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A 50-Year Farm Bill By Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry 2009-01-06 14:53:14 NYTimes Op Ed Published: January 4, 2009
THE extraordinary rainstorms last June caused catastrophic soil erosion in the grain lands of Iowa, where there were gullies 200 feet wide. But even worse damage is done over the long term under normal rainfall — by the little rills and sheets of erosion on incompletely covered or denuded cropland, and by various degradations resulting from industrial pr Read more:Berry
, Jackson
NYT Best Ideas of 2008: Locavestors 2008-12-24 18:48:10 Locavestors
By AMY CORTESE
#l-ideas-2
Perhaps you’ve heard of locavores: people who eat only foods that have been produced within a 100-mile radius. Now some people — call them locavestors — are investing in much the same way. The idea is that, by investing in local businesses, rather than, say, a faceless conglomerate, investors can earn profits while supporting their communities. To help
No title 2008-12-19 05:13:07 This site, Organic Consumers Association, has a petition to stop Vilsack's confirmation as Ag Sec.
Composting 2008-12-17 10:00:34 This site has a pdf file of the Humanure Handbook.
Transition Towns movement: Premature Triumphalism? 2008-12-17 01:36:29 Premature Triumphalism
In last week’s post, I mentioned in passing that a presentation at the 5th Annual Peak Oil and Community Solutions Conference at the beginning of the month had left me with hard questions about the Transition Town movement
. A good fraction of the comments I received in response to that post centered on that one brief reference. This probably shouldn’t have surprised me; Read more:Premature
, Towns
Working Groups 2008-12-15 12:20:02 An ongoing attempt to try to encapsulate all potential working groups discussion areas with minimal overlap and not too many categories...
Working Groups
1. FOOD - local food production, food security, CSA's, Permaculture, organic, & biodynamic growing, building healthy soils, food preservation & storage, farming cooperatives, community kitchens, buying in bulk, grains, working animals
Michigan must pull the plug on coal 2008-12-15 11:47:25 Michigan must pull the plug on coal
BY ANNE WOIWODE and CYNDI ROPER • Detroit Free Press, December 14, 2008
For carbon dioxide-emitting coal plants, the writing is on the wall.
Coal plants are the No. 1 culprit behind the current climate crisis that is threatening the Great Lakes, the health of Michigan citizens and Michigan jobs.
The majority of Americans -- Republicans, Democrats and indepe Read more:Michigan
The Carbon Atlas 2008-12-10 10:41:05 This is a very interesting map to explore. When you click on a country it will show the tons of CO2 per person so you can compare countries on that basis.
Climate change: The carbon atlas
Christine Oliver, The Guardian, Dec 9, 2008
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New figures published today confirm that China has overtaken the US as the largest emitter of CO2. This interactive emissions map shows how the rest Read more:Atlas
, Carbon
A peak into the future 2008-12-09 13:48:58 Described as 'a social experiment on a massive scale', the Transition Town movement offers positive ideas for low-carbon living
* Sarah Lewis
* The Guardian, Wednesday September 10 2008
When Waterstone's recently asked 150 MPs about their favourite summer reads, number five on the list was a book from an environment group that only two years ago almost no one had heard of. But in that time, the
Free Home Energy Audits for Ann Arbor Residents! 2008-12-08 13:48:23 Hey Everyone,
This is copied directly from the Enhouse website. The audits are on a first come first serve basis, and I don't know how many are left, but I assume they have not maxed out yet. Please note they do say it can take up to 35 business days to get back to you, and they are intended for folks that plan on implementing at least one of the reccomendations in your homes final energy report. Read more:Energy
, Free Home
Something hopeful... Obama and Community Supported Agriculture 2008-12-04 09:06:08 Obama and Community Supported Agriculture
Categories: Food & Health, Politics & Social Justice
Posted on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 11:46 am by dpacheco
from: Chelsea Green
It’s nice to have an administration that understands the importance of the family farm. Barack Obama’s plan for rural America will, wisely, place small family and organic farms above big agribusiness. Obama Read more:Obama
Most US organizations not adapting to climate change 2008-12-02 09:44:16 Contact: David DeFusco
david.defusco@yale.edu
203-436-4842
Yale University
Most US organizations not adapting to climate change
New Haven, Conn.—Organizations in the United States that are at the highest risk of sustaining damage from climate change are not adapting enough to the dangers posed by rising temperatures, according to a Yale report.
"Despite a half century of climate change that h
The Wall Street Journal: In a World Short Of Oil, Provisions Must Be Made 2008-12-01 17:40:51 JANUARY 26, 2008
Mr. Wissner of Middleville Stocks Up on Rice, Gold; No Faith in a 'Techno Fix'By NEIL KING JR.Article
Comments more in US »
MIDDLEVILLE, Mich. -- It was around midnight one evening in November when Aaron Wissner shot up in bed, jolted awake by a fear: He wasn't fully ready for the day when the world starts running low on oil.
Yes, he had tripled the size of the garden in front Read more:Journal
, Short
, Street
, Street Journal
, World
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation. 2008-11-30 16:54:19 One Shot Left
Posted November 25, 2008
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 25th November 2008
George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth
city chickens 2008-11-30 16:49:53 The craze for urban poultry farming.
by Jessica Bennett
NEWSWEEK (see original here)
For Brooklyn real-estate agent Maria Mackin, the obsession started five years ago, on a trip to Pennsylvania Amish country. She, her husband and three children—now 17, 13 and 11—sat down for brunch at a local bed-and-breakfast, and suddenly the chef realized she'd run out of eggs. "She said, 'Oh goodness! I'l
ADVERTISE WITH BADGES, BANNERS, & VIDEO 2008-11-20 01:42:00 On the Main page you will see a small badge, GET MORE BADGES. You can create advertising banners and videos to place on your websites or in your emails, or give to friends.
ADD APPLICATIONS in MY PAGE: USEFUL TOOLS 2008-11-19 23:25:32 SEARCH MAP, TEXT BOX and RSS might be 3 useful utility programs you can add to MY PAGE for your personal use. All the others seem useless. On my old site there is where you will find about 50 RSS to pick from. This was done about 3 years ago, so some are defunct, and some are about Katrina. The RSS personal feeder will mount five if these if you want to build a good news feed for yourselves. If y
Links for research, networking, or coalition building 2008-11-19 04:00:07 I tried to make sure they were mostly MICHIGAN results. The Google CUSTOM SEARCH has been designed to help narrow your searches down to only progressive links related to our work, not perfect, but it will be a lot better than just using google. There are millions of groups out their doing transition work. The key will be to building stronger coalition
s on regional levels, and many of those could b Read more:networking
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