Author: Daniela

  • Chciago Based Vertical Farm Produces Zero Waste

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    The Environmental Leader highlights the efforts of FarmedHere, a Chicagoland-based vertical farm, to produces zero organic waste by converting all of its organic waste into compost: The compost is then used in landscaping, horticulture and agriculture at other urban farms across Chicago. The urban farming company — FarmedHere says it’s the largest vertical farm in the US — partnered…

  • Organic cultivation: learning from the Enabavi example

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    By: M. J. Prabu Reposted from The Hindu: Is it possible to get a good yield without using chemical fertilizers? Will a shift to organic affect our food security? Can we manage insect pests without using pesticides? Will organic cultivation still be profitable for farmers? These are some of the often asked questions by farmers…

  • Soil Organisms: A Whole World Beneath Our Feet

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    Dirty Microbes by Molly Michelson explores the importance of soil organisms: Soil microbes include everything from bacteria to fungi, and article author Richard Conniff likes to call the lot collectively “the agribiome.” These microscopic life forms have the potential to solve many crises facing agriculture today—everything from climate change and drought to Salmonellaand other food-bourn illnesses, from the costs…

  • Fun Animation of the Solar System

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    If you needed a quick reminder of how small you are in the universe, just check out this video, created by designer Philipp Dettmer. It’ll give you the basic run-down of the solar system: how many moons each planet has, how far apart they are, etc., plus a few fun tidbits (Saturn would float if you…

  • Georgian Legend Dance

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    If you ever get one, run at the chance to see a Georgian dance troupe live.  This video can’t do justice to the absolutely electric energy in the theater when these guys dance.

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    Originally posted on Viewfound: Definitely the Photo of the Day. Psychedeli should have titled it A Man and His Goat. Viewfound View original post

  • Fighting To Learn In Pakistan

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    Originally posted on The Dish: by Jessie Roberts http://youtu.be/AjoG2ozdlS0 Rahul Bhattacharya profiles Humaira Bachal, a woman who has devoted her life to educating her community in Pakistan: What would become the Dream Model Street School began in 2001, with one blackboard, at home. Humaira taught ten friends of her age, seven of them girls. She…

  • The Group Effort

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    Originally posted on The Dish: by Jessie Roberts Bill McKibben thinks that climate science has risen to prominence “not despite its lack of clearly identifiable leaders … [but] because of it”: For environmentalists, we have a useful analogy close at hand. We’re struggling to replace a brittle, top-heavy energy system, where a few huge power…

  • Resnick Sustainability Institute’s “RESONATE” Awards Focus on Paradigm Shifting Work

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    The Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has announced that it has established an award that will honor cutting-edge work that addresses some of the hardest problems in energy and sustainability. The award winners will be announced in the Spring of 2014. The Resnick Sustainability Institute’s “RESONATE” Awards will focus on…

  • Science Takes Major Step Toward Protecting Groundwater from Industrial and Domestic Waste

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    redOrbit posts information about the advances scientists have made towards shielding groundwater from mining, industrial and domestic waste, all of which can contaminate the water for decades, rendering it unusable and undrinkable. A team led by Professor Derek Eamus at The National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has…