February 2012
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Good Food Festival Saturday, March 17, 2012 →
From Farm to School at the Good Food Festival Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012 Location: UIC Forum, 725 West Roosevelt Road Chicago, IL The Good Food Festival and Conference celebrates leaders, businesses, and individuals that sustain the burgeoning, locally-driven Good Food Movement. Healthy Schools Campaign, Seven Generations Ahead, Illinois Farm to School Network, and FamilyFarmed.org will...
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Fellow Chicagoans! City Wide Seed Swap! We need... →
from dusk till dawn: What We're Talking About When... →
stay-human:
Must read for a little clarity and comprehensible discussion about all this madness surrounding Iran.
docshoe:
stay-human and I have been shooting messages back and forth, chewing over the possibility of an American intervention in Iran. I’m a burnt-out Iraq vet here…
MIT: China's pollution costs $112B in annual... →
climateadaptation:
“China’s unprecedented growth is carrying a steadily steeper price tag as its air pollution hikes the nation’s health care costs, finds a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although China has made substantial progress in reducing its air pollution, MIT researchers say its economic impact has jumped from $22 billion in 1975 to $112 billion in 2005....
TransCanada Renewing Request to Build Keystone... →
Watchfuckyeahpermaculture:
DIRT! The movie (full version).
DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility—from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. The real change lies in our notion of what dirt is. http://dirtthemovie.org/
“Babaamr is facing a genocide right now. I will never forgive you for your...”
– One of Syrian citizen journalist Rami Al-Sayed’s last messages. The 27-year-old Al-Sayed, who bravely documented what was going on in the wartorn city of Homs, was actively targeted by the regime’s shelling according to activists. He ran a live feed of the bombardment of his city, out of the...
GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate... →
“After legal battles and a failed attempt to preserve the land as open space, the...”
– http://grist.org/locavore/farming-the-burbs/ (via sabelmouse)
Wonklife: Mitt Romney's budget in less than 150... →
Money comes into the federal government through taxes and bonds. The vast majority of it is then spent on old-people programs, poor-people programs, and defense.
Mitt Romney is promising that taxes will go down, defense spending will go up, and old-people programs won’t change for this…
steven foster & roger caras - a field guide to...
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
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Cyril G. Hopkins, "Shall We Use 'Complete'...
“The real question is, shall the farmer pay ten times as much as he ought to pay for food to enrich his soil? Shall be buy nitrogen at 45 to 50 cents a pound when the air above every acre contains 70 millions pounds of free nitrogen? Shall he buy potassium at 5 to 20 cents a pound and apply 4 pounds per acre when his plowed soil already contains 30,000 pounds of potassium per acre, with...
equipntrip:
UK Traveler’s tweets get him & his friend banned from the USA | Travelllll.com @Travelllll http://ow.ly/9doDg travel
my god
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Plant Roots and Soil Life: Mutual Dependence in...
Root exudates create a booming economy in the root zone, the area right around the roots of plants and their mycorrhizal associates. Only a few millimeters to a few centimeters thick, the root zone contains the most life of any part of the soil: ten to fifty times the numbers of bacteria and many times the amount of fungi of soils outside the root zone. Between eleven thousand and fifteen...
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goals for 2012, on and off the farm
goals for 2012, on and off the farm no refrigeration: zeer pot for perishables, unwashed eggs (good for up to 5 weeks unrefrigerated), smoking meats no mosquitoes anywhere, no codling moths in orchard: bat houses permanent (mobile) residence: DIY Sioux-style 18-foot diameter Tipi (although I may have my mother stitch the canvas and lining; not my forte) raw milk, weed control, best friends: nubian...
Experts judge Obama's corporate tax proposal
wonklife:
Earlier Wednesday, the White House released its proposed principles for overhauling the corporate tax code — bringing the rate down to 28 percent, establishing a minimum tax, and expanding credits for R&D and manufacturing. It’s not a plan so much as a framework. But we asked a variety of experts what they think of the idea. Here are their e-mailed responses:
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75% of Americans will be overweight by 2020, the... →
“Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun...”
– Edward Abbey (via consciousbeing)
