Sustainable Settings: Learning From The Land
Post Independent
May 3rd, 2012
Sustainable Settings, an entrepreneurial nonprofit, sells produce at the Aspen Farmers Market and raw milk from its new, solar-powered dairy to people who invest as shareholders in the Guernsey herd.
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Visual News
January 2nd, 2012
Amidst the towering skyscrapers and busting New York City traffic is a mobile, 15,000 square foot urban farm, called Riverpark Farm.
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Yes! Magazine 
November 30th, 2011
In West Africa, women’s resistance to the new Green Revolution shows that the question of agricultural sustainability is also a question of equality.
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San Diego.com
November 24th, 2011
When Manuel Jimenez first set eyes on the land below a levee, thick with brush and weeds, the one-time field worker envisioned a place where youngsters could escape the temptations of gang life and learn about the Central Valley’s most vital industry. But, like many places in California’s farming belt, this Tulare County town of [...]
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Rare Conservation
November 8th, 2011
Ecuador is a country of geological and geographic contrasts. From the offshore islands of the Galapagos (where Rare has a campaign) to the Amazon rainforests; from the Pacific to the towering Andes, it is also a country made up of great human and biological diversity.
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Good Generation
April 5th, 2012
Good Profiles feature members of our Good Generation who are either out there in the field doing interesting work or still in the trenches of schools and institutions waiting to make their mark on the world.
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Permaculture BC
November 30th, 2011
Busting up through the pavement like asparagus, over 80 people came out to listen and ask questions of Curtis Stone, a Kelowna urban SPIN farming.
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YouTube
November 25th, 2011
Jon Danzig and his friends (John Clark, Dave Belden and others) imported to the UK 2.5 tonnes of instant coffee from Tanzania, East Africa and launched “Campaign Coffee”.
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Positive News
November 10th, 2011
DJ and hip-hop teacher KMT is using music and sustainable living to unite young people.
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COFED
October 24th, 2011
It was a clear and beautiful Santa Barbara Sunday when I was first contacted by three young women in Colorado who wanted to start a food co-op. I’m always excited to meet people with a passion for food and cooperatives. I had no idea what these young women would accomplish in a few short months.
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