It’s common knowledge that drought, monoculture, overuse of chemical fertilizer and pesticides, and excessive plowing have created “dead soil” in which growing nutritious food crops is becoming increasing difficult. But exactly how?
Category: Sustainability
From Guest Blogger Izzie: Sharing Is Caring for the Environment
Generally speaking, what is the worst thing an average human being can do to the environment? Maintain wasteful habits. With Mother Nature only having a finite amount of resources, being wasteful in your use of any of them is potentially …
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Dark Day for Corporate Integrity
In a few hours, I’ll get into my 2009 VW Jetta diesel and make my way to Los Angeles for three meetings with some very interesting people associated with cleantech investments. I’m looking forward to all aspects of the day—except …
From Guest Blogger Izzie: How to be Environmentally Friendly at College
Moving away from your home is rarely an easy process. With the multitude of items that need to be relocated, on top of severing ties to the old house, it can be quite the upheaval. But moving away to university …
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From Guest Blogger Lana Hawkins: Small Green Steps for the Brighter Future
Did you know that if every used plastic bottle were to be recycled, we would keep 2 billion tons of plastic out of dump sites? Through simple actions like recycling, using non-toxic products, reducing the use of fossil fuels and …
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Celebrating the Commonality of Humankind
Today is the 75th anniversary of the discovery of the caves in Lascaux, France, whose art, drawn by our short, hairy ancestors, dates back approximately 17,000 years. According to popular art historian Sister Wendy, this is the proof that these primitive …
Decency Happens
I wrote a post yesterday to the effect that we live in a world in which the oil companies are systematically destroying the environment, all the while using their enormous wealth to prevent the citizenry from passing laws that would …
From Guest Blogger Alexandra Beane: Reduce Your Water Footprint At Home By Drinking Local
Reducing waste, recycling and reusing whenever possible is incredibly important in keeping our lands and oceans clean. At Wheels For Wishes, we run a car recycling program that helps to keep automobiles out of landfills. Instead, vehicles are recycled and …
Winning the Day for Humankind
Those looking for an uplifting experience can find one in today’s “poem for today” at the Writer’s Almanac. Not to oversimplify the complex morass we have before ourselves on planet Earth, but we seem to be caught in a struggle …
From Guest Blogger Izzie: How to Use Plants to Your Green Life Advantage
You would think anything involving plants was inherently environmentally friendly. If you are helping the planet by growing and maintain all those beautiful species in your back garden, it can’t be harmful, right? Well, it can be. Gardening has become …
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