The Poetry of Lullabies
11 months ago
100% pollution free concert
We are very pleased to announce that this year, the Switchfoot Bro-Am has teamed up with San Diego-based Sustainable Waves to offer cutting-edge solar-powered sound and staging. Sustainable Waves utilizes the renewable energy sources of the sun to deliver 100% pollution free concerts. By using solar power rather than a diesel generator or grid power, the Bro-Am will avoid emitting approximately 1,000 lbs (half a metric ton) of CO2 into the atmosphere (the equivalent of not driving your car approximately 1,100 miles or the annual sequestration of 66 trees).
In this course students study organic pest, disease, and weed management; the characteristics of soils and the practices necessary to maintain soil health; the selection and use of tools; and the application of that knowledge to the production of vegetables, grains, dry legumes, herbs, fruits, and fiber. Students come away with the practical skills necessary to plan and manage a small scale homestead or market garden. The course combines lecture, reading, and discussion with guided practice in Sterling College’s two acres of organic gardens and greenhouses, as well as many field trips to farms of varied production scales.Richard Alsina Fulton Center for Sustainable Living
• Gardening for Fitness: Students cultivate the soil and raise their own produce and flower gardens from start to finish. This course also qualifies for Physical Education credits!Local Sustainable Agriculture at Stanford
• Low Input Sustainable Agriculture: This techniques class offers a survey of sustainable farming practices, including a hands-on component with composting, soil analysis, and cropping methods.
• Agroecology: Exploring the science of ecology through the lens of agriculture, agroecology students study the organisms interacting within the farm ecosystem with the goal of understanding sustainable food production.
• Permaculture Design: Permaculture teaches the principles of creating sustainable human settlements. This summer course has a strong hands-on component, wherein students construct a project to promote biodiversity and food production, as well as design their own permaculture homestead.
Field-based training in ecologically sound agriculture practices at the Stanford Community Farm; guest lectures from Bay Area farmers, agricultural educators, and food policy advocates; and a field trip to an educational farm. Weekly fieldwork led by an instructor with extensive organic farming experience. Topics include bed preparation, starting seedlings, composting, irrigation techniques, and harvesting methods. May be repeated for credit.Central Carolina Community College
Sustainable agriculture focuses on production that renews resources. The program is about more than environmental awareness. It is also about the farming community. Urban sprawl has inflated land prices and small farmers, unable to deal with rising taxes, diminished markets for traditional crops, and supply and equipment costs, are losing their farms.
The unique curriculum offered through the Sustainable Agriculture program has attracted students from throughout North Carolina, as well as many other states. The program provides both the small business and technical skills needed to develop and manage a profitable, environmentally sound and community-based small farm or agricultural business.
Students work with fellow classmates to plant, cultivate, and harvest a variety of produce. They learn to utilize a variety of tools and equipment, including tractors and tillers. Field trips, farm tours, and internships enhance the learning experience.Let's explore this more. I think we could easily have one of the top programs in the country for sustainable living - Sewanee is perfect for it ... we're already on our way. Keep up the good work!
Allow me to wax cheesy for a moment:
Looking back on my four years in college, I find that I can pretty easily draw some generalizations about how I've grown each year. Each semester seems to have its own taste, its own themes, its own lingering repercussions, built upon the previous semesters and upon pre-college life, growing in immensity and meanings. For example, I think my junior year was one in which I got acquainted with adventure and independence. Significantly, my senior year was in many ways the opposite; it has been defined and shaped by the power of relationships, encountering the value and power of friendship and love, devoting myself to people instead of places. I have come to reconsider what adventure is really worth if it is seen as exclusive of meaningful relationships. Perhaps dependence (at least partial dependence) is not shameful; instead, maybe it provides as much opportunity for a grand life as does a plane ticket. I've come to the conclusion throughout this year (especially this last semester, especially during graduation week) that people are not replaceable. One great relationship cannot replace another; something is always lost in losing contact with someone, inasmuch as something is always gained from entering into contact with new people. There's a power there. As I now face the opportunities of life after college, no longer with a formula of how or where or with whom to spend my time and devote my energy, that final conclusion will play a lasting part in how I participate in places, revere memory, engage with people and devote myself to them.
Strains within the system are starting to show. Simply put, industrial food is making the people who rely on it sick and fat, to the point that U.S. life expectancy looks set to decline for the first time in two centuries.It's a great article with a ton of interesting links. just read it. and then go figure out how to fix it.
If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine. This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.Any thoughts?