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Permaculture

Grassfed Beef Can SOLVE Global Warming

October 14, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

This post is part of the Blog Action Day for Climate Change and Fight Back Friday hosted by FoodRenegade! 150 years ago, much of the Great Midwest was still covered with prairie grassland, providing valuable grazing land and habitat for thousands of plant and animal species, including millions of elk, bison and deer. These lands [...]

Environmental News Highlights – 10/8/2009

October 8, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

This week’s GreenLinks are about inspiration. Each of the following stories inspired me to believe that we can solve the economic and environmental crises the world is now facing, and they also powerfully prodded me to do what I can to make a difference in my home and community. I hope they inspire you too…

Environmental News Highlights – 10/1/2009

October 1, 2009 Factory-Free Food

Farming and sustainable agriculture are very close to my heart. I’ve spent a lot of my life gardening and homesteading and a good chunk of my career helping city dwellers develop community gardens, farmettes, and rooftop planting systems. So this week, I was really happy to find so many exciting links about the importance of [...]

You Can Fix All the World’s Problems in a Garden

September 17, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

This extremely inspiring, 5-minute video demonstrates how Permaculture gardening practices can be used to desalinate soils just a mile away from the Dead Sea in the Jordanian desert—restoring them to life and food productivity without the use of chemical fertilizers, heavy irrigation or tilling. If we can heal the land and bring life back to [...]

Farms for the Future

July 30, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

More than 90 percent of all the food grown in the U.S. is reliant on synthetic fertilizer made from petrochemicals. Without it there would be no food for most of us. The soils of America’s industrial agriculture system are dead, compacted and depleted, so without artificial fertilizer, there’s just not enough nutrients for the crops [...]