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Aquaponics is an environmentally-friendly, natural food growing method to facilitate the cultivation of fish and plants together in a constructed, re-circulating ecosystem utilizing natural bacterial cycles to convert fish wastes to plant nutrients. It is also called as recirculation farming. Recirculation farms are a socially responsible farming method and business ... keep reading
Written by Naseem Sheikh this week, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Recycling
At the end of January, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down California’s ban on processing of non-ambulatory, or “downer,” livestock, specifically pigs and hogs. The ban on the sale of pigs too weak to walk cannot be enforced because a less rigorous law regulates slaughterhouse inspections. California state ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell this week, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior (2 comments)
India has decided to take a case against corporate giant, Monsanto for bio-piracy. This will be the first case of its kind and will create precedents for others keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Agriculture & Food, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development
Delicious TV and Vegan Mainstream have joined together to promote the Indie GoGo crowd sourced funding campaign for Delicious TV’s new show, Vegan Mashup. The show will premiere this summer on public television stations nationwide. Vegan Mashup focuses on easily preparing tasty plant-based recipes and makes healthy eating fun ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Food, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior
The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are reporting in a new study. Although only low amounts of pesticides appeared in the fruit in the study, the scientists ... keep reading
Written by celsias this month, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior
To most people, the news will be meaningless. To gardeners, the new climate zone maps are a harsh reminder of just how much earth’s climate has changed in a mere two decades. First published in 1927, as part of Alfred Rehder’s book, “Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts this month, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior
Protecting the land of highest priority for biodiversity conservation also delivers significant, life-sustaining services and income to the world’s most impoverished people, according to a new study published this month in the journal, BioScience. Yet conservation efforts and poverty alleviation efforts are both at risk of failing, since this ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Lifestyle & Behavior
Frisch vom Dach is building an aquaponic farm on the roof of an old malthouse in Berlin that will produce both vegetables and fish. German company Frisch vom Dach is building an aquaponic farm on the roof of an old malthouse in Berlin that will produce both vegetables and fish ... keep reading
Written by Springwise last month, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior
Global use of hydropower increased more than 5 percent between 2009 and 2010, according to new research published by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online publication. Hydropower use reached a record 3,427 terawatt-hours, or about 16.1 percent of global electricity consumption, by the end of 2010 ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Industry & Business, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
Kristin Shrader-Frechette of the University of Notre Dame is rigorous in the presentation of her argument in What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power. In recent times a number of leading environmentalists have concluded nuclear power has to be employed to enable the transition away ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading
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