A high school chemistry teacher has an interesting (and cheesy) open letter to his students in Energy Bulletin. He takes stock of a changing world, and makes some interesting predictions:
“Some of you will grow food. — Probably a lot of you, actually. Even those of you who do other things as your [...]
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New review on carnivorous flora suggests that a number of plants previously thought innocent may actually be murderous.
“We may be surrounded by many more murderous plants than we think,” said botanist Mark Chase, Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England.
That’s [...]
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The sun always shines. Pink cows produce strawberry milk. Soybeans take two days to grow and ripen. Something is not right. It’s too clean. Nothing smells. Coffee bean grows next to squash. Millions of first-time farmers plant new crops every week. And—finally!—people [...]
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By Sara Novak, TreeHugger
Slow Food is the organization that first brought me to sustainable eating. It showed me how to enjoy the experience of eating the best in local foods. I learned that often times local foods are easier on the planet than organic if [...]
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