Putting more of Raleigh on the map

Have you seen Sundance Channel's new green forum? It's called Eco-mmunity and it has a searchable map that points out local businesses with green practices. Clearly this hasn't really caught on in the Raleigh area- there are about 6 stars on our local map, two of which are Whole Foods- but it could be a good reference eventually. It fits in nicely with the GHFR idea of supporting local green business. Now they just need to sign up...

The site also provides email, green advice, a directory of green blogs, and even a little green quiz that separates the champions from the coffeecups.

Daniel Mathewson

Thanks to Marianne for spotting this guy and this story in the Indy:

"He's a metal sculptor with a keen
appreciation for junk and all its potential."

Daniel Mathewson has a keen appreciation
for junk and all its potential. Leigh Emery

Found the post below on City Farmer TV --

Apartment Community Garden

Not far from our garden is a new and unusual community garden. Next to a tall apartment building, residents have been given permission to dig up part of the building’s landscape and plant veggies.

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HA Schult 's Trash People

On converting trash into art, large scale:

German artist HA Schult took a really direct approach to reuse art in his 1996 'Trash People' installation. Granted, they're all held together with Henkel adhesives (who interestingly enough both sponsor him and use him as advertising.. read their boasting here.) These 'people' have been traveling around the world for the past 10 years, and are spending this summer in Barcelona. Schult has been compared to Christo and Jeanne-Claude- although the only really strong resemblance is scale.

Taken from his website, a little rough due to the translation from German:

"We live in the trash time: we produce trash and we become trash. Therefore HA Schult's 'Trash People' are images of ourselves.

In 1996, when HA Schult has installed one thousand life sized 'Trash People', in the Amphitheatre of Xanten, the idea was born to send them around the world.

Like the pyramids of Giza send messages to us from times past, HA Schult's 'Trash People' will travel as a 'now time expression' to the world's most important spots."

To read the whole text and see some of the places the Trash People have traveled, go here.

what ever will he do when the world runs out of trash? :)