Tag Archive: food

Vertical Farming the Ocean

Tammy Clayton

One man’s amazing approach to vertical farming could replace fossil fuels, GMO biofuel crops, create new industry for people who’s livelihood was decimated by big business, and providelocally-grown food produced with extremely sustainable methods. He’s growing native species in an open system farm that uses no soil or growth media, no fertilizers or nutrients, no grow lighting or environmental control, because…

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Greenwashing Is Everywhere

Something else that we’re going to see more and more in the future is called greenwashing. I looked it up in the dictionary, and it says: “greenwash – a superficial or insincere display of concern for the environment that is shown by an organization.” Sounds like something you’re not stupid enough to fall for right?…
February 15, 2016
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Inmates & Aquaponics

Prison gardens have become pretty common, and truth be known, prison farms have been around for centuries. Many state and county correctional systems find growing food and flowers offer rehabilitative benefits for inmates, not to mention teaching them job skills, while the produce helps to keep penal facility operation costs down, and can even supply…
October 7, 2015
Callie

Save Seed Sharing Campaign

Last summer when Pennsylvannia’s Department of Agriculture shut down the seed library at the Mechanicsville Public Library stating that they were breaking laws the news went viral with gardeners, off-griders, and food activists blasting thousands of complaints into the blogosphere. Now sustainable economy attorney, Neil Thapar, having studied these laws for many states, reports that…
April 18, 2015
Tammy Clayton

New GMO Wave

Who opened the valve on GMOs? Wave after wave of fresh genetically modified foods and crops news have rolled over our news sensors in the past couple of weeks. Probably the most important is this announcement: No Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety Not a rumor. It’s a fact. The much bantered about scientists concur that…
February 20, 2015
Amber