Farmer’s just say no … to plowing their fields.
IT TAKES NO TILLAGE
Conventional farmers drop their plows in favor of conservation
By Nathanael Johnson
The Michael and Adam Crowell duo works this way: Michael handles the crops, and Adam handles...
No good deed goes unpunished
important story is playing out on the East Coast. For years Chesapeake Bay has been a dumping ground for fertilizer, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other runoff from large urban areas....
Maybe there is hope for the mountaintops
This is certainly good news on a number of fronts. When financing for strip mining dries up so will the severe environmental damage and eventually the CO2. There is...
Univ. of Wisconsin professor links nutrition, environment
Here's a piece from Professor Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin linking environment and nutrition ... "saying innovation in agricultural and food systems is imperative for society's survival and development...We...
Crude by rail? Listen to this
If you only hear one piece of news about energy this week it should be Kristen Boyles's explainer about crude transport by rail. She's the attorney for Earthjustice and...
Big River Steel clears the air
Big River's air quality permit approved
John Correnti used to run the Nucor Steel plant in Blytheville, Arkansas. He got in a spat and left. Now he's back as the...
Strange bedfellows: Tea Partiers and Environmentalists
Okay the lead of the story is buried … still it's an interesting tale of the Tea Party and Environmentalists on the same side… for different reasons. Here's the...
Just wondering
Dear Friends,
As I get ready to launch fund-raising efforts for The Green Rocket I describe two main areas of focus: Energy/Transportation and Food/Nutrition. Friends who don't live in the...
Best and worst states for local food availability ..
Here's an interesting ranking of the best and worst states for local food availability. Their index measures things like the number of famers' markets, CSAs, etc. Not surprisingly Louisiana,...
There’s got to be a better way
By Scott Sines
This all started about three years ago when I accidently trapped a carpenter bee in our garage. The bee went berserk and repeatedly threw himself against the...