Once obscured in the back aisle sections of large grocery stores, wide-ranging assortments of fruits and vegetables are now the first thing a potential customer sees as they enter: you can’t miss the mushrooming displays of organic freshness. Consumers are continually becoming well-educated about the impending health risks linked to junk food. Meticulous modern day [...]
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, located in South Asia at the eastern end of the Himalayas, and often referred to as the “The Happiest Place on Earth”, will soon have another reason for keeping that title: the country will be the first to go 100 percent organic in its farming methods. According to Natural Society, [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I’ve been hearing more and more references to the need to clean up our agricultural practices for reasons pertaining to health, food quality, even global warming. What are the major environmental issues today associated with agriculture? What amazes many environmental advocates to this day is how the widespread adoption of synthetic chemical pesticides, [...]
Check your local listings, as one of the best (if not the best) food documentaries, Food, Inc., will be airing again on PBS on August 9, 2011. It will be shown at 10pm EST: In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has [...]
Permaculture is a system of design, to enable us to grow the maximum amount of food in a given area. Permaculture employs techniques which maximize efficiency and promote interconnectedness between human needs and natureĀ – Olds College, April 2009 2nd Edition ENVI715 The word permacultureis derived from permanent agriculture and permanent culture. Bill Mollison and [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What is “vertical farming” and how is it better for the environment? “Vertical farming” is a term coined by Columbia University professor of environmental health and microbiology Dickson Despommier to describe the concept of growing large amounts of food in urban high-rise building – or so-called “farmscrapers.” According to the vision first developed [...]
