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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 106 weeks 4 days 12 hours 28 minutes ago
Three guys start keeping bees and gardening on the rooftops of Brooklyn.
(Note,at one point they talk about how it's illegal to keep bees in NYC -- this actually changed recently and people can now keep bees in the city.)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 104 weeks 2 days 3 hours 8 minutes ago
Run-down, ransacked and abandoned neighborhoods in Detroit could come back to life with the help of apple orchards, Christmas-tree fields and large-scale city farm networks that could help rejuvenate the city and give disadvantaged city residents a place to cultivate crops such as strawberries, mushrooms and...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 104 weeks 2 days 3 hours 10 minutes ago
When people think of Detroit, most times they know the city as the Motown or the Motor City. A local non-profit organization is working to change that. Their name is Urban Farming and they are planting gardens in unused land in urban cities, rooftops, walls, in...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 243 weeks 4 days 21 hours 36 minutes ago
Hey, it looks like people are writing about CityTools out there -- I couldn't figure out who the MiniMediaGuy is, but I read some of his other stuff and he is pretty sharp. Apparently he worked with Bob at some point.
The author notes the power of...(more)
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submitted by MikeK 239 weeks 6 days 28 minutes ago
This one million voices effort hasn't made much of an impact where I live. I hope it's bigger in the Middle East.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Bicyclism 104 weeks 6 days 16 hours 23 minutes ago
Natalie Galatzer has been up working since 11:30pm yesterday. By the time you read this, the petite, curly-haired, 26 year-old will have ridden her bike from her home in the Mission to her kitchen in the Marina, baked more than 70 handheld pies, jumped back on...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 164 weeks 1 day 11 hours 11 minutes ago
It might have ended so differently, if Robert Lemire had not decided on pizza for dinner or if Alex Day had not come to the apartment on Haverhill Street for Bible study.
Neither might have seen the heart-stopping sight of a girl in a diaper and...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 96 weeks 2 days 15 hours 25 minutes ago
In downtown Detroit there are 40 sq. miles of unused land that may soon be home to a commercial agriculture operation where produce will be grown and animals raised for local consumption. We recently talked with Mike Score of Hantz Farms to learn more about the...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Mysteries of the Universe 62 weeks 12 hours 55 minutes ago
Amid the silent corpses a baby cried out - and Japan met its tiniest miracle.
On March 14 soldiers from the Japanese Defense Force were going door-to-door, pulling bodies from homes flattened by the earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki City, a coastal town northeast of Senda. More...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 128 weeks 3 days 15 hours 45 minutes ago
About 130 children in the custody of the Los Angeles County Department of Family and Children Services will take part in a mock flight to the North Pole today.
The flight to Santa’s home is set to depart from LAX in a Boeing 747 this afternoon. As...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 160 weeks 3 days 22 hours 36 minutes ago
Willa Chen has a knack for tough tests.
The Detroit News reported Saturday that the 17-year-old senior at southeast Michigan's Canton High School got perfect scores on the ACT — and the SAT — and the PSAT.
ACT Inc. spokeswoman Mary Owens says it's "quite an accomplishment."
The College...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 194 weeks 1 day 22 hours 18 minutes ago
Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday then faded as it moved inland, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina...(more)
