***Coming Tuesday at RW&G: A Profile of Roger Doiron
of Kitchen Gardeners International & Eat The View.***
This week's potpourri of Victory Garden/sustainability stories:
• "Bring Back the Victory Gardens" (Everday University (blog), 1 April 2008)
• "Save the Planet, Save Cash" (ecosalon.com, 5 July 2008)
• Ecountry Lifestyle.com - You know, I'm not sure what I make of this just yet...but I link to it because it's new and somehow germane...I think....
• "Food Prices Give Triangle a Taste for Gardening" (Fayetteville Observor, 6 July 2008)
• "Soaring Food, Gas Prices Have People Digging in the Garden" (Tribune Star (Terre Haute), 6 July 2008) - Note that AP picked this up and appeared on the Chicago Trib's web site, too.
• "Exercise Freedom, Grow Your Own Food" (Clarionledger.com (Ms.), 4 July 2008)
• "Manicured Front Lawns Turn into Farmed Plots for Food" (Asian Tribune, 6 July 2008) - Interesting foreign POV on the phenomenon
• "Local Gardens Foster an Ethic of the Land" (Llewellyn Journal, 30 June 2008)
• "Our Victory Garden" (YouTube.com, no date)
• "War Posters" (Squidoo, no date) - lots of good VG and WWII-era propaganda
• "History of Sustainability" (Sustainable Hudson Valley (site), no date)
• Voluntary Simplicity, or Simple Living (Wikipedia, no date)
• Affluenza and Status Anxiety (Wikipedia, no date)
A News Link From a Colorado Reader (Thanks!):
• "City Chicks: Easy-to-Keep Animals Part of a Growing Off-the-Farm Trend" (Gazette, 1 July 2008) - Noteworthy bit about a new trend...links to Backyard Chickens
Interesting Stuff For Bloggers:
• We Can Solve It! for Press & Bloggers - Get the RSS feed for Gore's bipartisan initiative and place it on your site.
• Adoptic- Alpha testing a new blog promotion tool...they just set up a new "Gardening" community...check it out...
A Few Noteworthy Sustainability/Simple Living Sites/Blogs:
Feel free to share your sustainability-themed links (articles, blogs, web sites, widgets, mainstream media, whatever...) in the moderated Comments section of this post.
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