The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees’ ability to navigate
The Ecologist reports:
Common crop pesticides have been shown for the first time to seriously harm bees by damaging their renowned ability to navigate home.
The new research strongly links the pesticides to the serious decline in honey bee numbers [...]
FindAComposter.com is a free directory of composting facilities throughout North America, created and managed by BioCycle magazine and sponsored by the Biodegradable Products Institute.
http://findacomposter.com/
The US Ccomposting Council’s Annual Conference and Exhibition is the most widely attended composting and organics recycling show in North America. The 19th Annual Conference and Trade Show will be held January 24-27, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara/San Jose, California.
http://www.compostingcouncil.org/conference/
Will Allen, founder of Growing Power, shown here in a photo from the New York Times, reflects on how we can change http://www.growingpower.org/blog/archives/697:
As I travel this country, I am filled with hope. I have seen young, middle-aged and elderly people taking control of the food systems in their communities. I see people growing food on [...]
Categories include Education, Urban Renewal, Feeding the Hungry, Restoration. Mike Devlin of Camden, New Jersey, America’s poorest small city, received the grand prize .
For 25 years, Mike has been bringing community gardens and educational programs to the residents of Camden, NJ. He has helped build community gardens across the city, created a children’s garden, developed educational [...]
Employees getting exercise, eating healthier foods, saving money: Win/Win/Win.
“From the end of June through the beginning of October, we’re harvesting once a week for our office delivery, and sometimes we harvest twice a week,” said Liz Morris Otto, who owns the “Dude Ranch” land.
Those who work regularly on the crop get first pick, but every [...]
Much better use for a car! Thanks to Lynn Dirk for passing this along:
Creative urban and container gardening is transforming the way we view outdoor spaces.By Brian Clark Howard
via Mobile Gardens – Urban Gardening – Movable Gardens – The Daily Green.
Alachua County, in partnership with Florida Organic Growers, Abundant Edible Landscapes, UF Young Entrepreneurs in Leadership and Sustainability, and the Downtown Rotary Club, will plant an organic demonstration garden Saturday, July 10, 2010, beginning 10 a.m., at the County Administration Building on the corner of University Ave. and Main St. in Downtown Gainesville. The public [...]
We’re asking for support from Gainesville and broader Alachua County community to assist us in raising funds to build a garden in the Porters Community on the corner of Depot Ave. and SW 2nd St. All you have to do is visit this site and vote for our project http://www.justmeans.com/contestidea?ideaid=NDU3
If the project gets the most [...]
A garden that started out as a project of a few FIU environmental studies majors and their teachers has gained recognition from federal agriculture officials.
A University of South Florida Ph.D. candidate has discovered that a commonly used fungicide is lethal to three species of Florida’s frogs, even at concentrations previously assumed to be safe.
A practical guide to how we can reduce our oil dependency – as well as save money and enhance our lives – by growing our own food. Sent to us by local Green Drinker Ed Brown. Thanks!
US Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama's pick for the Supreme Court, is the most recent in a long line of pro-biotech Obama appointees, including USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, National Institute of Food and Agriculture director Roger Beachy, FDA senior food safety adviser Michael Taylor, USTR Agricultural Negotiator Islam Siddiqui, and USAID director Rajiv Shah.
More [...]
Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.
After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on [...]
You are invited to participate in a Native Herb Walk and Workshop with Master Herbalist Dui Bhuja, (Darrell Martin), founder of Blue Boy Herb Company and speaker at many National Herb Conferences.
* Learn about local plants in our own yards and fields, mistaken as weeds, which are actually medicinal and culinary [...]
For those who enjoyed seeing this film at the Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival or elsewhere and for those who’ve yet to see it:
Just this year Health Canada, the equivalent of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced it plans to ban the sale and application of all weed’n feed type products across Canada by [...]
There is a huge interest in “growing your own”; with people wanting to get more in touch with where their food comes from, as well as staying active and spending more time outdoors.About 300,000 gardeners in England already have allotments but demand still outstrips supply and the Government is therefore determined to support new and [...]
We are hosting an open house at the Ethnoecology Garden on Saturday, November 14th from 9AM-1PM. We are focusing on discussing a number of activities in the garden related to a number of topics including:
-Composting
-Biodiversity
-Raised bed
-Biomass management
-Overwintering plants
We will have some light refreshments provided by the Society. Feel free to bring along any caloric contributions. [...]
The Civic Media Center will host a video and discussion on the topic of urban and suburban “backyard” chicken culture on Saturday, November 14th at 7pm.
via Mad City Chickens | Civic Media Center.
The film will be followed by Q & A and discussion with co-producer/directors Tashai Lovington and Robert Lughai of Tarazod Films, who will [...]
Remember the secret life of plants? There’s more going on with this form of life than we realize; far greater implications even than this article suggests, seems to me:
“Newswise — Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings, and researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered how.
The ID system [...]
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