How hip are farmers? Ones that think outside the box? Support their community, environment, economy and provide creative angles of community engagement and education? One New England green thumb has put the cool alarm on the world of the farm. This is the story of one Erik Andrus, a farmer from Vermont. An old-fashioned beer [...]
(Beyond Pesticides, July 21, 2011) For the first time, a federal agency has officially recognized that the loss of a species is related to climate change; the species at risk, the whitebark pine, faces a barrage of threats, including invasive diseases and insects which have not previously been able to thrive in the tree’s cold [...]
(Beyond Pesticides, July 20, 2011) With flavors like “tangelo orange twist,” and “sugar lemon fizz,” popular body care chain, Bath and Body Works, has marketed an entire line of antibacterial body care products to teens and young adults. Unfortunately, these products contain the toxic hormone disruptor and water contaminant, triclosan, which could be hazardous to [...]
Three elephants were tragically electrocuted at a wildlife sanctuary in northern India, after they uprooted a utility pole and became entangled in its wires. The wild elephant population of India is estimated at about 26,000. The charred remains of the elephants caught in the wires were discovered on Friday at the Dudhwa National Park in [...]
After its nuclear disaster, Japan is looking into other sources of energy, including geothermal energy which uses heat from the earth’s core to generate electricity. The virtue of nuclear power was put under inquisition after earthquakes and tsnuamis rocked Japan last March leaving the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in dire peril, with workers fearing for [...]
This year, I swear, I’ll get all the space I have access to planted. Every year I reclaim a couple more plots from the weeds that rule them, but every year I have to reconcile myself to the fact that...