstrated their aquaponics system at San Francisco Green Festival this weekend, and it looks like a great addition to the market of aquap (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Green Scene by Joel Lerner:
Gardening tasks don't stop with the end of the growing season. You can still plant trees, do landscape design work, inspect insect damage, and evaluate what performed well in the garden this year and what needs more attention. Here are answers to some of the questions that have been sent in recently.
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TreeHugger:
Furniture made from reclaimed wood, whether it be from the wild or from a collapsing warehouse, expresses the human and natural history of the region it was plucked from. Last week I wrote about Urban Woods, an LA-based furniture shop whose materials reflect the unique environs of California. This week, Garden & Gun (one of (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Bonnie previously showed Toronto's Pearson Airport's Eco-Design Show in the international section of Pearson Airport. Over in the US terminal, there was an entire display that could have been ripped out of the pages of TreeHugger. Start with the model of the Canuhome, then a display of Moss Sund's interior vertical garden, (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photo via InhabitatCan you figure out which former world's tallest building lost its title to the Burj Dubai, but has now found a way to stay afloat in the battle of the superlatives by revamping itself as the world's tallest green building? The world's tallest treehouse is 10 floors and has spiral staircases, a sanctuary, (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photos: Window FarmsWith city space at a premium and urban sprawl devouring previously prime agriculture land, vertical farming has been touted as one possible solution to the metropolitan masses. We've covered many of the grand schemes, most of which are likely to remain no more than stylish computer renderings of an archi (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Fall garden filled with black seed simpson. Credit: Tim Bruni From organic gardening with composted horse manure to raised bed gardens--filled with Swiss chard, spinach, romaine lettuce, radicchio, arugula, black seeded simpson and broccolini--readers send in their fall garden photos. Click through for beautiful fall woodl (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
As you may have guessed based on the Google home-page images alone, it's a big week for "Sesame Street" (MPT at 9:30 a.m.). The show celebrates its 40th season premiere Tuesday, with a special guest appearance by Michelle Obama, who teaches the benefits of planting a garden and healthy eating.
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