This is just a short photo blog to show what’s ready to harvest in John’s plot today.
I recently attended the Culture of Collaboration Workshop at the GoGreen Conference. The session focused on engaging employees and coworkers through cooperative…
This was my second visit to the GoGreen Conference; the first time was several years ago. I went to film one of the presentations and some of the vendors. While I was there, I also found these cute little robots and some interesting swag. The…
Mark Lakeman, one of the founders of The City Repair Project, teaches us about the principles of placemaking. I’ve been following The City Repair Project’s placemaking event called the Village Building Convergence for about 10…
On the first day of our Urban Permaculture Design Course, Mark Lakeman takes us on a tour around the neighborhood that he helped build. He shows us the cob cat condo, banana trees, his greywater system, and community…
The news tells us that use of bar soap is on the decline, driven down by millennials who prefer liquid soap for washing their bodies and hands. However, many environmentally-conscious folks are returning to bar soap, purchasing everything from hand and body soap to shampoo and conditioner…
Before our design course began, Mark sat down with us to describe the systems that we would be using at the Planet Repair Institute. The toilet at the center uses greywater, as does the handwash sink. And there are pee rags on a shelf…
The UPDC course I’m taking has put me in a design group that will be helping to design some of the systems for the Veterans Village project that will house 30 houseless people in Clackamas County, Oregon. I went with Michele, a team…
