ethicurean.com - 11/25/2008
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As the problems of industrial meat production — CAFOs , excessive waste and pollution, worker safety , and the overuse of antibiotics, among many others — become more evident and more dangerous to public health, consumers are turning in greater numbers to local and/or organic meats and ...
Grass For Your Home or Office Desk
inhabitat.com 5/17/2009 —
Is your desk drab or boring? Do you need a little extra feng-shui in your home or your office? Why not try a grass square to brighten up your desk and give it a little something extra. These grass squares were designed at the Shenkar College of ...
Clementine Box Re-used To Grow Lush Green Grass Or Wheat-grass
funinthemaking.net 11/17/2008 — grassnclemboxo.jpg Wheat-grass growing in Clementine box. This re-purposed Clementine box doubles as an attractive green focal point. It looks great around the house: kitchen, dinning room, office - anywhere you want to be reminded of spring. I love ...
The Biodegradable Grass Cell Phone
inhabitat.com 1/8/2009 —
Hay may be for horses, but it makes a pretty great mobile phone material as well. Appearing for all the world like a brick of sod outfitted with a keypad, Je-Hyun Kim’s Natural Year Phone concept carefully considers the life cycle of ...
Small-Scale Grain Raising: Gene Logsdon: Books
amazon.com 2/4/2009 — Logsdon provides much practical information about how to raise a few square yards for grain to several acres. He explains how he raises each different type of grain (oats, wheat, corn, soybeans ect.), controls weeds, and problems associated with each ...
Grass hits the roof in Leeds
guardian.co.uk 11/7/2008 — The red ranks of terrace houses in one of Britain's biggest cities have been interrupted by a splash of green, in Britain's first council-funded "green roof". Slipper orchids and dwarf cornflowers have bloomed on the miniature meadow which now ...
Europe’s Grass-Lined Green Railways = Good Urban Design
inhabitat.com 1/29/2009 —
Although it’s certainly not a new idea to combine landscaping with public transportation , we love the sight of these European trams gliding along on beds of grass . From Barcelona to the Czech Republic, Frankfurt, St-Etienne and Strasbourg, ...
Farmer Gene Logsdon on the promise of a home ‘pancake patch’
grist.org 9/15/2009 — by Makenna Goodman Gene Logsdon on his farm.Gene Logsdon is one of the clearest and most original voices of rural America. He’s a farmer in Ohio not far from his boyhood home, and is a writer to boot; he’s published more than two dozen ...
Take the Time to Walk Barefoot in the Grass
ecochildsplay.com 7/25/2009 — Your kids may do this all the time but do you ever kick off your shoes and run barefoot through the grass?
I am very anti-shoe (yes, I am a barefoot hippie-neo-hippie actually, I am very into hygiene).
Being outside without shoes can feel to some like going about naked. There are people ...
Well worth the wheat: Gene Logsdon’s “Small-Scale Grain Raising”
ethicurean.com 2/6/2009 — As the price of flour and other grain-based foods has risen, creative-minded people have begun to consider growing their own wheat, corn, rye, and other grains. Groovy Green noted last year that one bakery — the Hungry Ghost Bread company in ...
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