I’m confident that eating highly nutritious foods is a good idea. The concept that soil depletion, monocropping, insecticides/herbicides, and chemical fertilizers have reduced the quality of our foods rings true to virtually all of us. But I’m even more confident …
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Eco-Threats To Our Civilization’s Food Supplies
According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the anniversary of “Black Sunday” in 1935, the day on which the Great Plains region experienced one of the largest dust storms in American history. It’s an important reminder of what happens when farm …
Tagged with: algal blooms, bioaccumulate, Chemical fertilizer run-off, Climate Change, dead zones, deforestation, desertification, drought conditions, Eco-Threats To Our Civilization’s Food Supplies, environmental issues, fungicides, herbicides, Insecticides, melting of the ice sheets in Greenland the Antarctic, monocropping, Pesticide residues, sea level rise
Aquaponics, Aeroponics, and Other Concepts in Modern Vegetable Farming
Regarding my recent post on aeroponics and other aspects of sustainable agriculture, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes something that is both correct—and illustrative of a large point in clean tech investment: I believe that the future will rely on …
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