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Six Steps to Creating Your Own Organic Permaculture Garden
Organic gardening avoids the use of chemicals to make plants grow or protect them from insects, relying instead on natural gardening principles used for thousands of years. Permaculture organic gardening goes a step further and also emphasizes growing plants sustainably, working with rather than against the grain of the natural environment. Permaculture organic gardening is [...]
What is Biodynamics?
What is Biodynamic agriculture? In seeking an answer let us pose the further question: Can the Earth heal itself, or has the waning of the Earths vitality gone too far for this? No matter where our land is located, if we are observant we will see sure signs of illness in trees, in our cultivated [...]
Growing In Harmony With Nature
A Permaculture Farm: The Perennial Revolution of Oikos Tree Crops A Michigan permaculture farm defies the agricultural status quo by growing in harmony with nature. Hidden within the rolling forested hills and vineyard-covered valleys of southwest Michigan, on the outskirts of a town that embodies rural Midwest culture, is a tiny farm that, if not [...]
Seeds Hold The Key To A GMO-Free Food Future
Seeds hold the key to a GMO-free food future Want to get GMOs out of our food? Start with the seed. It sounds simple, but non-GM seed breeders and farmers face many challenges in their efforts to provide organic food. A single food seed can be as tiny as a grain of sand. Yet many [...]
Community Solar Gardens on the Rise!
Would You Pay for Solar on Someone Else’s Land? Community Solar Gardens on the Rise With even mainstream home builders offering solar options, and some tantalizing hints that solar could be as cheap as coal by 2015, interest in solar for homeowners looks set to rise in coming years. But what about renters, or those [...]
Water = Fuel
New alloy could split water to make fuel A team of Kentucky scientists has found a way to ‘tweak’ an inexpensive semiconductor to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight. Through theoretical computations, they’ve demonstrated that an alloy formed by a two percent substitution of antimony in gallium nitride has the right electrical properties to enable [...]
The Future of Food (Documentary)
The Future of Food There is a food revolution happening in America today. People are seeking out farmers’ markets, organic produce and good restaurants. At the same time, our food supply is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations. Over the past 10 years, with the advent of genetic engineering and the massive expansion of pesticide companies, [...]
Medicinal Plant, Cannabis (Video)
PBS: Cannabis is Effective at Treating Multiple Conditions Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. Article Content From: YouTube & PBS
Tectonic Weaponry
Pentagon Quake Nightmare: Fukushima on the Mississippi In May, the federal government simulated an earthquake so massive, it killed 100,000 Midwesterners instantly, and forced more than 7 million people out of their homes. At the time, National Level Exercise 11 went largely unnoticed; the scenario seemed too far-fetched — states like Illinois and Missouri are [...]
A Light Bulb That Transmits Wireless Data? (Video)
Wireless Data From Every Light Bulb Article Content From: TED Talks
