Tag Archive: climate change

Christmas Tree Shortage Has Prices Skyrocketing

Catherine Sherriffs

It looks like the trends of living greener and eating cleaner are finding a place in the holiday season. Environmentally conscious millennials are giving Christmas tree farmers a much-needed boost by choosing to buy natural and locally grown trees. That’s according to recent data released by the National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA) and Square Inc.…

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GMO Breeding Reduces Crop Adaptability

A private GMO corn study reveals that high yield “breeding” is messing up the crop’s ability to adapt to environmental stress and change. Not surprising. They use a very limited gene pool suited to the desired result; ever-increasing yields. However, as many a farmer and gardener knows, there’s a limit to what is possible with…
December 4, 2017
Callie

Sustainable City Food Systems Pact

Urban agriculture is a major part of a growing sustainable city food systems movement, one that is spreading at an amazing speed. It’s not just because locally grown food is a trend embraced by more affluent urbanites, and discerning chefs. Urban farming has also proven to create economy, and healthy food options where neither was…
October 28, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Climate Change Predicted 200 Years Ago

Okay, that’s exaggerated a tad. Technically, it’s only been 171 years –  but the causes of climate change were studied and noted earlier than that. Since the conclusions were not published until 1844, we’ll have to go with the official date of the predictions. It’s most unfortunate that no one was paying much attention. They were far…
September 18, 2015
Amber

8 Times More Trees

The new guestimate is that there are over 3 trillion trees on Earth. You think they counted them all? Who would fund that kind of project? Granted this is far better than 400 billion trees left standing, but it’s really nothing to get overly excited about. It’s not enough trees, and very few of them…
September 9, 2015
Tammy Clayton

Correcting Climate Naturally

We don’t need technology to reverse climate change. That will only help big business. We don’t need carbon taxes or credits to reduce the harmful amount of  carbon or CO2 in the air. Science has discovered a direct connection between degraded soils from traditional farming and weather extremes a.k.a. climate change. About 25% of the carbon…
August 14, 2015
Callie