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Past Events:
"The Economics of Happiness" Film Premier & Local Living Expo
Frances Moore Lappe & Friends: Discovering the EcoMind Connection
Picture a seamless blend of sustainable form and function, a botanical nirvana combined with the pragmatic functionality of do-it-yourself workshops, transformed into a place to shop, learn and enjoy. By combining an imaginative, fresh aesthetic with hands-on classes, Dig Gardens offers the best of green design and sustainable living solutions.
What’s a local food lover to do? Across the country, the USDA is enforcing policies that favor big ag and factory farms over their small and family-operated cousins. Crime in question? Selling fresh foods to happy customers within their communities. While the current political climate renders this far from shocking, it’s scary stuff in a place […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Uplifting, calming, transcendent and euphoric are a few words to describe the experience I had at Chaikhana tea house in Santa Cruz”, writes reviewer Ashley B. from Los Gatos. With no way to top that, I’ll focus on the authentic Chinese tea ceremony offered to visitors, which is a wonderful introduction into the culture known […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My first encounter with Transition Santa Cruz happened a few years ago, when I was promoting a local “No Impact Man” film event. I’d recently learned of this local movement advocating a philosophy that aligned with the No Impact mission, so I went to a meeting at the Los Barrios Center on Soquel to learn […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Joe Jordan knows renewable energy. He also knows that our nation’s current policy of business as usual, the “harnessing the powers of darkness” as it were, has huge implications for our ability to sustain life here on earth. Because instead of relying on the plentiful, clean energy we have ample opportunity to access, we’re focusing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sleepy little Soquel has plenty to offer even the most devoted organic foodie. We include Love Apple and Casalegno’s among the region’s finest for their fabulous heirloom varietals, but don’t to add forget Everett Family Farms to your list of local havens.
Weekly Santa Cruz dish, from the best in locally produced goods, to cultural news and not-to-be missed events.
