Dirt Fights Climate Change Guaranteed

01Dec09

The UK’s Soil Association just put out a report 5 days before Copenhagen that farming’s biggest thing is in fighting climate change — putting carbon back into the soil and earth. Organic, chemical free farms have dirt that has 20-28% more carbon (the lego brick of all life) than your burned out non-organic, chemical fried farm. If the whole world turned to organic farming, you could cut greenhouse gas emissions (not to mention air pollution or acid rain) by 11%.

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Tags: biochar, carbon, climate change, COP15, copenhagen, dirt, greenhouse gas emissions, Soil Management

Building Worm Bins Brews Good Soil [Work Event #1]

19Jul09

FoodCycles will be constructing its first modular set of worm bins, sprout-salad-herb growing tables and runoff collection systems on Mon, Jul 27, Wed Jul 29 and Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at the FoodCycles greenhouse farm (70 Canuck Ave, map and directions http://bit.ly/1GYyWQ). Register ahead of time if you want to come by emailing foodcycles@gmail.com or call 416.845.0818. There will be 7 more 3-day building sessions to follow over the next few months so stay tuned!

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Tags: construction, design, volunteer, worm bins, worm composting

Get Rid of Climate Change Once & For All!

07Jun09

There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste – which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering – into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying it in the soil. Then you can start shifting really hefty quantities of carbon out of the system and pull the CO2 down quite fast.

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Tags: biochar, burning, charcoal, climate change, farming, gaia, global warming, james, lovelock, low heat, pyrolysis, sequestration, solution, storage, theory, world

NO GMO Shopping Guide!

23Feb09

Want to know what’s in your food? Not just what’s in your wallet (as Capital One commercials like to quip)? Take a look at the Institute for Responsible Technology’s “must have” guide to NON-GMO SHOPPING.

Filed under: Ethics, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), GMOs, technology   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Ethics, genetic engineering, gmo, modified, organisms, safety

Digital Project Teaches Eco-Friendly Farming

11Jan09

“Digital Green” is a project of Microsoft Research India working to speed sustainable farming techniques to large numbers of small and marginal farmers in India via modern information technology.

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Tags: Composting, database, developing nations, ecologically friendly, education, environmentally friendly, India, information technology, IT, knowledge sharing, learning, skill building, Soil Management, sustainable, sustainable agriculture, third world, Training