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Health knowledge made personal
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Health knowledge made personal
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Grant aids quest to bring fresh food to inner city (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Sun Oct 05 21:21:36 PDT 2008
Will Allen was cutting heads of lettuce in a farm field when his cell phone rang.
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Soil health trials target biological input response (North Queensland Register)
Sun Oct 05 21:38:46 PDT 2008
On-farm demonstration trials using biological management practices to improve soil health on cattle grazing and farming holdings in Central Queensland will get underway this summer.
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Experiment demonstrates 110 years of sustainable agriculture (EurekAlert!)
Mon Sep 29 09:01:13 PDT 2008
( American Society of Agronomy ) Researchers have shown that a plot of land on the campus of Auburn University that has been maintained by a century old practice of sustainable farming can produce similar cotton crops to those using other methods. This 110 year old continuous field experiment, ca...
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Jewish celebrants embrace eco-friendly foods (Bradenton Herald)
Mon Sep 29 10:41:32 PDT 2008
More Jewish celebrants are keeping kosher and keeping up with the latest food trend this High Holiday season - buying eco-friendly, organic and locally grown kosher staples, a movement some are calling 'eco-kosher.'
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Health Benefits of Maple Abound (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Wed Oct 01 00:01:00 PDT 2008
All-Natural Sweetener is Low on Glycemic Index, High on Taste; Contains Key Minerals and Is Produced Sustainably, Domestically.
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Who says that good nutrition means eating animal fats? Weston A. Price (Press of Atlantic City)
Mon Sep 29 00:33:26 PDT 2008
WASHINGTON - Eating healthy on the road can be tricky for Sally Fallon. But if the founder of the Washington nutrition nonprofit group Weston A. Price Foundation ever gets desperate, she can always hit a gas station for a bag of pork cracklings: "It's often the only real thing to eat," she says.
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What is your dinner doing to the climate? (New Scientist)
Thu Sep 25 15:00:30 PDT 2008
Your shopping basket is spewing greenhouse gases. But don't worry, you can easily cut out the culprits, says (full text available to subscribers)
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Meet Dave, the Man Who Never Takes Out the Trash (Time Magazine)
Mon Sep 22 01:31:39 PDT 2008
The average American throws out 1,700 lbs. of garbage a year. David Chameides has tossed out zero lbs. (Actually, he produces garbage, but he just keeps it in the house.)
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Healing the earth (The Star)
Sat Sep 20 16:52:15 PDT 2008
Healing Mother Earth through novel agricultural practices.
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Experts convert sugar into diesel (The Times of India)
Fri Sep 19 13:57:50 PDT 2008
WASHINGTON: Two separate research teams have claimed to have converted sugar from agricultural waste and non-food plants into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and a range of other valuable chemicals.
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