Fresh Taste Blog

Thanks to Rachel, this is an invaluable Chicago Food Blog:

freshtaste.typepad.com

The following are highlights from the last few posts:
Chicago Public Radio - "South Siders Spend Billions Each Year Outside Of Their Neighborhoods"

Growing Home Informational Video

Sundry

Edible Estates: conversion of lawn space into productive garden space
http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/edibleestates/main.html

Foodprint: Dutch initiative to increase awareness of food production in The Hague
http://www.stroom.nl/activiteiten/manifestatie.php?m_id=4645496

Free Soil: good blog/link source on kindred initiatives
http://www.free-soil.org/

Recitas Urbanas: group finding loopholes/potentials in the bureaucracy of space
http://www.recetasurbanas.net/index.php?idioma=ENG#img

Community garden sites

Check out these two links. The first is the Chicago centered site, the second is the national site. Tons of good stuff from Top 10 gardening tools, to soil contamination information.

greennetchicago.org

communitygarden.org

Portable Architecture

Here are a few brief links and books of interest in the realm of moveable architecture:

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/11/more_mobile_por.php

Keister, Douglas. Teardrops and Tiny Trailers. Gibbs Smith, 2008.
Kronenburg, Robert. Portable Architecture: Design and Technology. 1st ed. Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
Siegal, Jennifer. More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today. 1st ed. Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.
Siegal, Jennifer, Robert Kronenburg, and Andrei Cordescu. Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture. 1st ed. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

More to come on building with recycled/reclaimed materials...