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Wyoming Startup Builds 3-Story Vertical Farm to Employ People With Disabilities
Jackson, Wyoming, is an unlikely place for urban farming: At an altitude over a mile high, with snow lasting into May, the growing season...
An Algae Farm Designed To Suck Up Highway Pollution
A highway overpass might seem like an unlikely place to grow algae, but actually it's ideal: Car exhaust turns out to be the perfect...
A Farm Grows in Brooklyn—on the Roof
You've heard of rooftop gardens? Now there are rooftop farms, complete with chickens, starting to appear across the globe on sunny expanses of warehouse...
Vertical Farms Sprouting All Over the World
Urban warehouses, derelict buildings and high-rises are the last places you'd expect to find the seeds of a green revolution. But from Singapore to...
Fortune 500 Firm Teams With Carolina Nonprofit to Help Urban Families
Volunteers with Sow Much Good say their newly-constructed micro farm on land leased by Martin Marietta will help improve the health of families who...
Actor Wendell Pierce Opens Grocery Stores in Urban Food Deserts
As a boy, Wendell Pierce dreamed of leaving his hometown one day for the world stage. Today, the veteran actor with global credits has...
Eco-Village Prospers as Green Alternative to Urban Sprawl
An eco-village community in Palmetto, Georgia was founded on principles of farm-to-table cooking, & green building techniques. The high-tech eco-village...
From Motown to Growtown: Urban Gardens Revitalize City and Feed Poor
A 2-Acre city lot in Detroit is now a thriving garden of fresh produce, thanks to Urban Farming.
Taja Sevelle saw the hundreds of acres...
City to Offer Workshop on How to Raise Backyard Chickens
Ever wanted to learn how to raise your own backyard foul in an ethical and sustainable way? Well now is your chance.
Man Creates Gardens For Unwanted Bees, Grows Free Food in 30 Abandoned Lots
Even though the Ninth Ward of New Orleans has never fully recovered from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, this man has created a lush oasis of...
Crops Grown on Barge Lets Folks in NYC Pick Free Food From Docks
If people can’t get to a neighborhood garden, this group promises to bring the garden to them.
A project called Swale has built an “edible forrest”...
Homeless Shelter’s 80-Bed Rooftop Garden Cultivates Fresh Food and Job Skills
Shelter residents are harvesting organic produce to nourish themselves while growing their skills for an eventual return to the workforce.
The Metro Atlanta Task Force for...
Field of Greens: Baseball Stadiums Grow Veggies on Roof to Feed Fans
Take me out to the garrr-den!
Take me out to the greens!
Forget peanuts and Cracker Jacks. A handful of Major League Baseball teams have started...
Baltimore is a Five-Star City – Gets the Rating to Prove it
Baltimore, Maryland has been in the headlines lately for all the wrong reasons, but one organization is shining a positive light on the so-called...
Contest Produces 5 Outside-The-Box Ideas To Change U.S. Cities
The Mayor’s Challenge is a contest run by Bloomberg Philanthropies to find the best ideas bubbling out of our cities--from data mining to turning...
Young Indonesians Green Their Concrete City
Young Indonesians are breathing new life into their polluted concrete capital city with little more than buckets of soil and seeds.
A group of mostly...
Cuba’s Agricultural Revolution an Example to the World
An organic, green revolution, largely unnoticed, is well under way in Cuba — unprecedented both within the developed and undeveloped world — establishing a self-sustaining system...
Good News in History, April 28
6 years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India had achieved its goal, ahead of schedule, of providing electricity to every village...
Good News in History, April 27
6 years ago today, the Panmunjom Declaration was signed by President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong-un, declaring the intention to end the Korean...
Good News in History, April 13
Today is Vaisakhi, the second most important day of the year on the Punjabi calendar, on which Sikhs from around the world celebrate a...