Here’s practical new research – or “re-discovery,” as it probably goes back to ancient times – that everyone can use in their own garden to reduce the costs of buying pesticides as well as increase yields and improve the health of your garden … and the food you’ll be eating.
Here are some guidelines about commonly-used pesticides that are proving quite harmful to birds and bees and, consequently, food production.
Tom Philpott
MOTHER NEWS
As spring approaches, US farmers are gearing up to plant about 180 million acres in corn and soybeans—a combined land mass nearly twice the size of California, mostly in the Midwest.… Keep reading
Here’s an example of where science has produced a product that will help solve one of the biggest problems in sustainability: Finding a source for high-quality potable drinking water. Given the problems many communities are having with contamination of their urban water quality – such as problems with lead or arsenic or mercury – this filtering system may be a huge benefit to millions … even those who live by the sea.
February 15th, 2018
Among graphene’s long list of superpowers, filtering water may be one of the most directly beneficial.… Keep reading
If we think about the different aspects of sustainability – heating, cooling, air quality, electrical power, waste management, etc. – the most critical one has to be food. In the history of civilizations on our planet, loss of food resources was key to the extinction of those civilizations. We now have a global civilization, and an increasing amount of starvation and malnutrition is already happening
Those of us in countries that have an ample food supply can’t even imagine walking into a supermarket and seeing empty shelves.… Keep reading
Here’s a recent report that’s not one of those immediately apparent events of phenomena, but may have huge consequences for our survival. I personally don’t like to get into the typical “fear mongering” reporting, but this is a major problem and it is solvable … even with things we can do locally.
Three-quarters of flying insects in nature reserves
across Germany have vanished in 25 years, with
serious implications for all life on Earth, scientists say.… Keep reading
