Uprooted, an eco/travel blog

Community gardens bring people together, beautify neighborhoods, improve the climate and feed the poor. Here’s how you can get involved, even if you don’t have much time to spare.

Bike culture has changed: what was once a rich man’s sport is now the pastime of artists and anarchists. How bicycles can (and will) change our lives.

Sprouting alfalfa at home is so easy, you’ll wonder why you ever paid so much for it at the store.

Guerrilla gardening: it’s like vandalism for hippies. Watch us attack Louisville with petals.

Sustainable living is cheap living. Here are some ideas from two kids who live green, cheap, and happy in Louisville, Kentucky.

Got Couch? Trucker Cap

Today, friends, is the 2nd annual International CouchSurfing Day!
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term: CouchSurfing.org is a web-based community built around the ideals of freeganism and community participation. The concept is simple: if you have a couch or extra bed in your home, why not share it with [...]

That’s right, it’s AmeriCorps Week, and this year it’s a bigger deal than usual: less than a month ago, President Obama signed the Serve America Act, which hugely increased funding for national service. He also urged all Americans to think about how they can contribute during this economic downturn, and I can’t say but I [...]

Because it’s still pretty chilly out, I’m not back on the WWOOF train yet. Still, I wanted to do some volunteering while I was in town, so I signed up to spend a day working with Habitat.
Volunteering is easy: you just sign up on habitat.org, show up at the build site, and they put you [...]