Image credit: Peak Moment TV From backyard permaculture to urban homesteads , we see plenty of people ripping up lawns and trying to grow more food for themselves and their families. But sometimes, it’s more about what you can do for others than what you can do for yourself. We’ve already seen what happens when neighbors r… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Parking Strip Becomes Garden with Free Produce for Neighbors (Video)
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Photo credit: Ross Tucknott / Creative Commons It’s not often that a book inspires you to go out and shovel steaming piles of horse poop on a cold November afternoon. But that’s exactly what happened to me after reading Gene Logsdon’s Holy Shit , and I mean it as a resounding compliment to the author. I should note, of course, that it doesn’t take much to get me thinking, and writing, about poop, pee, co… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Finally, A Practical Guide to Dealing With…Manure (Book Review)
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Image credit: Lisamarie Babik , used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about Tom Philpott’s assertion that locavores can be snobby , I was roundly derided by commenters who chided me for contributing to a false stereotype. While I would maintain that there is a problem with snobbery and judgmentalism in the sustainable food movement, and environmentalism in general, I must also concede that these commenters ma… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Who Are the Real Eco-Snobs? Non-Greens Judge Too
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Image credit: Natalie Maynor , used under Creative Commons license. I’ve written before about the dangers of pious eco-religion and green living as passive aggressive preaching , and I’ve asked whether it is even possible to preach green without being pr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Slow Food USA Organic eggs may have dodged the recent salmonella recall , and our readers may now be equipped with information on what salmonella is and how they can avoid getting sick . Nevertheless, we’re not out of the woods yet. In fact, with our food systems remaining just as centralized, intensive, and reliant on antibiotics as they ever where, it … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Fresh the Movie Leonora already got pretty excited about Fresh—a documentary about our broken food system , and the folks trying to fix it. But it’s not just the movie itself that’s exciting—the film makers are also putting their money where their mouth is, offering 1% of 2010 revenue to a nonprofit working for sustainable food. They just need your help to figure out who to give it to…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Vote Now for Fresh 1% Grant for Sustainable Food
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Image credit: Milpa Films Back in 2008, the UK’s Chief Scientist warned that the food crisis would hit us long before climate change , and the UN has just warned that food prices could rise 45% in the coming decade . Our food system is incredibly vulnerable to disruption from fuel shortages or price hikes, strikes, natural disasters, wars or any number of other problems. But how did it get this … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Incredible Vulnerability of Our Food System, and What Can be Done About It (Video)
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Image credit: GenBug (Creative Commons) With all the evidence of human-induced global warming , you’d think it would be good news that some of our activities, like releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly illustrated by a new study showing the regional cooling effects of mass irri… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Irrigation May Reduce Climate Change. Not Good News.
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Image credit: SeedLiving Most TreeHuggers will tell you that without access to decent, viable seed, and without a system for allowing that seed to develop and adapt, the long-term sustainability of our food system is nigh-on impossible. Yet while some corporations are busy filing patents over soybeans , there are activists, farmers and gardeners around the world who are busy perpetuating and evolving what might be the world’s oldest open-source project—seed swapping. From
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Can Seed Swapping Flourish Online?
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Image credit: Conservative Home I’ve always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose anti-authoritarian, DIY streak puts them in direct conflict with any “big government” solutions from the traditional left. This very debate is flourishing right now over in the UK, with the
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Can Big Society Save the Planet, and Squash Big Government Too?
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