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Being careful of our eating habits is perhaps one of the biggest commitments we can make towards caring for our environment, and choosing ethically produced food gives us, as consumers, more control over how our food is grown, harvested, and prepared. Organic food is a rapidly growing market as more and more people are choosing to eat organic for health reasons, or because they have concerns about our impact upon the environment and the spread of unethical farming practices. Organic farming encourages biodiversity on and around farmland – which is particularly important for those species threatened by modern farming methods – and does not rely upon pesticides which might leach into nearby watercourses
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Beyond Veggie Burgers: Organic Vegan Barbecue Ideas
Climate change is not one among many issues, it is THE crisis, the greatest threat on Earth. If you have kids, you know Raffi. But Raffi is much more than a singer, songwriter, and performer. He is a children’s champion and ecology advocate, founder and chair of the Centre for Child Honouring , the name of his powerful, integrated philosophy. This essay, by Raffi, is reposted in full by permission followed by his song on global warming. Are we tweeting while Earth burns
With design costs, build costs, land acquisition, and everything else, homes are expensive. Add a layer to that, that homes be sustainable, or somewhat “ green, ” and they get more expensive. Yet folks want these homes to be cut-rate affordable. It’s tough to do and a new modern home in Columbia, South Carolina, perhaps gives us an idea of what an affordable, light green home could look like. This single-family home is located at 1519 Cleveland Street in North Columbia’s College Place neighborhood. It has 1,120 square feet with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an open living, dining, and kitchen space. Green features include spray foam insulation, recycled low-VOC paint, a green screen/trellis entry, and a pervious driveway. To keep things affordable, 1519 Cleveland has IKEA kitchen cabinets, exposed air ducts, polished concrete floors, and a stacked washer and dryer
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Small, Green, Affordable: 1519 Cleveland
By Tenzicut After Steve sent his article to me on his Seed Report this morning, it was right on the heels of finally updating my personal seed list for my own garden until 3 am this morning. I have saved seed for many reasons for many years now. My love for seed starting began in the late 1970′s when I was still a child, helping my father collect them out of his quarter acre garden. Although dad is gone now, I still raise certain varieties because they were dear to him, although I have favorites of my own. It links me to him still. I guess I started saving seeds more hardcore since 1996 and it has become an obsession since then. After I learned about the plight of our heritage seeds and how we are losing them at a rate of 10,000 a year, lost forever… is when I got more into the conservation part of things
Perhaps it’s the term “hacker.” To anyone who has been the unwitting victim of a malicious virus that has wiped out their information, used their address book to spread its poison code to friends and family, or sent their financial institution into panic, a hacker conjures the image of someone who spends their time dreaming up programs
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Does Corporate America Need More Hackers?
