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Green Agriculture November 21 2008

Biodynamics: Farming on Sustainability Steroids

Jonathan Ashe - Biodynamic agriculture requires holistically treating your patch of land as a living organism -- with a dash of supernatural mysticism.

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Andrea Nocito

Guidelines Released For Healthy Landscape Design

A new report details how to integrate vegetation into in sustainable land use designs.»

Cosmo Catalano

EU Pesticides May Harm More Than Bugs

A new study suggest a link between certain pesticides and impaired brain development in fetuses and young children.»

Cosmo Catalano

Debate Rages Between Organic and GM Agricultural

Controversy continues over the roles of genetically modified foods and organic agriculture in addressing world hunger.»

Thursday Bram

Sustainable Agriculture Sets Standards

Reps from food production, retail, manufacturing, environmental and labor groups meet to develop standards for sustainable agriculture.»

Cosmo Catalano

Say No to Sludge

Advocacy groups hope to get the EPA to reverse a five-year-old decision allowing the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer.»

Cosmo Catalano

South African Impacts Study Redefines Sustainability

Increasing the use and accuracy of carbon labeling could change how consumers perceive sustainability.»

Andrea Nocito

Farming Sustainable Community Businesses

Environmental justice meets sustainable agriculture in AnewAmerica Community Corporation's Green Market project.»

Thursday Bram

Green Industry Gets Greener

The horticultural business -- the true "green" industry -- faces unique sustainability issues.»

Cosmo Catalano

Bush Administration Eyes Undeveloped Farmland

CLD lands could offer additional crop-growing capacity, but will it come with too high an ecological price?»

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CleanTech.com

Hybrid Rice Developed for Salty Land

Research could boost crop production on 75 percent of China's arable land to help meet demand for food security.»

Triple Pundit

NYC Ice Cream Truck Redefines Ice Cream

Taking inspiration from both the biodynamic and slow food movements, an ice cream entrepreneur in New York sources ingredients organically and sustainably.»

New Energy News

"Carbon Farming" Practices Prove Lucrative

Farmers who practice no-till farming, thus sequestering greenhouse gases in the soil, can earn credits through the National Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program.»

Sustainable Industries

Consumers Fish for Sustainable Seafood

While the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) continues to struggle to define the parameters of organic seafood labeling, global sales of sustainably harvested fish is increasing.»

Triple Pundit

Unsustainable Farming: The Death of Chocolate?

According to the Nature Conservation Research Council, in 20 years time, chocolate could be as rare as caviar is today due to unsustainable farming practices.»

Sustainable Industries

A Business Case for Backyard Farms

Some West Coast businesses, such as Portland's City Garden Farms and San Francisco's My Farm, are poised to turn a passion for vegetable patches into profits.»

CleanTech.com

Disinfecting with Radio Frequencies

RF Biocidics is developing a novel system to clean up food and agriculture products, eliminating pathogens and insects without the use of chemicals or radiation.»

Sustainable Industries

Agribusiness Invests in Water

Many agribusiness giants allotting financial and staff resources to investigating new technologies and processes that improve the efficient use of water.»

Guardian Environment

British Government Takes Fresh Look at GM Crops

Genetically modified crops could be grown in Britain on a wider scale as a means of dealing with the global food crisis.»

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