published November 12, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Fishy Farm Aquaponics From the urban aquaponics of Growing Power to planned industrial-scale fish and plant farming operations , there is no shortage of people trying to make aquaponics—or the symbiotic combination of hydroponics and aquaculture—work. Yet while there are a few ready-to-use aquaponics kits on the marke... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published November 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Broadacre City. Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950-1955. [Image via urbannebula.nl.] The politics and planning of our food system is a big topic these days, with urban farming being all the rage. In Design Observer, Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landcape Architecture at Harvard, looks back at earlier approaches to merging agriculture and urbanity, at the way that urban ...
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published November 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Flickr via Steven Damron For all their environmental woes, most coal mines in the U.S. at least capture the methane released when the coal is mined. It can then be used for fuel, which in terms of greenhouse gas emissions is tons (ha) better than simply releasing it freely into the atmosphere. However, 12 mines do not capture ...
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published November 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Permaculture TV Back in 2006 the Dervaes' family's Path to Freedom urban homestead project hit the airwaves of TreeHugger TV. Since then we've seen a proliferation of urban farm tours , awesome small-scale permaculture projects ,
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Growing 6000lbs of Food on 1/10th of an Acre (Video)
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published November 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo credit: FIT Fair Trade. Local. Vegan. Organic. We've all heard these buzz words when it comes to the food in our grocery stores and on our plates. But when it comes to the blossoming sustainable fashion movement , there are so many catch phrases that shopping with a conscience can be downright daunting--not to mention the controversy surrounding ...
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published November 1, 2010 and has No Comments
This guest post was written by Peter Glatzer, film producer and founder of SHFT.com. When Adrian Grenier and I founded SHFT.COM we made a deliberate choice to be apolitical. Our mission was to position sustainable ideas and designs and ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published October 29, 2010 and has No Comments
In wealthier NYC neighborhoods, bodegas often stock a wide range of healthy produce, but in poorer areas your options are generally limited to four food groups: Sugary, highly processed, alcohol and tobacco. Photo: Paul Lowry / Creative Commons . The phenomenon of healthy food deserts existing in America's poor communities is well documented. In New York City, Grow... Read ...
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published October 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo credit Walt_Dabney via flickr and a Creative Commons license. In the U.K. they call them crisps, not potato chips. And perhaps because U.S. consumers made such as incredible fuss over SunChips crisps in (noisy) biodegradable bags , PepsiCo, owner of Frito-Lay and the British brand Walkers, said Walkers could be first to get
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published October 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo credit Walt_Dabney via flickr and a Creative Commons license. In the U.K. they call them crisps, not potato chips. And perhaps because U.S. consumers made such as incredible fuss over SunChips crisps in (noisy) biodegradable bags , PepsiCo, owner of Frito-Lay and the British brand Walkers, said Walkers could be first to get
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published October 13, 2010 and has No Comments
The commenters in our posts following the trial and introduction of the Double Down pointed out that a) it's a free country and b) at 550 calories there are a lot worse things out there. (The Washington Post claimed "it's almost health food" ) Now it is coming to Canada, somehow getting past the diligent Canadian Border Secu... Read ...
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