Estimates of the cost of production for oil production form various locations Image Credit: Oil Drum Whenever we speak of Peak Oil, the optimists point out that the technology for finding replacements will turn up as the prices rise; look at what has happened with the oil sands and with shale gas. But as this graph shows, each alternative just gets more expensive. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Graph of the Day: The Cost of Production Of Oil
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Image: Screenshot via HSUS Despite what seems like increased media attention on some of the cruelty and environmental abuses at factory farms over the last year, the worst practices continue unchecked. The latest exposé comes from a factory farm owned by a subsidiary of the world’s largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods. Through an undercover investigation in Virginia, the Humane Society of the U.S. caught horrific treatment of female pigs and piglets on video…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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On Factory Farms: Smithfield Foods Exposed for (More) Cruelty
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Image credit: Anstiftung und Ertomis Emma has already shown us some beautiful edible container gardens , courtesy of our readers; we’ve seen a gorgeous urban orchard complete with a repurposed dumpster/ping pong table , not to mention an under-used train statio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Extreme Container Gardening – Prinzessinengartens in Berlin (Video)
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Image credit: Resilient Planet Yesterday I posted on ResilientCITY —the new project from the makers of the End of Suburbia. And earlier today I posted, from that same project, an interview with Rob Hopkins about the difference between sustainability and resilience , and why it matters. But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Urban Farming, Community Resilience and the Death of the Motor Industry in Detroit (Video)
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Image credit: Markarthu Christine has discussed the risks and benefits of raw milk before. And with Senate Bill 510 potentially putting raw milk in danger , and with armed police reportedly swooping on organic coops in Ohio , the battle over if and how food regulations designed for an industrial … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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DOA Confiscating Raw Milk in Minnesota (Video)
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Image credit: wolfpix , used under Creative Commons license. The puzzle of the red bees of Brooklyn may now be solved , but conclusive answers regarding the larger honeybee mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder remain elusive. Nevertheless, in my roundup post about the epic fight to save the bees , I noted that the British Beekeepers … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Beekeepers & Activists Demand EPA Remove Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths
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Image credit: Farming Futures Michael Eavis isn’t the only farmer building a massive solar roof on his cow shed . According to a new survey, more than 80% of UK farmers want to install solar on their roofs. And they want to do it by 2013…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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80% of UK Farmers Want Solar Roofs by 2013
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As you could probably guess, the darkest red is the highest density of factory farms, and is based on data from 2007 (the newest available). Above are all the different kinds of factory farms together; scroll down for individual farm types. All images: Factory Farm Map A couple days ago Rachel reported on how factory farms have grown 20% in size since just 2005 . That was based on data from
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A Picture is Worth: Factory Farms in US Mapped in Their Polluting, Graphic, Gory Detail
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Image credit: Sami Grover I was observing the heat rising from my compost heap this morning, the one inspired by my review of Gene Logsdon’s guide to managing manure , when I was struck by a particular insight—what I was actually witnessing was the cumulative body heat of billions upon billions of tiny little beasties. To anyone familiar with the composting process, that observation is pretty elementary. But it got me wondering—maybe we should stop thinking about composting as simply “recycling”, “waste … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Composting As Animal Husbandry – Moving Way Beyond Recycling
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Every so often there’s a really great sad-but-true-made-funny video that comes out, and this is a perfect one for today considering Thanksgiving is a day of feasting. This humorous but still sort of serious song is by Adam Cole, singing about CAFOs and the massive amounts of waste they crea… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"Watcha Gonna Do (with all that Poo)" Song Questions CAFO Waste With Humor
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