[social_buttons] I love eating locally produced foods when I have the chance. I enjoyed having access to fully tree-ripe stone fruit when I lived in Davis, CA. Today I get [ … ]
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Earthworms: Do They Help or Hurt in Terms of Climate Change?
[social_buttons] Every once in a while I come across something in the scientific literature that really surprises me. Because there isn’t much oxygen in a worm gut, it creates the ideal conditions [ … ]
The Story of Sustainability
We’ve all heard of The Story of Stuff. But The Story of Sustainability? This past weekend, we had the pleasure of hosting Dennis Paige, founder of Swiftdeer-Paige, at Inn Serendipity [ … ]
Putting The “Carbon Footprint” of Farming in Perspective
[social_buttons] When thinking about “carbon footprints” it helps to have real numbers to put things in perspective. The EPA estimates that for the US, agriculture represents about 8% of total [ … ]
Followup to “An Inconvenient Truth about Composting”
[social_buttons] My earlier blog about greenhouse gas emissions from composting generated a lot of good discussion so I am writing to respond. Yes, composting is certainly better than some outcomes [ … ]
Would You Eat Cloned Fruit?
Cloned asian pears in New Zealand (photo Steve Savage) [social_buttons] OK, I’ll admit it. That question and the picture caption are a little bit manipulative because few people know that [ … ]
Eco-Libris: The state of green printing – an interview with Livio Ciciotti of Monroe Litho
This post was originally published on Eco-Libris blog on July 20. As part of our efforts to promote green printing, we continue to closely follow the printing industry, keep you [ … ]
7 Environmental Lessons from Living in Europe
I have lived in Europe on two occasions now — for five months in the Netherlands (two years ago) and for ten months in Poland (currently). I have been green-minded [ … ]
Towering on the Horizon: Wind Farms and Energy Independence
This past July 4th some friends and I headed south from our farm to visit the new EcoGrove I Wind Farm in Lena, Illinois, located in Stephenson County (in the [ … ]
Rethinking Food Production for a World of Eight Billion
by Lester R. Brown In April 2005, the World Food Programme and the Chinese government jointly announced that food aid shipments to China would stop at the end of the [ … ]
More Revelations about the Conflict Materials in your Cell Phone
Two weeks ago, we took a look at news from the Congo involving “conflict minerals”: armed groups have exploited the mining of materials such as tin, tungsten, gold, and tantalum, [ … ]
LA Community College System Heads for Energy Independence
By Leslie Berliant Originally published on June 17, 2009, at SolveClimate By the middle of next year, the nine campuses that make up the nation’s largest community college system plan [ … ]
Solutions to Global Warming: Reduce my Carbon Footprint by 70%?
Making a list of actions you can take to prevent global warming, or at least reduce your own carbon footprint? One item you may not have considered: move to (or [ … ]