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07-01-09 • Real News Tucson

Chris Haskell from Real News Tucson shows you how to build your own portable billboard!

Cocoa Shortage Crisis Looms

02-15-2011 • arclein

Today they treat him like a guru. An influential set of senior industry heavyweights flew to Ghana last week to hear him speak; the talk ended with an unprecedented agreement between industry competitors and the government to establish a working grou

Wisconsin DATCP: A rogue agency continues its assault on milk producers

02-15-11 • The PPJ Gazette

Unable to afford or procure competent counsel and lacking the ability to represent themselves left them with little choice, after all the state run education system falls grievously short of providing scholars of the necessary information to obtain d

Agroforestry Revolution in Sahel

02-11-2011 • arclein

SAHEL SOLUTION: Allowing trees to grow and shade fields has helped boost yields for farmers across the Sahel--outlined in blue on this map--a possible adaptation to climate change. Image: Map by Robert Simmon, based on GIMMS vegetation data and Wo

Available Global Marginal Land

02-04-2011 • arclein

Published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the study led by civil and environmental engineering professor Ximing Cai identified land around the globe available to produce grass crops for biofuels, with minimal impact on agricultur

Odor Free Piggery

02-03-2011 • arclein

Farmer Samson Delos Reyes walks through rows of kalo at David Wong's Waianae farm. Wong is using a system called natural farming developed in South Korea that has his kalo towering overhead and producing huge basil bushes. Farmer Samson Delos Rey

Starling Eradication

02-02-2011 • arclein

After hundreds of starlings were found dead in the Yankton Riverside Park, concerned citizens began to investigate. Before long, a USDA official called the local police and admitted they had poisoned the birds. "They say that they had poisoned the bi

Lab Produced Meat Closer

02-01-2011 • arclein

"There's yogurt, which is cultured yeast. You have wine production and beer production. These were not produced in laboratories. Society has accepted these products." If wine is produced in winery, beer in a brewery and bread in a bakery, where

Metabolic Structure and Ecological Civilization

01-28-2011 • arclein

Given the overwhelming harm being done to the world’s environment and to its people, it is essential today to consider how we might organize a truly ecological civilization—one that exists in harmony with natural systems—instead of trying to overwhel

USDA Vilsack Turns Unregulated GMO Alfalfa Loose on the Planet!

01-27-2011 • Farm Wars

Does this come as any surprise? Vilsack and his Monsanto buddies in the USDA have absolutely no intentions of regulating ANY genetically modified crop.

Strip Tillage Protocol Improves Fertilizer Yield Margin

01-27-2011 • arclein

U.S. agricultural practices create 58 percent of nitrous oxide in the world, which is the third most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Scientists believe nitrous oxide contributes to global warming about 300 times more than carbon dioxide

Insect Pizza

01-25-2011 • arclein

Dutch student Walinka van Tol inspects the worm protruding from a half-eaten chocolate praline she's holding, steels herself with a shrug, then pops it into her mouth. "Tasty ... kind of nutty!" the 20-year-old assures her companions clutching

Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA acknowledges a hand in one mass bird death

01-20-2011 • Christian Science Monitor

One in a series of mysterious mass bird deaths in the past month was the product of a USDA avicide program, which began as operation Bye Bye Blackbird in the 1960s.

Dioxin: It’s Whats For Breakfast (and Dinner and Lunch and Snack and Supper)

01-19-11 • The PPJ Gazette

In June the German food safety body (GFSB) was quite upset when it was discovered that Dioxin was served up to critters for consumption. Dioxin-contaminated eggs that entered the food chain in Germany and the Netherlands are not expected to cause

Hemp Seed Food Quality

01-18-2011 • arclein

The fact that the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) is used as food initially surprises and confuses most people. The public information system has largely restricted knowledge of hemp to its use for obtaining marijuana (Cannabis sativa), with its leaf co

Lignin Discovery Plumps Biomass

01-13-2011 • arclein

iofuel derived from crops such as switchgrass certainly holds promise, although some critics maintain that such crops use up too much agricultural land – land that could otherwise be used for growing food crops. A genetic discovery announced this Tue

Four Fish with Paul Greenberg

12-01-2010 • arclein

These were not giant bluefin, the 1,000-pound bullet trains so prized by the Japanese that they might sell for $100,000 or more. Those are almost gone now, as Paul Greenberg points out in his important and stimulating new book, “Four Fish,” which

Whey Proteins Suppress Cancers

01-04-2011 • arclein

Scientists have found that lactoferrin, a whey protein found in milk, could be an anticancer agent for breast cancer. Lactoferrin is an iron-binding protein that has been

Satellite Ground Water Measurement

12-29-2010 • arclein

Now, scientists at Stanford have found a way to cheaply and effectively monitor aquifer levels in agricultural regions using data from satellites that are already in orbit mapping the shape of Earth's surface with millimeter precision.

Bayer Squirms on Colony Collapse Disorder

12-29-2010 • arclein

To make a long story short, the EPA eventually accepted Bayer's study and granted clothianidin full registration in early 2010. But as I reported earlier, a leaked document (PDF) from November shows that two EPA scientists had reviewed that Bayer st

USDA GMO Policy

12-24-2010 • Farm Wars

Monsanto, Vilsack, and the USDA GMO juggernaut.

The Evolution of the Perfect American Christmas Tree

12-23-2010 • arclein

From Aldrich's perspective (and experience with customers), an ugly tree is one with gaps between its branches and a top that doesn't end in a perfect point. Usually, people arrive looking for symmetry and an absence of gaps.

Amazonian Deforestation Declines

12-18-2010 • arclein

Satellite imaging showed 6,451 square kilometers (2,491 square miles) of the jungle had been cut back between August 2009 and July 2010, an area equivalent to half the size of Lebanon or Jamaica.

Bamboo Culture Campaign

12-17-2010 • arclein

It helps support the livelihoods of more than 1.5 billion people, generates more than five billion dollars in annual trade and can grow up to one meter (3.25 feet) a day." "Bamboo housing has been around for centuries, but many people don't und

Carbon Nanotube Probe for Farm Assaying

12-11-2-1- • arclein

CleanGrow, based in Ireland, has developed a carbon nanotube-based sensor for monitoring the level of nutrients in crops. Changing the mix of nutrients can allow farmers to alter the color or maturity rate of fruit, flowers or vegetables. With intere

Hottest Chili Created

12-10-2010 • arclein

Yes, the Naga Viper, the latest claimant to the world's-hottest-pepper crown, outdistances its predecessor, the Bhut Jolokia, or "ghost chili," by more than 300,000 points on the famous Scoville scale of tongue-scorching chili hotness. Researcher

GMO oranges, China, and the loss of another piece of America’s agricultural base

12-09-2010 • Farm Wars

The genetic modification of corn and soy has succeeded in infiltrating nearly every processed food in America, with wheat and alfalfa soon to be next. Now it’s oranges. But why?

Mushroom Nutrition and Vitamin D

12-09-2010 • arclein

Leading vitamin D expert Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, of Boston University Medical Center, is encouraged by the committee’s increased recommendations because they’re a step in the right direction. “The report acknowledges that everyone should be getti

Monsanto’s Ongoing Corruption Incites Forbes’ Retraction…

12-03-2010 • Mercola.com

Monsanto has been paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides. Why? It's a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops. Environmental scientists warned about the problem

Irish Peat Modernization

12-02-2010 • arclein

“We started off by looking at new uses of peat and environmental uses of peat,” Henry added. “Now we’re talking about different types of renewable energy and clean tech products.” Henry estimated Bord na Mona is “a good halfway towards the transforma