If you’re an American reader, you may well be asking “yerba what-tay?” That’s understandable: Elephant Journal described this caffeinated drink as “the soccer (football) of the natural products world—popular and [ … ]
Tag: Sustainability
Can an Agriculture Conference not include Small Farmer Concerns?
With all of the recent attention given to the environmental and social impacts of large-scale agriculture, and the benefits of organic and natural foods (yep… a link to sustainablog store), [ … ]
Green Books Campaign: From Seed to Table
Editor’s note: This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally-friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers [ … ]
Ray Anderson: A Revealing Chat with a Radical Industrialist
Ray Anderson‘s epiphany about his own role in environmental destruction after reading Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce has taken on mythic status in the fifteen years since. The “spear [ … ]
Exciting Sustainability Activity in the Produce Industry
[social_buttons] I just got back from three days at one of my favorite ag industry meetings: The Produce Marketing Association “Fresh Summit.” To those in the industry this is just [ … ]
Musings of A Suburban Farmer on Harvest Day
[social_buttons] Today I picked the grapes from my vineyard. I got 366 usable pounds from my 25 vines even though I lost at least 100 pounds to birds that somehow [ … ]
Caretakers of Sustainability: Journey Inn
If life’s a journey, Journey Inn — an eco-inn and retreat that’s designed with nature completely in mind, spirit and body – serves as a guide. Located in Maiden Rock, [ … ]
What Does an Agricultural Scientist Worry About in the Food Supply (Part 1)
[social_buttons] Lots of people in America are worried about their food – usually not about having enough food, but mostly about things that might be in their food that could [ … ]
Financial Sustainability: The Best Things in Life are Free
Millions of Americans are declaring financial sustainability, even if they don’t exactly call it that. After all, we can’t borrow our way out of debt. We’re paying down or paying [ … ]
Raising an Ethical Issue in the Farming Technology Debate
[social_buttons] The Image above is corn growing in Zimbabwe. There was a scholarly article published late last year by Dr. Robert Paarlberg entitled “The Ethics of Modern Agriculture.” I would encourage [ … ]
Book Review: LESS IS MORE (Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet)
As millions of Americans are finding themselves waking up with less disposable income, fewer job prospects, less income thanks for forced furloughs or lost value in their 401(k)s, some are [ … ]
The Science of Sustainability: Green Earth Agri Card Keys made from Corn
Anyone who travels will eventually find themselves returning home with a hotel card key (or two), despite our well-intentioned interest to remember to leave it in the room or drop [ … ]
Five Good Reasons to Eat Non-Local Food (Part 2 of 2)
[social_buttons] In part one of this blog I acknowledged that I enjoy local food as a special treat in my diet but described three reasons that the true “locovore” concept [ … ]