Posted: Apr 11, 2011 -Sustainability Matters Topics: Sustainability > Waste Advance towards making biodegradable plastics from waste chicken feathers In a scientific advance literally plucked from the waste heap, scientists have described a key step towards using the billions of waste chicken feathers produced each year to make one of the more important kinds of [...]
Posts tagged ‘Farming’
Mixed Feelings on Carbon Farming (tag:blog)
Posted October 14th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Gene Logsdon: The Achilles Heel In Pasture Farming Is It’s Best Foot Forward
Posted October 5th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON Hardly any new idea in farming holds up in all circumstances for all time. I have learned the hard way not to make grandiose statements about it. I had just about decided, after years of experimentation, that pasture farming— allowing livestock and chickens to graze for their food rather than penning them [...]
City Forest Farming
Posted September 2nd, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON One of the bright spots in our fumbling, bumbling economy is the progress of urban and suburban farming, especially in connection with farmers’ markets. But there is another aspect of this coming together of city and country that needs more innovative thinking. I was traveling through Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights in [...]
Gene Logsdon: Archeology Not Agriculture Teaches Good Farming
Posted August 25th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON I’m thinking lately that a farmer can learn more about sustainable farming from history rather than from current science. Agriculture has been taking giant leaps “forward” and archeology giant leaps “backward,” both with intriguing and absorbing results. Both work under a handicap. Archeology studies a silent past and has to worry that [...]
Gene Logsdon: Archeology Not Agriculture Teaches Good Farming
Posted April 28th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON I’m thinking lately that a farmer can learn more about sustainable farming from history rather than from current science. Agriculture has been taking giant leaps “forward” and archeology giant leaps “backward,” both with intriguing and absorbing results. Both work under a handicap. Archeology studies a silent past and has to worry that [...]
Farming Seafood to Tough Standards
Posted October 30th, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
Whether you call it “fish farming” or go for the more formal term “aquaculture,” people have a variety of concerns about farmed fish. (Yes, wild-caught seafood has its issues too — see our recent post on our new wild seafood ranking program.) Having worked in the seafood business for more than 20 years, I can [...]
Organic Farming: Rodale Institute on PBS this Weekend
Posted October 21st, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
From BEGINNING FARMERS Save the date and get the organic popcorn poppin’ this weekend for Growing a Greener World. The PBS program is featuring Pennsylvania’s own Rodale Institute (organic pioneers since 1947) on the upcoming fall episode! Hosts Joe Lamp’l and Patti Moreno visit the farm, the “cradle of organic gardening in America,” to talk with Maria [...]
Farm Greenhouse Calculation and Farming Soil Carbon.
Posted October 21st, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
A New Service to the Farming Community from Green Home Sustainability Carbon sequestration in soil was the subject of a research report by sustainability analyst group Connection Research in late 2009. Their report canvassed the opinions of 85 scientists, farmers and other specialists in the area. The key finding of the report was a strong [...]
Greenhorns: the network breathing new life into US farming
Posted September 21st, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
From DAVID HAWKINS The Ecologist It‘s helping attract youthful talent into sustainable agriculture across the US, but can the Greenhorns movement survive in the land of Big Ag? The Greenhorns is an exciting new movement tearing up the turf (gently) in the USA. This fresh network of young farmers is mapping the future of food [...]
Gene Logsdon: Despite Gloom, Things Are Looking Up For Garden Farming
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Admin. Comments (2).
From GENE LOGSDON There were several times so far this year when I almost wished I lived in a high rise luxury apartment in New York far removed from the paltry world of cutworms and purslane. First the crows ate up my whole first planting of open-pollinated field corn and when I replanted, too deep [...]