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Rachel sits down with her sister and brother-in-law, Rebekah and Stephen Hren, authors and inhabitants of "The Carbon-Free Home" (www.thecarbonfreehome.com)
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Brooklyn Eats Introduction: Let The Sunshine In (14:13)
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Edible Brooklyn, edible New York, Electric Avenue, carbon footprint, The Carbon Free Home, www.thecarbonfreehome.com, DIY projects to reduce emmisssions, fossil energy, solar electricity, green construction, retrofitting existing construction, peeing in a bottle, Durham North Carolina, passive water heating, incredible edible landscaping, the unsustainable food loop, using your urine, growth zones, meyer lemons, dwarf bananas, sprouts and mushrooms for apartment dwellers, mung beans in mason jars, delicious squash sprouts, edible urban gardening, cooling buildings through rooftop gardening, green roofs, cooking in solar ovens, solarcookers.org, you are a total badass, Stephen Hren, Rachel Wharton, Rebekah Hren,The Carbon-Free Home (19:10)
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The Carbon Free Home, reducing your carbon footprint, Hren is Slovenian for horseraddish, horseraddish is slang for units, mushroom logs, shitakis, the gourmet decomposers, mushrooms like to be petted, mushrooms are the fruits of mycelium, those white stringy things, fungi.com, how mushrooms are going to save the world, mushroom of the month club, Paul Stamats, innoculated log delivery, impetus to get in the kitchen, the nutritional value of sprouts, sprouts vs beans, wild fermentaion, induction cooktop, electric resistance heat, magnetic induction, green tags, buying and selling green energy through the utility company, NC Green Power, moving away from fossil fuels, efficiency versus renewablity, solar electric panels, fifty percenty of municipality energy use goes into water purification, only heat up as much water as you need, hang your clothes to dry, never use a clothes dryer, Hearst Ranch, Rebekah and Stephen Hren,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/06/2009 04:00PM
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On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine talks with Ethan Roland of Appleseed Permaculture and John Good of Quiet Creek Farm about carbon and composting.
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Soil Ecosystems, Composting, and the Future of Farming (14:35)
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John Good, Quiet Creek Farm, Ethan Roland, Future of Farming, Carbon, Community Supported Agriculture, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Appleseed Permaculture, Carbon Farming Course, compost fields in fall, soil science, soil as giant defensive system, mix of leaves and animal manures, microorganisms and beneficial bacteria, healthy soil ecosystem, two-thirds of all species threatened by extinction, good practices and the removal carbon from atmosphere, failing tomato crops, soil food web, plants take CO2 out of atmosphere, Rodale Institute, turning waste into fertilizer, 4-6% of organic matter in Good's fields, neighboring farmers aim for 3%, South African tomato farms, climate and chaos, compost as primary nutrient source, 1 acre can remove 2-3 tons of carbon,Composting as Modern Day Alchemy and the Re-localization of Food and Agriculture (14:07)
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adequate composting in suburban area, composting as modern day alchemy, planting food forests in suburban setting, both annual and perennial food crop production, government-led change, more equitable distribution of dollars, sustainable farming, re-localization of food and agriculture, polyface, community activism, how to get involved, learn by doing, holistic resource management, keyline design, food forestry, carbonfarmingcourse.blogspot.com, twitter.com/carbonfarming, Joel Salatin, Elaine Ingham,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/14/2009 04:00PM
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On this week's At the Root of It, Erin talks with Jaime Smith, professor of wine studies at UNLV, about eco-friendly closures and reducing the carbon footprint of wine production and distribution.
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The Weekly Wine Recap (3:20)
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Testa Wines, Bulgarian customs officers find liquid cocaine hidden in Bolivian wine bottles, Jim Meehan of PDT named Bartender of the Year at Tales of the Cocktail,The Cork Debate Resumes with Jaime Smith (12:13)
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cork, closures, Jaime supports cork because it is natural, cork is perfect sustainable and organic closure, lets in air, does cork taint wine?, misinformation about corked wine, rubber bullets, petrochemical ring attached to non-cork closures, wine loses life, cork lets the wine evolve to maturity, 685 million Brittish pounds lost to cork taint yearly, grades of cork, cork used for insulation lifejackets buoys, cork huge Portuguese industry, wine only a small part of cork industry, not everyone is making wine to age, wine cork recycling, non-cork closures the future for cheap wine,Calculating Wine's Carbon Footprint (19:10)
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consumers often determine a wine's carbon footprint, traveling food and wine miles, choose local wines if you want to stay sustainable, South American wines have largest footprint, ship vs. train vs. plane vs. sailboat transport, organic and sustainable practices at winery most important factor in footprint equation, flavor variation in biodynamic wines, half bottles bad in carbon practice, package wine more sustainably, no to styrofoam packaging, PVC's, oak vs. oak chips, oak flavoring, Jaime professor of domestic wine at UNLV, new world vs. old world, beverage degree at UNLV, tech vs. non-tech, Nicholas Joy, oenoverse,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
