My World Too

Learn about WHOOF USA, an organization providing hands-on mentoring at organic farms across the nation. Visit an aquaponic greenhouse in the heart of the inner city growing Tilapia fish and fresh produce while combatting urban food insecurity. And a high-tech start up in the heart of the bread basket using robots for chemical-free large scale farming.

Visit a company turning tons of commercial food waste back into healthy compost for gardening, keeping organic matter out of the landfill. Immigrant refugee families from Asia are mentored in the U.S. to start family-run small farms to sell produce in the local farmer’s markets. In Moab, Utah, meet a team of people building sustainable homes out of straw.

Explore an herbal apothecary in Boulder, Colorado using techiques nearly two centuries old. A state university is using the earth as their classroom for local growers eager to learn farm to market organic practices. AY Young, a global leader on sustainability with the UN, powers his Battery Tour music and his global mission with solar energy.

Meet a midwest couple that built their dream home mostly from free materials on Craig’s List and discarded timber. Visit a mill that specializes in urban lumber from trees damaged by storms or cut down for expansion in the city. Take in the beauty and aroma of a world-class lavender farm in western Colorado.

Meet makers and creators that bring a new life to old materials from fashion design to microscopes. A family seed company in the Missouri Ozarks is collecting, saving and selling seed varieties from all across the globe.

Imagine a store dedicated to the hobby and business of beekeeping and all things honey. We visit the regenerative farm of Hank Wills, editor at large for Mother Earth News, where he practices what he preaches. Learn how and why a major US city provides free fares for all city buses and street car system.

Learn how to plan a home that is efficient as it is beautiful nestled on the front range of the Rockies. Visit a company that turns yard waste and tree debris into garden mulch for the retail market. Learn how a company keeps literally millions of glass bottles out of the landfill and makes new glass with less energy to make more bottles.

Visit an architecture firm with an emphasis on sustainable design, building for a better future in a time of climate change and limited carbon resources. Next, an entire neighborhood of tiny homes dedicated to helping homeless US veterans.