Podcast: The Ecological Gardener with Matt Rees-Warren

Continue ReadingPodcast: The Ecological Gardener with Matt Rees-Warren

Our guest this week is Matt Rees-Warren, author of The Ecological Gardener: How to Create Beauty & Biodiversity from the Soil Up. He chats with Christy from his home in England about how we can reduce plastic, conserve resources, and create ecosystems in our gardens.

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Joanne Poyourow. photo by Christopher Frangapane

Podcast: Joanne Poyourow the Environmental Change-Maker

Continue ReadingPodcast: Joanne Poyourow the Environmental Change-Maker

Joanne Poyourow is a change-maker. She started two community gardens, created a seed company, founded a grassroots environmental activism group, and wrote a book that started it all. In today's podcast, Joanne shares her journey from feeling helpless about Climate Change, to fostering a positive impact on her local community and beyond. She has funneled her gardening knowledge into several publications that raise awareness and reduce one's carbon footprint at the same time. Environmental Change-Makers is headquartered at Holy Nativity…

A Shift in Perspective: Pachamama Alliance

Continue ReadingA Shift in Perspective: Pachamama Alliance

Every day, I get upset about Climate Change. Some days I'm angry that "no one is paying attention". Sometimes it's despair that we're too late to save the planet. You see, I do this gardening thing to change the world one garden at a time, but it's not enough. So I feel helpless. This weekend, I did something about it. I attended the Pachamama Alliance symposium called Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream. Pachamama has many meanings, but for brevity's…

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Climate Mobilization vs. The GOP Tax Plan

Continue ReadingClimate Mobilization vs. The GOP Tax Plan

With the passing of the recent GOP tax plan, which includes approval to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), my head reels once again at how the government continually chooses profit over people and planet. In a time when China is moving ahead by leaps and bounds in the transition to alternative energy, we are still focused on destroying the last pristine stretches of nature for non-renewable resource extraction. What kind of future, and what kind of planet,…

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Too Hot to Plant

Continue ReadingToo Hot to Plant

Twenty five years ago, when I started gardening in Southern California, we planted cool weather crops in September. As Climate Change increased, September became too hot to plant. Now we plant brassicas, lettuces, alliums (onions, garlic, shallots, etc.) and root veggies in October. No...wait. Now October is too hot to plant. It's October 25th and it's going to be 95 degrees on the westside. This post is for those experiencing this weather in lower latitudes. Last year we didn't plant…

Climate Change Round Up (AKA Things I Care About)

Continue ReadingClimate Change Round Up (AKA Things I Care About)

#Climate Change was trending on Twitter yesterday. As gardenerds, we don't need Twitter to point out the changes in seasonal behavior. We can spot when things are off. Things are definitely off. Mudslides, more intense icy winters, more frequent flooding, bigger storms--these are all the signs that our planet is out of balance. Signs now point to the notion that we're beyond help, the window has closed, it's too late and there's nothing we can do. The talk now is…

Do The Math for Climate Change

Continue ReadingDo The Math for Climate Change

Earlier this week I attended Do The Math at UCLA with Bill McKibben and 350.org. For those who aren't familiar with Bill McKibben, he is the author of 14 books including Eaarth and The End of Nature. He is an educated voice in the field of climate change and he has a plan to turn things around. As organic gardeners, we're already doing a lot to cut down on carbon emissions. We compost (which captures carbon), we grow our own…

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