Vanity Fair is the latest magazine to come out with a “green issue”, their second one. We also have in our living room the “Annual Green Issue” of the Chicago Life supplement to the New York Times. Chicago Magazine recently had a “Green Awards” feature on its cover. Even Elle magazine had a green issue last spring. Wired has joined the bandwagon. So has Domino. Even Parents magazine had a green feature in their March 2007 issue. I’m sure I’m missing a few, but you get the idea. Green is hip. Very hip.

I wonder how long we’ll continue to see magazines featuring “green” issues as something that’s new and exciting and easily brought into the mainstream. Will it mean that we’re all doing something right when these special segments no longer appear, instead replaced with the same old boring bamboo furniture and organic evening gowns? I hope so. In the meantime, I still miss Organic Style.

Peak Energy pointed me to a post on  WorldChanging about interesting art exhibit in Maastrich, Netherlands.

The Edible City

In the distant past, the city functioned more or less as a self-sustaining system. All that now remains is consumption.

But a counter movement is emerging. Its adherents aim to bring production, distribution, consumption and, often, recycling closer together, and thus contribute to a more sustainable world.

The Edible City exhibition mixes admirably pragmatic proposals as well as utopian schemes that each, in its very original way, has the potential to enable city-dwellers to meet their own food requirements. The design of the exhibition itself is as engaging and pleasant as its content: much of the show is itself edible. You find models, videos, images, descriptions of projects among young salads and other plants. The whole space makes you feel like you’re in some kind of greenhouse.

[tags]urbaneco, city, urban, food production [/tags]