Source: alternet.org Published: February 2, 2015 Written by Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos St. Louis Rams center Jason Brown has left the NFL to pursue farming: “My agent told me, ‘You’re making the biggest mistake of your life,’” Brown told CBS. “And I looked right back...
Source: sciencedaily.com Published: February 3, 2016 Study analyzes 40 years of science against 4 areas of sustainability Source: Washington State University Washington State University researchers have concluded that feeding a growing global population with...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: February 10, 2016 Jesse McDougall’s farm, Studio Hill, in Shaftsbury, Vermont. BY Kiss the Ground and Regeneration International Kiss the Ground and Regeneration International announced today support for Vermont’s Senate Bill 159,...
Source: treehugger.com Published: December 22, 2015 Video screen capture Agenda Gotsch Sami Grover When Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch bought 1,200 acres of completely deforested land on the edge of the rainforest in 1984, it was known as “Dry Lands.”...
Source: permaculturenews.org Published: August 3, 2010 Wooden debris will decompose faster, (and be transformed into a resource) when hugelkultur techniques are employed. Melissa Miles Used for centuries in Eastern Europe and Germany, hugelkultur (in German...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 11, 2015 Cole Mellino “Sometimes, you think ‘oh everyone is getting into farming, it’s the cool thing to do now.’ But actually that’s not true at all. No one’s getting into farming,”...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: May 26, 2015 Lorraine Chow The world is less than 40 years away from a serious problem: producing enough food for 9 billion mouths. But with climate change cutting more than a quarter of crop yields by 2050, innovators must devise...
Source: mnn.com Published: April 1, 2015 Roadside salad greens, anyone? Air Orchard produces 2,800 heads of lettuce per week. (Video screenshot: FCB Mayo Peru/YouTube) Matt Hickman Bird feeders. Homeless shelters. Air purifiers. What could possibly come next in the...
Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: March 6, 2015 Seawater is piped to a concentrated solar power plant that powers an evaporative desalination system. The distilled water is used to irrigate plants. (Sahara Forest Project) Solar power plants in Qatar and Jordan,...
