Organic agriculture produces smaller harvests than conventional methods, but the difference can be minimized by employing the right techniques, a study finds. Organic agriculture generally comes at a cost of smaller harvests compared with conventional agriculture, but that gap can be narrowed with careful selection of crop type, growing conditions and management techniques, according a [...]
Filed under: Ecology, Environment, Food & Diet, Gardening, Health, Technology on April 26th, 2012 | No Comments »
Free Everything http://www.shareable.net/blog/free-everything#comments It is Saturday morning at 10:07 am and I find myself following a young man I have only just met down a narrow sidewalk between buildings, past a tall spruce tree to a humble but exceedingly well-kept little carriage house hidden in the middle of a block in North-East Portland. The slab [...]
Filed under: Ecology, Money, Technology on April 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »
A man in his mid-50s helped grow a huge forest on a sand bar in the middle of the mighty Brahmaputra in Assam’s Jorhat district, which has caught attention of the government, tourists and film-makers. The 30-year-long effort of Jadav Payeng, known among local people as ‘Mulai’, to grow the woods, stretching over an area [...]
Filed under: Ecology, Environment, Gardening on April 8th, 2012 | No Comments »