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Airport Hires Goats for Vegetation Management

The Chicago Department of Aviation (CAD) has hired a herd of goats to provide sustainable vegetation management at O’Hare International Airport. The city’s department of aviation   awarded a $100,000 contract to Central Commissary Holdings, which owns the small grazing herd and operates several restaurants including Chicago’s ... keep reading

Written by Environmental Leader this month, about Agriculture & Food, Corporate Citizenship, Farming, Food, Innovation, Tourism, Travel

World Bank Sounds Alarm on Climate Change

The World Bank ( hardly a radical organisation! ) says climate change is a fundamental threat to sustainable economic development and the fight against poverty.  It is concerned that without bold action now, the warming planet threatens to put prosperity out of reach of millions and roll back decades of development.  The ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Sustainability

Global Food Prices Continue Increasing

Continuing a decade-long increase, global food prices rose 2.7 percent in 2012, reaching levels not seen since the 1960s and 1970s but still well below the price spike of 1974. Between 2000 and 2012, the World Bank global food price index increased 104.5 percent, at an average annual ... keep reading

Written by Celsias last month, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Food

Dry Summer Prompts Caution About Honey

  As the long, dry summer continues, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)  is warning that drought conditions in some parts of the country could lead to higher than usual levels of tutin in honey.   Tutin contamination, which causes toxicity in honey, is often found in late-season honey harvested in the ... keep reading

Written by Celsias last month, about Agriculture & Food, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Health, Industry & Business

Biochar Slashes Bioenergy Soil Emissions

Adding charcoal to land used to grow bioenergy crops can greatly increase their overall benefit in helping cut our greenhouse-gas emissions, scientists have shown. Applying so-called 'biochar' before planting energy crops can cut soil greenhouse-gas emissions by around a third. Soils are among the biggest sources of UK emissions, and ... keep reading

Written by Planet Earth Online last month, about Agriculture & Food, Carbon Sequestration, Farming, Food, Industry & Business, Innovation

Droughts and Policies to Address Them

Drought has dramatically increased as a consequence of climate change. Most countries react to it only after it has occurred, but don’t have national policies to prevent it. The high-level meeting on national drought policies in Geneva this week is trying to match scientific knowledge with political awareness.  “Drought ... keep reading

Written by Celsias in March, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Farming, Food, Water, Weather

The World According to Monsanto

A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. There’s nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established ... keep reading

Written by Films for Action in March, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Farming, Food, Industry & Business, Intellectual Property, Law (1 comment)

Modern Agriculture is Stressing HoneyBees -Let's Go Native

Honeybees are in trouble – a stressful lifestyle and an unhealthy diet are being compounded by mite attacks – but we needn’t panic about pollination. Australia has many native bee (and other pollinator) species that could be taking care of business, if we only took better care of them. What do ... keep reading

Written by Manu Saunders/Chas Sturt Uni in February, about Agriculture & Food, biological farming, Chemicals, Environment & Wildlife, Food, Science, Sustainability

Worried About Great Barrier Reef Water Pollution ? Look At Mining , Not Agriculture

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is both a national marine park and a World Heritage Area. But next to the reef, a catchment of 400,000km2 is almost completely developed for agriculture, predominantly beef grazing and sugarcane, horticulture, cotton and grains cropping. How does this development affect the integrity of ... keep reading

Written by Jon Brodie/The Conversation in February, about Agriculture & Food, Coal & Oil, Environment & Wildlife, Politics & Government, Pollution

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