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- Gardening Map Of Warming U.S. Has Plant Zones Moving North (26 comments)
- Local News | Longtime Monroe dairy farm now turns manure into money | Seattle Times Newspaper (19 comments)
- Upcycling's Upshot: How Urban Mushroom Farmers Turned Scavenging into a Business - Business - GOOD (9 comments)
- Calculator: Is Your Food Spending Normal? (31 comments)
- Israeli company brings 'solar windows' to Wisconsin (8 comments)
Gardening Map Of Warming U.S. Has Plant Zones Moving North
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:51 AM EST (NPR)
It's official: Gardeners and farmers can count on warmer weather. If that's you, it might be a good time to rethink those flower and vegetable beds for this year's growing season. That's the word from the U.S.
Local News | Longtime Monroe dairy farm now turns manure into money | Seattle Times Newspaper
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:25 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
MONROE — It's 5 a.m. at the Werkhoven Dairy — happy hour for Holsteins. From a 5,000-gallon black tank containing beer and wine, Andy Werkhoven adds two pounds of alcohol to the feed of each of the 1,000 milking cows. "Cow-bernet," he jokes.
Israeli company brings 'solar windows' to Wisconsin
Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:02 AM EST
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Antitrust Official Gets Stampeded By Big Beef : The Salt : NPR
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:54 PM EST (NPR)
Once again big industrial food wins and consumers and small farmers lose.
Dow and Monsanto Team Up On the Mother of All Herbicide Marketing Plans | Mother Jones
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:06 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
If the agrichemical companies manage to ram through the regulatory process a bunch of patches to Roundup Ready farming, then their herbicide-drenched vision will continue dominating huge swaths of prime farmland throughout the country for the forseable future.
Upcycling's Upshot: How Urban Mushroom Farmers Turned Scavenging into a Business - Business - GOOD
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:06 PM EST (good.is)
In 2009, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez were recent graduates of the University of California at Berkeley who had both been offered positions in consulting and investment banking.
Calculator: Is Your Food Spending Normal?
Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:12 AM EST (MotherJones.com)
Do you have any idea how much you spend on food? A few of us here at Mother Jones tracked our habits and were surprised (and appalled) to see the damage. Suspecting we weren't alone, we decided to do a little research.
Tiny amounts of alcohol dramatically extend a worm's life, but why?
Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:07 AM EST (PhysOrg.com)
Minuscule amounts of ethanol, the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, can more than double the life span of a tiny worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans, which is used frequently as a model in aging studies, UCLA biochemists report.
Antibiotics Breed Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Pigs : Discovery News
Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:38 AM EST (Discovery.com)
After giving pigs a low-dose of antibiotics for just two weeks, researchers detected a drastic rise in the number of E. coli bacteria in the guts of the animals. And those bacteria showed a large jump in resistance to antibiotics
Attack of the Mammoth Clones? Japan, Russia scientists see high chance of cloning mammoth
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:19 PM EST (MotherJones.com)
Always dreamed of riding a ranch where the deer and the mammoths play? Japanese and Russian scientists have found well-preserved thigh bones of the extinct mammoth, and will launch an effort next year to recreate the DNA of this long-lost mammal using the marrow of those bones.
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