With the continuing growth in demand for fresh produce, Nebraska farmers are exploring ways to extend their growing season. Today, more farmers are using hoophouses, or high tunnels, according to Ryan Pekarek, who ownsPekarek’s Produce in Dwight and is president of the Nebraska Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association. High tunnels are similar to greenhouses, but much less expensive […]
Science City Stores Warm Air from Summer to Heat Buildings in Winter August 19-2013 Humans are pretty temperature-sensitive creatures, which means we use a ton of power every year through heating and air-conditioning systems. But imagine if there were a way to save the summer’s hot air and use it to heat buildings throughout the winter. Sounds like […]
King Arthur Flour Bakes Up Solar Powered EV Charging August 19-2013 It is a story only Vermont could produce. King Arthur Flour, known as a founding B-Corp entity and heavily involved in sustainability, recently teamed up with Green Mountain Power, a local electricity utility that makes use of clean energy, to place a solar-powered electric vehicle station at the […]
Self-Sufficient Earthship Community Planned For Malawi August 19-2013 Tired of toxic homes and rampant consumption, we’re getting creative about where and how we live. Ideas about how to build a home, the materials that should be used, and how much space is actually needed, are changing. Although this “return to the homestead” is most obvious […]
SPECIAL REPORT ON AGRICULTURE: REALIZING AFRICA’S POTENTIAL August 19-2013 With unprecedented interest in African agriculture, business and governments are moving towards harnessing the continent’s vast potential. What will be the game-changing innovations for African agriculture? How can financing for the sector be unlocked? With comment and insight from leading decision-makers in business, policy and development, and […]
Persephone Farm offers organic food alternatives August 19-2013 INDIANOLA — Organic farming anywhere can be unpredictable, so when the owners of Persephone Farm opened the family-owned business in Indianola, they made sure it could take whatever Northwest weather threw at them. The farm has more than 50 different crops, with different varieties of the same […]
Growing micro greens in a container August 19-2013 I have been going out and harvesting my little mini-greens for my salad, and I love how delicious they are at that size. And when you snip off the leaves, they just grow a new one and keep on producing. Tiny basil plants are awesome for this, […]
Gardening Can Help Beat Depression August 17-2013 Every year, some 230 million prescriptions for antidepressants are filled, making them one of the most-prescribed drugs in the United States. Despite this, the incidence of all forms of depression is now at 10 percent, according to 2012 statistics, and the number of Americans diagnosed with depression increases by about […]
Fast Food Burgers Only 7% Meat, The 8 Other ‘Ingredients’ Will Disgust You August 17-2013 Americans consume somewhere in the ballpark of 5 billion hamburgers a year. To keep up with this demand, just over 4100 cows are slaughtered every hour in the U.S. That’s a lot of dead cows! When 68 cows a minute are […]
India Declares Dolphins Non-Human Persons, Bans Holding Them in Captivity August 17-2013 Cetaceans should be regarded as non-human persons with their own rights and therefore it is morally unacceptable to keep them in captivity – this is the new ruling by the Government of India, which in a landmark decision has taken an important first […]
FDA Admits Factory Farmed Chicken Contains Cancerous Arsenic, Source of Arsenic is Shocking August 17-2013 After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal in high doses. But the […]
Smiling is Nature’s Stress Reducer, it can “Actually Influence Our Physical State” August 17-2013 Just grin and bear it! At some point, we have all probably heard or thought something like this when facing a tough situation. But is there any truth to this piece of advice? Feeling good usually makes us smile, but does it […]
Los Angeles Suspends Fines For Veggie Gardens Amid Food Crisis August 16-2013 The Los Angeles City Council gave its blessing Tuesday to neighborhood gardeners who want to plant vegetables on public parkways, voting to waive enforcement of a city law that makes the activity illegal. City law requires parkways — the area between a sidewalk […]
Modern Agriculture is Killing Humanity, Here is the Cure August 16-2013 The consensus in anthropology used to be that cities were possible because of agriculture, however this consensus is now shifting. Evidence has been found which indicates that cultures began to create idols out of certain people, deities, animals, etc. and started to construct monuments to […]
10 Reasons to Buy Organic August 16-2013 Organic foods and products are the fastest growing items in America’s grocery carts. Thirty million households, comprising 75 million people, are now buying organic foods, clothing, body care, supplements, pet food, and other products on a regular basis. Fifty-six percent of U.S. consumers say they prefer organic foods.
Vertical Farm Concept is a Green Gateway for Chicago August 16-2013 This towering eco high-rise offers a green gateway to the city of Chicago that includes a large vertical farm, mixed-use towers, and a residential tower all tied together by a series of sky bridges. Envisioned by a student at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the project […]
34 Medical Studies for the Skeptic Confirming that Cannabis Can Cure Cancer August 16-2013 The sometimes wild sounding claims about cannabis curing cancer are frequently dismissed as conspiracy talk or quackery. After all, if cannabis actually cured cancer, wouldn’t it be used in modern medicine? Wouldn’t doctors prescribe this to their patients? Wouldn’t cannabis be […]
Rolling out a new kind of farmers’ market A Kansas city program aimed at making fresh produce cheaper and more accessible has now launched a mobile market. The Beans and Greens mobile market is like a grocery store on wheels. “We can park this thing anywhere in Kansas City and serve people,” said Eugene Brown, […]
Top 5 Foods and Herbs To Control Cholesterol August 16-2013 Millions take statin drugs to help lower their cholesterol, making it one of the most popular classes of prescription drugs on the market today, but like most prescription medications, these drugs are often unnecessary. Whether your health is at the top of its game or not, […]
Sensitive Detection of PLRV in Potato Crop of Pakistan August 16-2013 Edible potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world’s most widely grown tuber crop ranking fourth in production in the world after rice, wheat and maize and fifth in acreage among the staple food crops grown for human consumption. The main advantage of potato crop […]