features.csmonitor.com - 3/13/2009
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Some scientists say an ice age was prevented thousands of years ago by the dawn of human agriculture – deforestation and farming released enough greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to prevent another global cool down, the theory goes.
Now, millennia later, researchers hope new farming ...
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!
boston.com - 3/15/2009
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Boston Globe: PRESIDENT OBAMA has said science on
his watch will not be "distorted or concealed to...
serve a political agenda." But when it comes to the political agenda of agribusiness, his own Cabinet, and his party, are letting science down ...
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Food & agriculture - March 14
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... other gems like permaculture design and passive solar building. The book begins with a look at historic precedents for gardening systems that aim to grow the most amount of food on the least possible ground. The Chinese were good at it, and so were the Mayans, the Greeks and the French, developing systems that used deep raised beds, lots of compost and also tight plantings, where plants are planted as close as possible together in triangles, like the 5 on a dice. (11 March 2009) New way to farm boosts climate, too Jared Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor ‘Organic no-till’ ...
Sustainable Gardening Newsletter March 2009
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... In the News Exciting research from Rodale - how no-till agriculture can combat global warming. Next, what we gardeners know, that horticulture ALSO combats climate change, accor ding to an article in the U.K.-based publication ...
Sustainability News Headlines - 3/17/2009
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News of Sustainability Benefiting People Today Brought to you by Conservation Value Institute Jargon Watch: EcoPatriotism and Stimulating Your Local Economy Treehugger, 3/17 Cap and Trade By Numbers Living On Earth, 3/17 New Way to Farm Boosts Climate, Too CS Monitor, 3/17 Saving Every Last Drop of Water GreenBiz, 3/17 The U.S. Electricity Grid Needs to Evolve and Requires Fresh Standards of Communication Nature, 3/17 ...
4 Farming Methods That Go Beyond Organic
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... he mentioned the important detail that may farmers that practice this method apply herbicides to control weeds that grow along with the plants. Luckily for us, the good folks at the Rodale Institute have developed an organic system of no-till farming. Instead of using herbicides the institute has developed a piece of equipment called a "roller-crimper" that rolls down an over-wintering cover crop and leaves the land ready for planting. The Christian Science Monitor recently published the following claim from Rodale Research Director Paul Hepperly: If organic no-till ...
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