10 hours ago by flyingtomato

This is by no means exhaustive, but here’s a list of the upcoming workshops and conferences scheduled in the region: MOSES (Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service) Organic Conference Lacrosse, WI Thurs.-Sat. February 25-27. This is the “big momma” of organic and sustainable ag conferences ...

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2 days ago by beckyajohnson

Since this is my husband and my first Christmas together, lots of people seem to be making a big deal as to what we are going to get each other. Honestly, I have never been a big fan of the over-commercialization of Christmas and the sense of obligation many people feel to buy something for everyone ...

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2 days ago by SupremeMasterTV

At the two-week United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark, discussions have continued to revolve around how much global temperatures should be allowed to rise, with low-lying countries vulnerable to sea level rise calling for no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius increase. Even at this level, m ...

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2 days ago by Jennifer Grayson

My friend is up for one of the coveted internships at Polyface Farm, that near-utopian model of sustainable agriculture of The Omnivore’s Dilemma fame. He just returned from his interview at the farm in Virginia’s verdant Shenandoah Valley (he finds out about the internship in January — fingers cros ...

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2 days ago by Theresa

This the fourth post in Theresa Gould’s series on her organic farming learning experience. My husband, Robert, and I have had to go solo these past two Stateline Farm Beginning classes due to our childcare not being well and the fact the class is on Thursday evenings this month. Hopefully in January ...

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2 days ago by Bill Harshaw

One of the arguments of the organic people (as opposed to us inorganic robots) is tied to the concept of "peak oil"--as we exhaust our oil and natural gas we lose the feedstock for fertilizer. But a reminder that the future is different from an extrapolation of past trends comes in this Technology R ...

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2 days ago by admin

We normally do not think that health is related to economics other than with regard to the costs of medical care. But there is another more fundamental way money impacts our wellbeing. If you could not pay your bills or had to worry about where the next meal would come from, would you be thinking ab ...

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2 days ago by Heather Chi

Think of “Food” and “Asia” and what comes to mind is a rich and diverse mosaic of landscapes and sentiments: on the one hand, we can imagine golden fields of rice tended by tight-knit communities, abundant harvests at year-end festivals, and sprawling, animated markets; however, we also have unsavor ...

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3 days ago by lefav

Tomorrow night at the MIX Downtown and The CCC in partnership with the Downtown Sacramento Partnership will host the pilot event for first ever Sacramento Idea Fair. What is an Idea Fair? you may ask, well in short it’s a show-n-tell for adults, highlighting new concepts and ideas for the greater Sa ...

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3 days ago by SupremeMasterTV

During the two-week climate change conference in Denmark, the organization Veg Climate Alliance, a coalition of environmental, vegetarian, animal rights, health and other groups, has been working to raise awareness that a global shift to the veg lifestyle is essential to avoid an unprecedented globa ...

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