http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05allen-t.html?pagewanted=all By ELIZABETH ROYTE Published: July 1, 2009 Will Allen, a farmer of Bunyonesque proportions, ascended a berm of wood chips and brewer’s mash and gently probed it with a pitchfork. “Look at this,” he said, pleased with the treasure he unearthed. A writhing mass of red worms dangled from his tines. He bent over, raked [...]
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/10/BUTI1MNFD7.DTL Think of the pickup truck from Via Motors as an electric generator on wheels. The truck, unveiled Tuesday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, runs on electricity. But it also can supply electricity – enough to power whole houses…. …To illustrate the point, Pruett fired up a circular saw plugged into [...]
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http://www.nationofchange.org/farmers-everywhere-small-still-beautiful-1326898695 There is battle raging across the world over who can better feed its people: small-scale farmers practicing sustainable agriculture, or giant agribusinesses using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It was small-scale organic farmers growing rice for themselves and local markets in the Philippines who first convinced us that they could feed both their communities and their country. [...]
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http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/01/green-cement By Miranda C. Spencer Jan. 23, 2012 PHILADELPHIA – The source of 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions is hiding in plain sight, in the sidewalk beneath our feet. It is cement, a key ingredient of concrete, the most widely used building material on the planet. And manufacturing conventional “Portland” cement [...]
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http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/patagonia-becomes-california-benefit-corporation.html On the first day that California-based companies could change their corporate status to become a Benefit Corporation, TreeHugger Person of the Year 2011-nominated Patagonia further put its principles into practice, reregistering yesterday morning with a new, greener, socially-aware corporate status. Though a number of other corps (the full list is below) took advantage of the new corporate [...]
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http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/va-news-articles_2011-11-30?vaid=f093c1a7708c21221e92a45142dcaf80 Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer’s green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their [...]
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http://www.grist.org/smart-cities/2011-12-28-green-cities-on-the-cheap-low-cost-solutions-sustainable-world Jaime Lerner was elected mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, in 1971, and reelected two more times before serving as governor of the Brazilian state of Paran�. As mayor, Lerner devised a number of low-cost solutions and innovative partnerships with the public and private companies that turned Curitiba into a model green community. He has won [...]
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