Some of us have a professed love for garden snooping while on vacation—which always sends us home with new ideas for our own garden. But we also like checking out the bigger places, too: urban farms, community gardens, and botanical gardens. And if you don't want to go so far as to tend the fields on your vacay, this is a great way to experience the local ecology. More

Try to imagine amazingly innovative and beautiful animation work for the likes of Bjork and Grizzly Bear coming out of a modern day version of The Shire, complete with 21st century Hobbit homes? Once you take a good look at Trout Gulch, it will all make perfect sense. More

This was such a cool and interesting idea. In an effort to help residents in the light-deprived slums of Manila, Philippines get light in their homes, project managers took empty plastic water bottles, filled them with water and a few teaspoons of bleach, and installed them through holes on the roof, with half sitting on the rooftop and exposed to the sun, and the other half hanging down into the living space. When the sun hits the water, it refracts and sends light or "electricity" out into the room. Watch the video for the whole story. More

While on vacation my husband and I always try to make time to walk certain neighborhoods. Sure, we're looking for all sorts of things, but between you and me, I'm a total garden snoop! Here's why: More

If you happen to be traveling near Aptos, California this weekend, you may run across Trout Gulch, a "unique hillside neighborhood" designed and built by video directing collective Encyclopedia Pictura. Known for their computer graphics and extensive hand-built sets and props, the collective is "taking the DIY ethos a step further," as GOOD recently wrote, by building a town that embodies their value for "DIY skills, long term thinking, experiential education, and friendship."

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Established in 2010, the Ballard Bee Company began with four hives in owner Corky Luster's yard in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. But what started as a hobby soon grew into a full-fledged business and he now has a series of hives throughout the neighborhood. The result is raw, unfiltered honey that is local not just to a specific region but to a specific neighborhood. More

When it's time to uproot for jobs, school, or a passion for the unknown, you might have a city in mind, but what about a neighborhood? Unless you have spent a certain amount of time in a particular (and particularly beloved) area, it can be rather challenging to sort out just where to settle. Here are a few things to consider:

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It may come as no surprise that the hometown of Whole Foods' global HQ and a number of other well-loved foodie havens like Central Market, Wheatsville Co-op, and lovely farmers' markets, is about to unveil the first packaging-free store in the U.S. More

When I was younger, my mother kept a beautiful garden in the sloped front, reaching down to the well-traveled sidewalk. But because we lived on a busy strip close to a high school where, passersby would often rip flowers and shrubs out of the beds with no remorse. Usually it was the school kids, but not always. More

The Environmental Health Clinic, based at NYU, is a clinic and lab, just like other health clinics at universities, but with one big exception: this clinic dispenses prescriptions for solving your local environmental concerns (rather than your individual health concerns).

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