Stacey Mitchell, Institute for Local Self Reliance
Agriculture
Posted inClimate Disaster
No Maple Syrup by 2100
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Posted inToMl
Drummondville Petition Victory Helps Front Yard Gardens Survive
Cause leader Roger Doiron set out to reverse a Canadian town’s ban on front yard gardens by creating a petition, acquiring signatures and support, and … Drummondville Petition Victory Helps Front Yard Gardens SurviveRead more
Posted inToMl
12 Innovations to Combat Drought, Improve Food Security, and Stabilize Food Prices
Soaring temperatures and low precipitation could not occur at a worse time for many farmers in the United States. Intensifying drought conditions are affecting corn … 12 Innovations to Combat Drought, Improve Food Security, and Stabilize Food PricesRead more
Posted inToMl / Water
World Is Over-Using Underground Water Reserves for Agriculture
The world is depleting underground water reserves faster than they can be replenished due to over-exploitation, according to scientists in Canada and the Netherlands. The … World Is Over-Using Underground Water Reserves for AgricultureRead more
Posted inFukushima / ToMl
Fukushima rice above threshold for cesium
Rice grown by a farmer in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, returned a radioactive cesium reading of 110 becquerels per kilogram, exceeding the maximum of 100, the … Fukushima rice above threshold for cesiumRead more
Posted inOccupy Wall Street / ToMl
Occupying farmland
On Earth Day—April 22, 2012—about 200 people, accompanied by children in strollers, dogs, rabbits, chickens, and carrying hundreds of pounds of compost and at least … Occupying farmlandRead more
Posted inFertilizer / Greenhouse gas
Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic … Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphereRead more
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How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer Atrazine
Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, recently unsealed as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta, reveal how the global chemical company’s … How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer AtrazineRead more