onearth.org - 3/4/2009
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Will Winter and Todd Churchill have a plan. It's simple, it's workable, and if enough people do it, it will shrink our carbon footprint, expand biodiversity and wildlife habitat, promote human health, humanize farming, control rampant flooding, radically decrease the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and-for those of us who still eat the stuff-produce a first-class, guilt-free steak. Their plan: let cows eat grass. The two men share a background in conventional farming. Winter came of age ...
itsgettinghotinhere.org - 3/9/2009
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At 8:30 this morning Alliant Energy, a subsidiary
of Interstate Power and Light, announced its plans to...
abandon construction of a 649 MW coal plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. The decision comes only 6 days after the Iowa Department of Natural ...
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Another One Bites The Dust: Coal Victory in Iowa!
features.csmonitor.com - 2/27/2009
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Women own nearly half of Iowa’s farmland. But
they find they have a common problem: The men...
they hire to farm their land often don’t treat it with the tender care they expect – and often won’t listen when they complain about it. Women from three ...
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Women lead a farming revolution in Iowa
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... Let Them Eat Grass – A revolutionary idea gaining ground in America’s heartland may change the way we eat and grow our food: farmers can reap greater profits, control rampant flooding, humanize farming, and shrink their carbon footprint, just by letting cows eat grass. In a visit to farms in the region, author Richard Manning examines the environmental, financial, culinary and health benefits of going back to basics and converting prime corn land into permanent pasture for grass-fed beef. ...
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