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Ellen Dunham-Jones  speaks at a Ted Conference on re-thinking suburbia in a post fosil fuel world. This is a facinating and optimistic look into a possible future. While some would argue that the suburban model of development is a dead end and a future wasteland, Dunham proposes a possible future an urban lifestyle in the [...]

Urbis in Horto is the motto for Chicago and in Latin it means City in a Garden.

Most people I have met want to do the right thing and when they don’t it is more often because they have given no thought to what the right thing is in that situation. When it comes to plastic, we have not done enough thinking. NOT AT ALL!! We continue to take a soon to be diminishing resource and continue to waste it on disposable uses.

One day my neighbor Tony popped his head over the fence while I was out back working and said “Hey Man! I see you’re gettin your garden on. Thats cool.” It made me think, that is what the experience is like. Gardening is like getting a groove on with the earth.


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  • Dare to have an adventure September 3, 2010
    I found out about Wilderness Inquiry through one of my company’s interns, an amazing young woman named Virginia Pendleton. Virginia is spending her summer as an Outdoor Leader with Wilderness Inquiry, leading adventure trips.  Wilderness Inquiry is an award-winning, non-profit organization in Minneapolis that helps people from all walks of life personall […]
  • Toyota COO Acknowledges Peak Oil September 3, 2010
    While the rest of the automotive industry and bussiness world are wondering about the long term impact of Toyota’s recent recalls, the company clearly remains focused on the future in ways that the rest of the industry seems to be missing all together. Jim Lentz the Director of Toyota Motor Sales in North America makes […]