Desert in Bloom

Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve, CA
from flickr/lkunarsky 

Spruced

Check out the lovely little spirals on this Colorado Blue Spruce flower…
from flickr/starwillowstudio 

WGY Enters Hibernation

By Adam Brock
I love blogging. Since I started WGY last January, its been instrumental in helping me clarify my thoughts on the regeneration and get them out to a broad (and growing) audience. But part of that same process has been the dawning realization that, like most of us in the overdeveloped world, I [...]

The Roots of Freeganism Part IV: Community in America

By Nelson Harvey

“Could you please turn it down, just a little bit?!” Janet Kalish turned away from me and yelled across the room, to the group of neighborhood kids bunched around the community center’s single computer. They were blasting rap music as loud as the speakers would go, and some of the boys, [...]

The Roots of Freeganism Part I: Food Waste

By Nelson Harvey
Freeganism, the philosophy of non-participation in the capitalist economy through minimization of what one buys, has been getting heaps of press lately, with outlets as high-rolling as the New York Times and the Washington Post running pieces on the subject. But while much recent media coverage focuses on what it’s like to [...]

WGY is on Flickr!

Fellow Econauts on the Green Brick Road,
The authors of the Wild Green Yonder are proud to announce that we now have a group page on Flickr. We’ll be posting our photos on different aspects of the regeneration, and we invite you to join our group and/or show us your own photographic creations.
Here’s an idea of [...]

Waste Bytes. Can We Compute A Solution?

By Nelson Harvey
What if I offered you a free airplane flight with the purchase of a wireless calling plan? That’s precisely what the phone company T-Mobile did over Thanksgiving weekend this year, and it’s just one of the flood of deals that companies are offering this holiday in an attempt to move phones, computers, [...]

UN, NYU, IPCC. With This Many Acronyms, It’s Gotta Be Good

 by Nelson Harvey

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at NYU
 I always thought it would be strange to be president of some prominent organization, be it a corporation, an NGO, a university, or a nation. It seems like a life packed with back to back meetings and speeches, campaign stops and fundraisers, and it makes me wonder: [...]

Can It!

By Nelson Harvey
One of the best ways to insure that important problems get solved is to make it fun to solve them. That’s the spirit behind “Canstruction,” a national competition that pits design firms against each other annually to build the most compelling sculpture out of full cans of food. Each sculpture plays on the [...]

Harvesting in the Concrete Jungle

By Nelson Harvey
This Thursday, many of us will eat more than we do on any other day of the year. I thought it was a good time for a couple of posts on food, and the incredible abundance of food that has turned out to be a mixed blessing for this country in so [...]