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Feeding our wood stove in winter

Our farm provides more than nutrition. We also have the land to thank for the toasty living room I now enjoy.

Vote on the Scariest Food of 2010

From pink slime to salmonella eggs, 2010 dished up sick food news like a lunchlady gone postal. What were you most afraid to put in your mouth in 2010?

FarmHack celebrates 'resourceful farming with found materials'

Farming attracts tinkerers, makers, and make-doers -- and now some have begun open-sourcing their inventions on a new blog.

Who will own the smarter cities of the future?

As cities get smarter, concerns about privacy and corporate control are growing. Plus, big corporations can be pretty stupid.

New report confirms, again, that new EPA regulations won't hurt power system reliability

There's been a lot of hubbub lately about new and emerging EPA regulations. Lots of folks in pollution-intensive industries would like you to believe that those regulations will crush the economy, leave grandma shivering in the dark, and smack that ice cream cone right out of little Jimmy's hands. A while back I wrote about a report that examined the issue closely and concluded that the power industry can comply with the new regulations without adversely affecting system reliability. Now another analysis has been released, examining the same set of issues and coming to the roughly same conclusion.

The Climate Post: Cancun climate talks limp to a compromise at close of hottest year on record

It's official, at least according to NASA: worldwide, 2010 was the hottest year on record.

Texas Needs to Lead the Nation Away From Coal

This week’s post was co-written by Jennifer Powis, Sierra Club Senior Regional Representative in Texas. Texas has the worst air quality in the country and it will take a concrete vision to fix it. Unfortunately, state officials keep permitting coal plants instead of take real steps to clean the air. This week the Texas Commission […]

Fertilizer prices putting manure in the limelight

I never thought I'd see the day when shit -- the bodily kind -- would make headlines the way it is right now. But with phosphorous and potash prices rising, farmers are starting to get a lot more interested in the older sources for fertilizer.

Hey, Obama: You can't bargain with the climate

There's one place where Barack Obama's reasonable compromises simply won't work. That place is the climate.

Follow-up on Seattle's proposed deep-bore tunnel

A roundup of basic info on the impending decision to build a huge, car-centric mega-tunnel under downtown Seattle.