My Dad is a train fanatic, he loves trains, has loved them since he was a kid. Lately he has been telling me about the incredible value of transporting things…
Last year an article in the Economist pointed out some of the complexities and contradictions within the organic, Fair Trade, local food movement. The article is well written and provocative,…
A quick technorati search this morning gave me a general idea of an issue that is on many people’s minds: agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas…
As the debate in Congress heats up over the revision and passage of the Farm Bill, the Democratic Congress is trying to find ways to pander and pork-barrel their way…
Talk of a food revolution often obscures the very serious challenges that we face as we attempt to reinvent our agricultural systems. Here in New Mexico, we have the highest…
Continuing on the idea of agricultural wastes, we move to pyrolysis, a term used to describe the conversion of biomass (and non-biological waste products, as well) into constituent elements by…
Agricultural technologies that turn waste products into something useful have been absent from farming systems for too long now. Weeds, manure, bagasse, corn cobs, shells and husks…these are a few…
Over the past century, we have seen massive loss of agricultural biodiversity, in terms of both species and varieties. The statistics on biodiversity loss in varietal strains are staggering. According…
I’ve been MIA in the blogosphere for well over a month now. No excuses, just haven’t felt the need to be blogging lately. Its certainly true that the global warming…
The Regional Center for the Study of Rural Alternatives (CREAR), lies tucked away in the mountainous community of Rio Limpio, along the Dominican border with Haiti. CREAR is a small…
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