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City officials are waging a war on gardens
We've heard one too many stories in which people decide to use their yards to grow some fresh vegetables, only to have city officials come down hard on them, forcing them to tear out their food or bulldozing the gardens themselves.
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Seven graphs that should make the Obama campaign very nervous
The drought means higher food prices. Higher food prices mean more concern about the economy. And that means trouble for an incumbent president.
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Farmer spends $100,000 on waterbeds for cows
[protected-iframe id=”fd779d2d5dfa2bc178edb19793ecb62a-5104299-30166106″ info=”http://swfs.bimvid.com/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=KGW” width=”470″ height=”264″] Even on a small, family-owned dairy farm, life as a milk cow looks not so great. I mean, you do spend a lot of time standing around in a stall with devices attached to your nipples. That’s cool if it’s your thing, and if there are enough of you who […]
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Soot Hearings: Speaking Out For Public Health
On Tuesday, hundreds of Philadelphia residents rallied and spoke at an Environmental Protection Agency hearing on new safeguards to cut deadly soot pollution nationwide. Today, many more will rally at another soot hearing in Sacramento. I grew up in the Smoky Mountains, where – believe it or not – dangerous levels of air pollution sometimes […]
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People who don’t accept climate change also don’t accept that it’s hot
If you want people to accept climate change because it's hot outside, first you have to get them to accept that it's hot outside.
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How to make a tiny car: Just cut a regular car in half
Look, it still totally works!
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Flying the coop: The scrambled world of backyard poultry
Dream of nesting down with a flock of chickens, but too intimidated to try it? Our green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, discovers it’s not as hard as you think.
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Residents of Key West have a choice: dengue fever or GMO mosquitoes?
Oh, we forgot one. The existing solution to the mosquito problem is widespread use of insecticide. Probably not much more appealing.
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Hot out? Guess that means that everyone believes in climate change again
Well, not everyone. But maybe enough to sway Congress if we make a few adjustments.
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New San Francisco legislation will jump-start urban farming
On Tuesday, San Francisco passed game-changing legislation that should cement the city’s role as a national leader in urban food production.
