organic farming
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Forget peanuts. George Washington Carver’s environmental legacy is the real story.
The iconic scientist was way more than just the "Peanut Man."
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On Hurricane Maria’s anniversary, farmers plant papaya and resilience in Puerto Rico
One model of how the island can move forward into a future that will likely see destructive storms strike again and again.
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Is organic always better? It’s not as clear-cut as you might think.
To be truly sustainable, agriculture needs to go beyond pesticides and fertilizers.
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The crazy, complicated world of “organic” weed
Meet the man who does organic bud inspections.
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Small-scale farmers fight back against the climate monster
"Small Scale Farmers Cool the Planet" shows how organic farmers just might hold the key to slaying the biggest beast of our age.
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Critical List: A blueprint for a ‘bioeconomy’; urban chicken retirement
The Obama administration is going to release a blueprint for a “bioeconomy” — an idea that includes renewable energy and biological manufacturing. Here is what conservatives think about energy and the environment, for real. Apparently environmentalists want America to suffer, to follow not lead … TO FAIL. Watch this video to get angry. China’s reaching […]
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Critical List: TransCanada reboots KeystoneXL; the most energy-dense battery ever
TransCanada is going to reapply for a Keystone XL permit and wants to start work on the Oklahoma-to-Texas portion of the pipeline. Envia Systems has created the most energy-dense battery ever, which could bring down the price of electric vehicles and extend their range. Rick Santorum thinks gas prices caused the recession. No, he really […]
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Organic food is not always sustainable food
Good food, as we've come to know it in that last few years, has a few characteristics: It's local. It's grown using responsible, land-loving techniques, like crop rotations and polycultures. And it's organic, raised without chemical fertilizers and poison pesticides. At one point, “organic” was shorthand for all of that, because the same people who cared enough to grow their vegetables with manure cared about environmental sustainability and tended to be local.
But now “organic” can be shorthand only for adherence to a certain set of rules that outlaw certain concentrations of certain types of fertilizers and pesticides, and as the New York Times points out, it sometimes doesn't mean much else. -
Berry toxic: Decoding the organic strawberry debacle
Food advocates and farmers want to close a loophole that allows farms to sell organic berries that have spent as much as half their lives in conventional nurseries.