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Sustainability in Agriculture
Sustainability agriculture is an approach designed to mainain biodiversity and natural habitats while still producing economically viable agricultural products.
Jean Talon Market is full of produce right now, the bounty of months of sun and summer rain. I've never bought a skein of chilis, but a string of garlic is something that I'll have to get this year. By spring, the stores here are selling garlic from China, which seems incredible. Far better for the local growers and our carbon imprint if we buy garlic from Quebec, it seems to me.
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TemasEtUnam When in June I recommened a good article about the contribution of farm animal production to global climate change, I noted the significance for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): the importance of farm animal production throughout the region, in terms of employment, land use and contribution to gross domestic product (GDP). One month later, Latin America took an important step toward addressing the issue: Uruguay hosted the region’s first Livestock Emissions and Abatement...
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A farm box is a container that one loads up with all the equipment, tools and supplies that will be needed for a farm project. Much like the chuck wagon to the left. We owned and operated a 180 acre farm located along the bank of Valley Creek in Northwestern Runnels county, Texas, USA. In the fall of 2005, we began a move to Central Kansas, USA.
I hope that you’ll find information here that will be useful in your next farm or garden project. Any advice or information I post here is the...
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We’ve all heard the figures. We know that meat...
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Environmentalists have long derided the methods that have come to be standard practice for American ranchers and farmers. Over-reliant on water, fossil fuels, large equipment, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides???many of them fossil fuel intensive in their own right???livestock and...
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"As governor of a state with a birth-defect rate that's twice the national average, and which has the gloomy status as repository of toxic chemicals from around the world, [Sarah] Palin has pursued environmental policies that seem perfectly crafted to swell the ranks of special-needs kids. It's...
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"The Environmental Protection Agency formally refused yesterday to set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate, a chemical in rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women, newborns and young children.
With little fanfare, the agency issued a news release...
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Groups interested in government environmental policy will conclude a two-day conference in Rapid City on Saturday, Oct. 4, with several public programs.
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Groups interested in government environmental policy will convene a two-day conference in Rapid City on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3 and 4.
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"MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota and eight other states on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over what they say is an illegal ruling that could hurt fisheries and contaminate drinking water.
The lawsuit targets an EPA water transfer rule published June 9 that...
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"In the far west reaches of Montrose and San Miguel counties, the nuclear boom is rippling, but with those ripples has come a final close to a mill as old as the Atomic Age itself.
Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced cleanup of the Uravan Mill Superfund Site was...
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"U.S. Sen. Max Baucus has accused White House and Environmental Protection Agency officials of orchestrating 'conspiracy' by squashing a decision to declare a public health emergency in Libby three years after it was revealed more than 200 people died and another 2,000 fell ill because of...
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"WASHINGTON -- Loose regulation, now blamed for ills ranging from the U.S. financial crisis to imports of tainted Chinese goods, is drawing increasing fire from opponents of the Bush administration's environment program.
In the final months of President George W. Bush's two terms in office...
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Sydney Mullins planned to concentrate in management when she entered Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business. But the essence of business is recognizing opportunities, and she sees one in sustainability.
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