Sep
9
2010
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With all the evidence of
human-induced global warming, you'd think it would be good news that some of our activities, like
releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly illustrated by a new study showing the regional cooling effects of mass irri...
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Sep
9
2010
Image credit: GenBug (Creative Commons)
With all the evidence of
human-induced global warming, you'd think it would be good news that some of our activities, like
releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly illustrated by a new study showing the regional cooling effects of mass irri...
Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sep
8
2010
Image credit: Adopt-a-Farmbox
Childhood obesity,
meat unfit for KFC being used in school lunches,
food deserts, you don't have to look too far to find a broken food system—especially where kids are concerned. But there are plenty of people working like crazy to do something about it. One project is ...
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Sep
7
2010
Image credit: Permaculture Research Institute
TreeHugger has featured an
awesome tour of a permaculture allotment,
permaculture-inspired disaster relief in Haiti, and even
greening the desert in Jordan. Yet while permaculture—which very simply put is the art of designing gardens and farms that mimic natural ecosystems—...
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Most TreeHuggers will tell you that without access to decent, viable seed, and without a system for allowing that seed to develop and adapt, the long-term sustainability of our food system is nigh-on impossible. Yet while some corporations are busy filing patents over soybeans, there are activists, farmers and gardeners around the world who are busy perpetuating and evolving what might be the world's oldest open-source project—seed swapping. From Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A long time ago, George Monbiot argued that the "only ethical response" to the sharp rise in meat eating around the world was to go vegan. He clearly changed his mind a while back though, instead making the case that we should reserve meat eating for special occasions. While he's still an advocate of greatly reduced meat consumption, his latest article seems to be a lot more positive about even a moderate diet of well-raised animal proteins. So what's got him to change his...Read the full story on TreeHugger