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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Courtney Hamilton
Man vs Nature
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January 16, 2009: Three days before I returned from New Year's vacation I was stung by a scorpion in my bedroom, but surprisingly (to my roommates back home) I put the onus of culpability upon myself and the hotel, not the little critter.It’s... read more >
Traveler's Dilemma
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December 12, 2008: Just this last June, LA Times columnist Dan Neil astutely observed that "on a fundamental level, ecotourism is a contradiction in terms" and so he begged his readers, "Please don't go." The premise of his... read more >
The Aussie Global Warming Diet: Veggies, Chicken, and Kangaroo Meat
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October 16, 2008: Since I left Thailand, lots of things have happened. Citizen protests have errupted in in Bangkok, violence and gunfire has spread along the Thai/Cambodian border, and elsewhere in the Asia/Oceana region, an Australian... read more >
Looks Like a Tiger, Walks Like a Drunk
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September 29, 2008:   Meow, was, by all means, a gorgeous tiger. He was also charmingly kind and sweet and was known to enjoy a good scratch on the belly from his cartakers. But, of course, Meow-- the special tiger-- had a special kind of story... read more >
That's Right-- the Red Bucket IS the Flush
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September 17, 2008: One conservation measure that I learned while I was in Thailand at the wildlife sanctuary was how to use a Thai Flush. Basically, that meant that when it was time to flush you'd take a scoop of water from the bucket on the... read more >
The Downside of Adaptation
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September 8, 2008: Thai elephants are not alone in the continued loss of habitat. Despite a complete ban on commercial logging in 1988, illegal logging still continues in some areas and the government is regularly faced with the challenges... read more >
How to Walk an Elephant
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August 25, 2008: In Thailand the image of the elephant is ubiquitous: on money, on buildings, on archways, gateways, and even jewelry. But the everywhereness of the elephant is rather ironic-- according to a recent article by Science Daily... read more >
Runaway Pachaderym
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August 20, 2008: My first day at the volunteer camp I woke up at 6.30am to fetch the elephants from their hiding places in the forest. But after about an hour of waiting in a clearing for the mahouts to come back with their charges it... read more >
Animal Farm, Thai Style
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August 12, 2008: About a year ago, when I was an intern doing youth outreach at NRDC, I developed an interest in elephants. As a mini-project I was researching eco-tourism: who goes on these trips, how do they find out about them, how might... read more >
Courtney Hamilton