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Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World

PJ Star
April 27th, 2012

For the Brockman family, agriculture is a sustainable way of life grown on smaller acres than the typical mass producer of corn and soybeans. The family plants hundreds of vegetables, fruits and herbs on the kind of farm that, 15 to 20 years ago, was about as common to find as a local community college student rushing off to operate a farm.

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Coming Together For Environmental Restoration In Haiti

Other Worlds Yobo Member
April 25th, 2012

In honor of Earth Day, we run an interview with Yves-André Wainright, who discusses ways that poor governance and the role of foreign donors have contributed to the country’s environmental catastrophe. He also lays out a blueprint for what could turn the situation around, effectively mobilizing both government and the population to begin restoring the environment.

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A Former Chicago Meatpacking Plant Becomes a Self-Sustaining Vertical Farm

Good
April 24th, 2012

Had Willy Wonka had been fascinated by industrial ecology instead of cocoa beans, his factory may have looked something like The Plant, Chicago’s first entirely self-sustaining “vertical farm.”

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6 Reasons Organics Can Feed the World

Huffington Post
April 18th, 2012

Buying organic is a powerful change-making action, but it’s also a relatively easy one. You put the organic food in your cart, hand over the cash, and head home with a bag full of food you can feel good about. Defending your choice to support organic can sometimes be a little trickier.

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How Biking Benefits Everyone

Yes! Magazine Yobo Member
April 12th, 2012

Just because someone doesn’t bike, doesn’t mean they can’t benefit from cities and towns making biking a priority.

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Textile Recycling Added To Sustainability Festival In Amherst

Hampshire Gazette
April 26th, 2012

Even though people frequently use collection boxes to drop off used clothing for agencies that distribute and sell it, many of the items still end up in landfills and incinerators. The Recycling and Refuse Management Committee is trying to change that, and also help the Fisher Home Hospice Shop and the Amherst Survival Center’s free store, by sponsoring Amherst’s first textile collection at this year’s Sustainability Festival on April 21.

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Enhancing Indigenous Knowledge In Rice Terraces

Our World 2.0 Yobo Member
April 24th, 2012

Mountain rice terracing is practiced widely in parts of the Asia-Pacific. Rice terraces are deeply intertwined with indigenous cultures, traditional practices and the ecology of many mountainous areas.

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TheTreeGeek.com to Celebrate Online Grand Opening from Earth Day through Arbor Day

Virtual Strategy
April 23rd, 2012

In the hope it will lead to healthier trees and a better planet, the certified arborists and certifiable “tree geeks” who are the producers of a new tree care site, TheTreeGeek.com, have announced they are celebrating their new site’s official launch with a week-long grand opening event from Earth Day, Sunday April 22nd, to Saturday, April 28th – the day after Arbor Day.

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Wine Goes Green

The Solutions Journal Yobo Member
April 17th, 2012

One of the bumper stickers above my desk says “Nature makes a drought; man makes a shortage.” We may not be able to do anything about drought, but we can do something to manage the resulting scarcity.

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Zimbabwe: Public Sector Has a Role in Environmental Sustainability

All Africa
April 9th, 2012

Over the past years, practical environmental sustainability response has been driven by the private sector. Active participation of both the private and the public sectors is crucial for national economic performance and welfare of the society.

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