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Making your own apple juice
By Lindsay Seaman, Eartheasy, Posted October 29th, 2009Turning windfalls into autumn’s elixir…
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Fair Food Farmstead – providing accessibility to locally grown food
By Eartheasy, Posted October 19th, 2009Many consumers cite ‘distance’ and ‘inconvenient location’ as reasons to not shop at farmer’s markets. The Farmstand, located in Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal, is pioneering an innovative model for a community supported agricultural program.
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Our experience with a solar powered refrigerator
By Greg Seaman, Posted September 16th, 2009Having living almost 30 years in an off-grid home with no electricity, and no refrigeration, we finally bought a new solar powered refrigerator. Here are our impressions.
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Study shows progress in rebuilding global fisheries
By Eartheasy, Posted August 24th, 2009The world’s commercial fisheries, pressured by overfishing and threatened with possible collapse by mid-century, could be rebuilt with careful management, according to new research.
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An organic farmer’s perspective on the meat/climate change debate
By Eliot Coleman, Grist.org, Posted August 20th, 2009A 2007 UN report called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” claimed that 18 percent of global human-induced greenhouse gas emissions stem from meat production. Eliot Coleman, a respected small-scale farmer, offers this counterpoint.
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Urban Beekeeping – the latest buzz
By Christian Science Monitor, Posted July 28th, 2009Urban settings can be surprisingly productive environments for raising bees
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Can We Rely on Organic Food and Clothing?
By Bob Folkart, LiveLifeOrganics.com, Posted July 27th, 2009Have organic labels and the food and clothing products that exhibit them lost their reliability?
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Are pesticides causing Parkinson’s disease?
By Robin Marantz Henig, OnEarth Magazine, Posted June 22nd, 200930-plus years of research sheds light on a hidden connection…
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Using markets to make fisheries sustainable
By Robert Stavins, Posted May 2nd, 2009Can government provide a solution to the global issue of over-fishing?
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Fruits and vegetables yielding fewer nutrients than in the past
By Greg Seaman, Posted May 1st, 2009While modern farming tecniques are producing larger and more perfect fruits and vegetables, the yield in terms of nutrients is declining.
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