Into the wilderness?

I really like living in the city. I tried living in a small town in the woods for a year. It didn's go well. I got bored. I burned a lot of gas driving to the movie theater 40 miles away. But I love the woods too. I grew up camping with my family and melting the soles of my shoes in the campfire as a Boy Scout. So while I'm here in the city enjoying movies, plays, art, music, multiple languages, exotic foods and whatever else is around the corner, I also want to try and do as little to damage the nature out there that I love. In trying to find books about how to live sustainably (in other words trying to take only as much as nature can restore itself) I found that most of them are about people living out in the country, with solar panels on their straw bale houses and organic tomatoes growing in the backyard. I'd like to figure out more about how to live right here in the city where I don't have to tear another hole in the forest. So this is going to be the chronicle of my neverending experiment of how to live in a better relationship with the environment while staying in the big machine of the city.

Since I just got back from stuffing myself over Thanksgiving, I thought it would be good (for me) to start looking at the way I eat, buy and cook food. I'm going to start by looking at whether organic stuff is really available at the big supermarkets or if Whole Foods is the only game in town.