Tricycle Gardens
What is 350? 350 is what climate scientist agree needs to be the PPM (parts per million)of carbon dioxiode in the atmosphere. Currently we are at 392 PPM, and rising. Prior to the 10/10/10, we are organizing an awareness campaign. Please join us by hanging a clothesline in your front yard. We will provide t-shirts painted with 350 to hang on your line. For $20 you get 3 t-shirts, clothes pins and clothes line. Stop by the 9th & B Farmstand, Tuesdays 4-7pm & Thursdays 4-7pm, and Saturdays 9-12am, or call Elli Sparks (804.475-6775) to arrange a pick up.
Then on 10/10/10, head on over to Tricycle Garden’s urban farm on Bainbridge and 9th Streets to visit a climate success story. We will spend the morning from 10 am – 1 pm preparing Richmond’s first urban farm for its winter hoop houses. After we’re done working, we’ll head on over to the Richmond Folk Festival, which is only a 15 minute walk from Tricycle Garden’s urban farm. Walk, bike, ride the bus, or car-pool to our event.
Thanks to Danny and Emmett, the Humphrey Calder Community Garden now has 220 gallons of rain water storage! AWESOME!
Yes, young people are getting out and getting dirty. Check out this amazing story of folks who are on the ground and in the dirt, changing the way we eat! READ MORE HERE>>
We now have RAIN BARRELS FOR SALE! Ready to hook up to your downspout. 55 gallons of free rain water! Good for the planet, good for your gardens. Made from re-purposed 55 gallon food grade barrels. Easy to connect multiples. $75 each. Call us at 804.231-7767 or email lisa@tricyclegardens.org to arrange pick up!
It’s this weekend, May 16th & 17th! Two days on entertaining, beautiful, handpicked movies, each with it’s own nuanced message about living ecoligically. MORE INFO HERE >>
U of R has just launched this new website which allows students and others to compare per capita energy usage in the dorms at U of R in real-time. They can also use the site to compare their energy usage converted into pounds of carbon, miles, dollars and lightbulbs. The university hopes to sponsor future inter-dorm competitions using this site to help reduce energy usage, as the site was only official launched on Thursday, April 2, 2009, at an educational fair where on- campus students were informed about energy saving behaviors and alternative energy sources. Check it out, and kudos to the University of Richmond!
Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer. I don’t know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in “An Inconvenient Truth” came long after Al Gore scared the hell out of me, constructing an utterly convincing case that the very survival of life on earth as we know it is threatened by climate change. No, the really dark moment came during the closing credits, when we are asked to . . . change our light bulbs. That’s when it got really depressing. The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart. read more
Congress passes its share of boondoggles, but there’s a real doozy on the docket April 18. If the nearly $300 billion Farm Bill passes in its current form, the American public will pay billions of dollars to large-scale farmers and food corporations for the following end results: an oversupply of unhealthful junk food that worsens our national obesity epidemic; severe depletion of soil and air through overuse of pesticides and destructive farming practices; and the hastened removal of small farms from the land, eroding the spirit and finances of rural communities across the U.S. (from Common Dreams, read more)
