Get Down with DIRT! (the Movie)

07Jan10

FoodCycles (http://foodcycles.org) is hosting one of the first largest screenings of the award winning DIRT! the Movie in Toronto at Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St W; map) on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 (6:30-8:30 PM). Dirt! the movie tells the amazing story of the earth we stand on everyday and how we depend on it for life. In addition, FoodCycles is fundraising for its education work. Tickets will be available online and at the door on a sliding scale of $10-20. There will be a reception at 6:30 PM and the movie will start at 7 PM and end at 8:30 PM. You can buy sprouts, vegetable earrings or memberships during the reception.

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Tags: climate change, Compost, conflict, dirt, Dirt! the Movie, environmental impacts, film, Food, FoodCycles, land, microbes, microorganisms, Movies, Soil, Soil Management, video

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

Black Gold Bankruptcy: 4 Things to Beware Of

27Apr09

Wrecking good soil is like wrecking the foundations of your house. It’s costly and it’s dangerous (not to mention the possibility of having the roof collapse on your head). The destruction of healthy, nutritious soil costs US agriculture $20 billion a year [1]. Topsoil (the stuff you get when you jab your hand into the first 6 inches of dirt) is vanishing faster than you can say, “Duh” in a third of the world’s food growing land.[1]

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Tags: Agriculture, chemical, Compost, conventional, crisis, environmental, erosion, organic, Soil Management, tillage, topsoil, waste

Peas in the Garden, Bones in the Soil

22Apr09

Anne Raver poetically describes soil and growing peas in Maryland and Sunny discusses how soil is a unique story that can be quite ‘telling’.

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Tags: fertility, Gardening, peas, planting, Soil, Soil Management

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