Farms News
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Scotland bids on floating wind farm
Statoil, Norway’s largest energy company, plans to build a demonstration site to test its “floating” offshore wind turbines. This move is based upon the success… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (14 days ago) 8 comments- Companies
- Statoil
- Definitions
- Renewable energy, Renewable, Technology, Wind turbine, testing, Alternative energy
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Feature How to join the Canvolution
Once again, we are living in a great age for canning. Not since the "Of Course I Can!" poster days of World War II has there been such a broad nationwide campaign in favor of… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (25 days ago) 15 comments -
From Urban Decay to Farming Heyday
On the fringes of what was once touted as the "Paris of the West," "Motor City" and "Motown," Detroit's outlying areas have long suffered from profound vacancy issues. … | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (30 days ago) 6 comments- Definitions
- Victory Garden, Conservation, Biodiversity, Organic
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The virtues of "Slow Money"
We live in such interesting times. It is no secret that the financial wave of fast money, is unsustainable over the long haul. With financial "bubbles" bursting all around us, it's… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (99 days ago) 11 comments- Definitions
- Sustainable, Conservation
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Feature How to green our mindset
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." John Muir "I still find the day too short for… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (134 days ago) 6 comments- Definitions
- Conservation, Cruelty-free, Victory Garden
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Snuggle up in responsible wool
Still chilly in your neck of the woods? We just learned about a new company offering super-soft woolies that'll warm the cockles of your sustainable heart. Ramblers Way Farm,… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (157 days ago) 0 comments- Companies
- Tom's of Maine
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- Organic, Sustainable, Ecosystem, Composting, Solar power, Geothermal power, Renewable energy, Biofuel, Environmental footprint
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Feature How to foster green biodiversity
In 1894 John Muir wrote: "When California was wild, it was one sweet bee-garden throughout its entire length, north and south, and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (181 days ago) 4 comments -
Feature Can Big Beef censor the sustainable truth?
Big Beef doesn't like it when smart people tell the raw truth about the science behind their meat. In fact, a very deep-pocketed cattle rancher in California, where “happy… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (287 days ago) 0 comments- People
- Michael Pollan
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- Vegetarian, Vegan, Factory farmed, Factory farm, Sustainable, Locavore
- Web News
- alternet.org (73 comments)
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Feature How to increase consumer responsibility
According to Time author Brian Walsh, more than simply a case of penny-wise/pound foolish, the dangerous game of cheap food production is costing us--big time--both morally and… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (378 days ago) 4 comments -
Feature How to green your shopping
"For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged.… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (389 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Animal testing, Carbon footprint, Carbon offset, Cruelty-free, Eco-friendly, Energy Star, Fair trade, Food, Locavore, Organic, Recycling
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