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If carbon dioxide isn’t a worry, nitrous oxide could not possibly offer any threat... right?

Posted by voice on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 in Agriculture

Last year was the second warmest in Britain since records began and CO2 levels have gone up by almost a fifth in the past five decades; but, as every well-briefed journalist knows, global warming is a myth put out by charlatans, so there can be no cause for concern. No, in 2012 we should worry inste...

Global Health & Innovation Conference

Posted by UniteForSight on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 in Agriculture

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and from more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changem...

Japan's Radioactive Farmland

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 in Agriculture

Nuclear fallout in farmland in eastern Japan is worse than expected. Now officials have a map of exactly where they should concentrate regulatory and clean-up efforts. In July the Japanese government expanded its Fukushima Evacuation Zone and banned shipments of beef that consumed radioactive hay f...

Organic Agriculture meets sustainability challenges

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 06 November 2011 in Agriculture

Posted by Liesl Truscott on October 31, 2011 in the Textile Exchange Blog http://www.textileexchange.org/blog/organic-agriculture-meets-sustainability-challenges Having recently returned from a meeting of the Roundtable on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) led by Andreas Gattinger (F...

Beauty Products and the Environment

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Agriculture

Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 by Sustainability Committee by Jennifer Lefebvre http://apus-sustainability.com/2010/10/11/beauty-products-and-the-environment/ Many of us have attempted to make small changes in our lives to combat the current climate situation, be more eco-friendl...

World's last Vietnam Rhino killed for its horn

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 28 October 2011 in Agriculture

A rhinoceros killed for its horn last year in Vietnam is now considered to have been the last of its subspecies. Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund reported Monday (Oct. 25) that they and their partners have analyzed the DNA from 22 dung samples collected in Vietnam since April 2010, when the ...

SeaWorld sued for 'enslaving' killer whales

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 27 October 2011 in Agriculture

An animal rights group has sued SeaWorld, accusing the aquatic theme park chain of violating the rights of captive killer whales under the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. The lawsuit, filed late on Tuesday in US District Court in San Diego, lists five per...

Japan Whale Hunt Plan

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 03 October 2011 in Agriculture

Japan plans to go ahead with its Southern Ocean whaling program this year despite threats from activists to disrupt the annual hunt. Japan's fisheries minister said measures would be taken to ensure the safety of the whalers and the hunt would go ahead. It is expected to begin in ...

Bill Clinton Slams GOP Climate Deniers During Global Initiative Conference

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 21 September 2011 in Agriculture

We look like a joke, right?" Former President Bill Clinton wasted no time at his annual philanthropic conference with an attack on GOP climate deniers. At the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual NYC meeting, Politico reports that the former president said, "If you’re an American, the best thing you ...

Eating Organic is the Single Greenest Thing You Can Do

Posted by amir on Sunday, 18 September 2011 in Agriculture

"If you do just one thing -- make one conscious choice -- that can change the world, go organic.... No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future." That's a bold statement. Is eating organic mo...

Could We Survive on Nothing But Cookies?

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 02 September 2011 in Agriculture

If you could eat only one kind of food forevermore -- just one kind, all day every day -- what would it be? For me, it would be cookies. When you've seen a lot of life and death, you start to wonder how you'd live if you could make the rules. You realize what you would reta...

Waste-to-Energy Firm Harvest Power Raises $1.3 Million in Venture Capital

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 02 September 2011 in Agriculture

Waltham, Mass. – Harvest Power, a developer of technology for recycling waste materials into soils, fertilizers, energy, and engineered fuels, has raised $1.3 million in venture capital, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Founded in 2008, Harvest P...

Chipotle's Quest To End Factory Farms

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 01 September 2011 in Agriculture

by Morgan ClendanielIn this charming music video from Chipotle, Willie sings about going "back to the start" of American farming, before animals were pumped with antibiotics and kept in factories. A farmer, not content with his small family farm, starts to modernize. He turns his farm into a factor...

Link found between increased crops and deforestation in Amazon, but issue not so cut and dry

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Sunday, 17 July 2011 in Agriculture

A Kansas State University geographer is part of a research team out to prove what environmental scientists have suspected for years: Increasing the production of soybean and biofuel crops in Brazil increases deforestation in the Amazon. Although this cause-and-effect finding seems fairly straightfo...

Organic Farming Shows Untapped Potential

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 06 June 2011 in Agriculture

Despite the crippling effects of the recent economic slowdown on many industries, the organic agriculture sector not only sustained itself during this period, but also showed signs of growth."In 2009, organic farming was practiced on 90.4 million hectares (90.4 million acres) worldwide, a 5.7 percen...

It's Only Natural - Organic Farming Down Under

Posted by henryfool on Monday, 06 June 2011 in Agriculture

City customers give organic farmers and sellers reason to keep growing, writes Carli Ratcliff. "Organic food is an imposition of city folk (worried about their colons) on farming folk, telling them how they should farm.'' So said A. A. Gill on his recent visit to Sydney. Though far from the most in...

Grants - Helping the Planet

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Sunday, 05 June 2011 in Agriculture

Support for Conservation Programs in the Western U.S. and Canada The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Environmental Program The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation works to resolve social and environmental problems in the U.S. and around the world. One of the focus areas of the Foundation’s En...

GRANT opportunity promotes a Sustainable World

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Sunday, 05 June 2011 in Agriculture

Grants Promote a Just and Sustainable World The Glaser Progress Foundation The Glaser Progress Foundation aims to build a more just, sustainable, and humane world by supporting nonprofit organizations with a national focus and a strong history of success in targeted program areas. The mission of th...

Climate change curbs crops

Posted by henryfool on Sunday, 08 May 2011 in Agriculture

Warming has already lowered yields of wheat and corn. Nicola Jones Farmers have produced less food during the past three decades than they would have done were climate change not happening, according to a study published today1. Global maize (corn) production, for example, is estimated to be about...

World's Farmers Feel The Effects Of A Hotter Planet

Posted by henryfool on Saturday, 07 May 2011 in Agriculture

by Richard Harris Scientists have long predicted that — eventually — temperatures and altered rainfall caused by global climate change will take a toll on four of the most important crops in the world: rice, wheat soy and corn. Now, as world grain prices hover near record highs, a new study finds ...