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Self-Sufficient Biovillages Live Energy-Independent
Germany is leading the way with "biovillages," towns that generate all their heating energy and electricity from farm waste, manure, crop leavings, wood chips and the like. The setup not only saves the inhabitants tons of money, the towns produce income by selling surplus power to the national grid. Read More...
Urban Farmers May Yet Feed Africa
As drought banishes farmers from their land, rural people become urban, and find it hard to buy enough food. Increasing numbers of the urban poor are starting to grow their own food, often producing enough to sell. It is a trend becoming world-wide. Read More...
NY City To Ease Building Regulations for Green Building Elements
New York City is preparing to allow a broad range of exceptions to its stringent building code for improvements to buildings that will make them healthier and cheaper to run while emitting less carbon. The City calls the new rules "Green Zone" regulations. Read More...
Two-faced Testimonies on Two Regulatory Fronts
While telling Congress that EPA's clean air and clean water rules will destroy the economy and their company while costing thousands of jobs, the same companies tell their banks and investors that the same rules will either have no effect or will have an effect that cannot yet be determined. The rest of us... Read More...
Colorado Sells 500M Gallons of Colorado River for Fracking
500 million gallons for fracking may not seem a lot when the region is expecting to be 300 billion gallons short of drinking water in the near future, but the picture of Colorado selling the water for fracking on its Front Range, where most of its biggest towns and cities are, even as the... Read More...
Resurrected Grain Beats Soy Beans on Most Counts
Sustainable farming is getting a new crop from a grain, lupin, long used primarily as animal feed. Lupin is native to northern Europe, does not require spraying with Roundup to survive, and has more protein and less fat than soy beans. Read More...
More Uncompensated Environmental Damage in Nigeria
After making $7.2 billion from July to September, and letting an oil spill gush for weeks before stopping it, Shell offered the affected communities 50 bags of rice, beans, sugar and tomatoes as disaster relief. You have to ask, does anyone in the oil industry have any sense of shame? Read More...