Got a 10-gallon aquarium laying around in the basement or garage? The detritus of a failed attempt at adding tropical fish to the home decor? Austin, Texas college sophomore Jack [ … ]
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Leftovers Piling Up in the Fridge? 10 Ways to Insure They Get Eaten
Reduce food waste in your kitchen by safely reusing your leftovers instead of tossing them out! Food waste is a terribly problem worldwide. As we struggle to feed an exploding world population, wealthy nations that have an abundance throw about 1/3…
Veganism: A Fad? Or the Future of Food? [Infographic]
While we haven’t done as much on veganism lately as we once did when Justin was submitting posts regularly, we’re still mindful of the impacts of the traditional animal-based diet [ … ]
Forage the Urban Bounty: 11 Crowdsourced Maps of Edible Plants
The art of foraging goes back to our hunter-gatherer days, but most of us don’t spend much time any more walking the neighborhood looking for edible weeds and fruit trees. [ … ]
Ich Bin Ein Gardener: Berlin’s Urban Gardens
Tomatoes, veggies and herbs are sprouting from Berlin parks, a shopping mall rooftop and even a former airfield in community gardens that pioneer farmers say add green spice to urban life.
Coconut Oil: A Multi-Purpose Super Food (Though Not Everyone’s Convinced)
Writer’s Note: Please check with your healthcare provider before consuming coconut oil to ensure it’s safe for you. We are almost to the end of January; how are you doing [ … ]
10 Things to Know About Food on World Food Day
Today is World Food Day. It offers the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.
Hydroponic Gardening Made Easy: Sustainable Microfarms’ Automated Controller System
Sustainable Microfarms is a socially-focused startup developing products for making food production more efficient. They’re raising funds to launch their first product, which could make even the most chemistry-phobic of us consider trying out hydroponics.
Ziploc’s Compostable Plastic Bags: Great if You’ve Got Commercial Composting Available
Compostable plastics provide no environmental benefit unless you’ve got a nearby commercial composting facility that accepts such materials. If you do, though, SC Johnson is trying out a new product that can help you green up your food storage practices: compostable Ziploc plastic bags.
Another Small Aquaponics System for the Not So Handy: The Blue Green Box
Want to give home aquaponics a try, but not interested in trying to piece together a do-it-yourself system? The Blue Green Box is plug-n-play, and designed to work with a standard 10 gallon aquarium.
Why Vegan? Because Every Death Is a Tragedy
Despite the big numbers, the awfulness of statistics of farmed and slaughtered animals is a matter of flesh and blood—an inescapable onslaught of pain, suffering, and thoughtlessness. The statistics become terrible every single day, whether we are standing in the midst of a slaughterhouse, or walking down a grocery store aisle, or watching a fast-food commercial on television.
World Population Day: Let’s Celebrate?
On World Population Day, Population Connection president John Seager offers ideas on how we can turn this event from a day meant to raise concern to one for celebration.
Harvesting Justice 19: “The Revolution is Going to be Fought With The Hoe”- Agriculture and Environment in New Mexico
Miguel Santistevan and his partner Margarita García are helping youth reclaim knowledge about traditions behind lands and waters. Sol Feliz Farm, Miguel’s grandfather’s house east of Taos, is an acre of spiral gardens, rock gardens, and straight rows. The farm’s Agriculture Implementation Research and Education (AIRE) project is capturing the imagination of an impassioned group of youth in northern New Mexico.