Dear EarthTalk: I’ve been hearing more and more references to the need to clean up our agricultural practices for reasons pertaining to health, food quality, even global warming. What are the major environmental issues today associated with agriculture?
What amazes many environmental advocates to this day is how the widespread adoption of synthetic chemical pesticides, herbicides [...]
Renewable sources such as solar and wind could supply up to 80 percent of the world’s energy needs by 2050 and play a significant role in fighting global warming, a top climate panel concluded Monday.
It may not be quite the renewable energy powerhouse that Germany and China are, but California will be well on its [...]
A new biomass power station has been given the green light for a site in Teesside in the UK. This 49 megawatt station designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick should be able to power at least 50,000 homes using palm kernel shells, which are a by-product of palm oil plantations. This is normally a waste [...]
It’s another book giveaway here at The Good Human, and this time it’s for a copy of the book Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World. With obesity rates rocketing, concerns about the health implications of a diet composed of drive-through and processed convenience foods rising, and [...]
Check your local listings, as one of the best (if not the best) food documentaries, Food, Inc., will be airing again on PBS on August 9, 2011. It will be shown at 10pm EST:
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been [...]
In case you were wondering what the cost comparison would be between buying regular old gasoline for your vehicle or plugging it into an electric socket at home each night, a new study from Northeast Group (via Autoblog Green) has your answer; the plug-in electric is cheaper — way cheaper. As in 1/10 of the [...]
I just finished reading an article over at Mother Earth News titled “Start a 1-Acre, Self-Sufficient Homestead” which made me want to hurry up and find some land to settle on in the near future, so I figured I would share it with you guys in case you were interested in reading it. The article [...]
