This particular study focuses on reestablishing the need for a plan and design that creates a more sustainable environment within certain communities, in this case a city such as San Diego. Creating a walkable and sustainable San Diego includes incorporating the new idea of walk audits expressed through the organization Walk San Diego, helping to answer the questions: What are walk audits and how are they used to create the idea of a sustainable environment? Walk audits analyze a particular...

Community farms are able to provide many positive contributions to society such as providing nutritious foods, improving the quality of life for the people involved, and offering education to the public on the processes of how food is grown. Although community farms provide many benefits to society, it is important not to neglect the environmental impact of farms to the surrounding landscape and document the sustainability level. This research study measured the degree of sustainability and...

The camel is in rut. The male camel in rut is ready for breeding. He is urinating on his tail and grinding his teeth. He is restlest.

Unless radical changes are made to the way the national food system interacts with the land, American agriculture will soon face a serious prospect of decline. While there is an abundance of research detailing innovative strategies working to make the national food system more sustainable, World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) is notably absent from this discourse. WWOOF is an organization that connects organic farms and volunteers. In exchange for farm work, WWOOF host farms...

Slideshow narrated by DOE JGI collaborator Chris Gobler of Stony Brook University regarding the first genome sequence of a harmful algal bloom (HAB) species - Aureococcus anophagefferens. The study was published ahead online February 23, 2011 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For more information, go to http://bit.ly/hkp0qq

This video shows how the VisTrails system (http://www.vistrails.org) supports the creation provenance-rich publications, whose results can be reproduced and verified.