by Stu E.D. | Jul 17, 2015 | Activism, Farming, Seeds, Seeds, Sustainability
Since the crackdown on seed libraries by some U.S. states last year, organizers (including Shareable) around the country have been working to protect seed sharing. In both Minnesota and Nebraska, bills that specifically exempt non-commercial seed sharing from...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 13, 2015 | Environment, Farming, Plant Life
“Science” is derived from the scire – “to know”. Each of us should know what we are eating, how it was produced, what impact it has on our health. The knowledge we need for growing food is knowledge of biodiversity and living seed, of...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 11, 2015 | Food, Living Skills, World News
KARITAINA, Greece (AP) — Ilias Mathes has protection against bank closures, capital controls and the slashing of his pension: 10 goats, some hens and a vegetable patch.If Greece's financial crisis deepens, as many believe it must, he can feed his children and...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 8, 2015 | Environment, Sustainability, World News
Water Crisis The record-breaking drought in California is not chiefly the result of low precipitation. Three factors – rising temperatures, groundwater depletion, and a shrinking Colorado River – mean the most populous U.S. state will face decades of water shortages...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 7, 2015 | Environment, Off Topic, Pollution, Sustainability, World News
Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of evolutionary biology, natural resources and ecology at the University of Arizona, and has been a climate change expert for 30 years. He has also become a controversial figure, due to the fact that he does not shy away from...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 4, 2015 | Activism, Environment, Hawaii, World News
Indigenous Future Long prophesied by native thinkers, Earth is dying. The global ecological system is collapsing under the weight of industrial development. More ecosystems including the atmosphere have been lost and degraded than the biosphere can bear. Concurrently...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 3, 2015 | Farming, Food, Hawaii, Sustainability
Hawaii imports 90 percent of what it eats at great environmental cost. Now ag activists seek to make ‘grown here, not flown here’ a reality. HONOLULU—When my Airbus touched down at Honolulu International Airport, I was one of 30,843 people to arrive in Hawaii on a...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 2, 2015 | Farming, Plant Life
Farming Microbes What if farmers, instead of picking up some agricultural chemicals at their local dealer, picked up a load of agricultural microbes instead? It's something to contemplate, because some big names in the pesticide business — like Bayer and...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 30, 2015 | Activism, Organizations, Products & Services, Sustainability
These days, it’s unusual to find a large consumer products company that doesn’t have some sort of venture capital or startup-nurturing mechanism.Unilever is no different: Over the past year, it has invested $6 million in Unilever Foundry, a program for finding...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 26, 2015 | Alternative Living, Food, Hawaii, Intentional Community, Living Skills
Tracy From La'akea Community (Big Island) & Fellowship for Intentional Community Deep breath in, deep breath out. I sit on one of the twin beds in our upstairs meeting room, leaning against the wall, with a steaming cup of freshly harvested and brewed turmeric ginger...
