This engaging field guide for the urban explorer, gardener, or armchair enthusiast traces the history of weeds as they migrated out of the Middle East with human tribes and spread across Europe and the Americas, details the folklore surrounding them, and explains their role in the evolution of agriculture and human civilizations as wells as… Read more »
It takes 8 gallons of water to grow a tomato, 616 gallons to make a burger patty. In fact, the food each of us consumes per day represents an investment of 4,500 gallons of water. IN this densely populated state where it rains only half the year where does all that water come from? This… Read more »
“Recycling, once a gangly, wide-eyed youth, all arms and legs, has grown up and now faces those pesky problems that come with adulthood, like making money. And the big garbage companies that once sneered at recycling, like Consolidated Scavenger, now want to take over.
Berkeley bookkeeper, Brian Hunter, seeking to reinvent himself as a reporter,… Read more »
Inspiring and building a sustainable, healthy, and just future for the East Bay, California, and beyond.
