Tag: United States

  • New Model of Organic Farming Sprouting in Chinese Suburbs

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    By Wan Su: Caixin Online Farmers are contracting with customers to provide a year’s worth of produce, an approach one academic says could be viable. (Beijing) – A new model of locally organized organic farming has taken root in Beijing and Shanghai in recent years, and an academic says it could be a viable way…

  • New study finds nothing impressive about GM crop yields

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    By Laura Rance in the Winnipeg Free Press: The debate over genetically modified crops has often generated more heat than light. Some opponents claim the stuff is hazardous to our health, which seems unlikely, given that just about anything with vegetable oil or corn in it (and that’s just about everything these days) comes from…

  • And you thought it was bad here

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    From Ally Bruschi’s article in The Daily Mail: Endless food scandals throughout the past few years have Chinese consumers growing suspicious and weary of their grocery store produce —enough so for more well-off families to begin seeking organic alternatives to their traditional foods. For example, Catherine Ho Wai-man and her family have stopped buying produce from…

  • Telecoupling – A Holistic Understanding of Sustainability

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    Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability highlights a recent study by  led by Jianguo “Jack” Liu, Michigan State University’s Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability: In the new issue of Ecology and Society, Liu, director of MSU’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), and his colleagues lay the groundwork to understand how an action…

  • How the earth heals itself after an earthquake

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    Becky Oskin writes a fascinating piece,  at Mother Nature Network, about how the earth heals itself after an earthquake: For the first time, scientists have watched the Earth heal itself after an earthquake. The process is similar to the body repairing a cut, researchers from China and the United States reported on June 27 in the journal…

  • Be part of a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life.

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    Bioneers is a non-profit New Mexico corporation founded in 1990 by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons. The overarching mission of Bioneers is the advancement of holistic education pertaining to global social, cultural and environmental issues. Bioneers identifies progressive yet nature-honoring solutions to rising challenges of instability, inequality, and unsustainable growth and disseminates this knowledge via…

  • “When thunder roars, go indoors.”

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    By Jack Williams, Washington Post Folklore isn’t a good guide to lightning safety, but it remains a big source of advice. Probably the most common lightning folklore is that metal “attracts” lighting. One variation is that if you’re going out to play golf don’t wear shoes with metal spikes because they “attract lightning.” Folklore also…

  • Benefits of an organic food diet from an organic farming advocate’s perspective

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    Posted by: Khareem Cabey in Business Organic farming advocate, Philippe van den Bossche,responds to an article discussing the benefits of eating organic. According to a Wall Street Journal article, sales of organic food have been rising steadily over the past 10 years, “reaching almost $30 billion in 2011, or 4.2% of all U.S. food and beverage sales, as reported by the…

  • One Earth Sangha – Climage Change from the Insight Meditation Community

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    By: dannyfisher  As you may have heard, President Obama today unveiled his second-term plan to address climate change. His speech envisioned three obligations for America: ”cutting carbon pollution in America, leading international efforts to cut global emissions, and preparing the U.S. for the costly impacts of climate change.” You can read the full transcript here, and watch it online here. Al Gore hailed the…

  • The Poetry Drone

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      Hector Tobar delves into the reasons behind poet David Shook ‘s Drone in the LA Times: The idea behind “The Poetry Drone” is to buy an actual flying drone — which can be had for as little as $5,000, Shook says — and fly it over some populated place and have the drone rain…