The New York Times Magazine's green Issue includes these garden-related goodies:
- In the article "Act" there's information about a "Compost Feast".
- Under "Live" you'll find the imperative to "Plant More Trees", a piece about "Urban Farming", and a nice mention of Project Laundry List (not actually about gardening but the nonprofit is a friend of GardenRant).
- Michael Pollan's "Why Bother?" is long but at the very bottom of page 3 he starts to make the case for gardening, beginning with this: "Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do — to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind." Keep reading on page 4.
- In "Greener Pastures," TV host Bill Nye reports having cut his water usage in HALF by switching from lawn to vegetables. Really? Now you know I'm pro-vegetable but I bet he could have achieved the same savings by just letting the damn lawn go dormant in the summer.
- In "Bugged Out," we learn that Isabella Rossellini crawls around her garden observing bug sex.
Hey Susan, I cheered when I saw how much ink and cyber-ink the venerable NY Times spent on green issues in honor of Earth Day. I read everything Michael Pollan writes because his presentations seem to be balanced enough and so logical that he might win over at least some of the recalcitrant anti-environment holdouts. Each one counts. Ginny
Posted by: Ginny Stibolt | April 21, 2008 at 08:23 AM