The Return of Agent Orange?

Sign the petition to stop #AgentOrange #GMOs: Within a week, the #USDA could approve #Dow’s new “Enlist” brand #corn, genetically engineered to resist massive doses of the herbicide 2,4-D http://tiny.cc/uoaxow This is suicidal.

My FB posts from the Permaculture Activist group

See these and much more at https://www.facebook.com/groups/PermacultureActivist/
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‎"A study in Cincinnati finds that young people prosecuted for delinquency are four times more likely than the general population to have high levels of lead in their bones." Hmmmm.

The Grime Behind the Crime

Poisoned Planet: Doubling of Ocean Mercury Levels Threatens Global Health

Lead and Crime: Assessing the Evidence

Does Lead Paint Produce More Crime Too?
"Just One Lick": The Hidden Lead That Could Sicken Your Kids_________________________________________

Fracking the Amish | OnEarth MagazineA bleak December sky hangs low over rural Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Here, in areas populated by large Amish families, open fields roll toward the horizon uninterrupted by electrical wires and telephone poles. Stepping from a car that seems grossly out of place in this 19th century landscape, Ca...

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The FDA Is Out to Lunch | OnEarth Magazinewww.onearth.org

All of his life, Paul Schwarz had been active and healthy. When his family imagined the various ways the decorated veteran of World War II might eventually die, they never...

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Restoration Agriculture at the University of Illinois via ASAP Illinois :: Department of Natural Res

nres.illinois.edu

This spring students at the University of Illinois initiated a study of permaculture design at the Sustainable Student Farm on the South Farms of the Urbana, Illinois Campus. The study is called Restoration Agriculture, and the goal of the project is to compare the production of traditional corn and...

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Of the 1,236 documented "community gardens," recognized by various groups throughout the city [Chicago], it turned out only 160 – or 13 percent – were really growing food (according to aerial images from June of 2010). But trolling over the city, frame by frame on Google Earth, Taylor found what looked like 4,494 possible sites of urban agriculture, many of which appeared to be small residential gardens. Their total mass adds up to 264,181 square meters of urban agriculture, much of it on the city’s South and West sides and far northwest where minority and immigrant communities are located.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/01/mapping-urban-agriculture-sky/4346/

Mapping Urban Agriculture From the Skywww.theatlanticcities.com

Google Earth could help quantify urban gardens much better than advocates on the ground.

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At the international Permaculture Your Campus Conference, directors of the award-winning UMass Permaculture Initiative will give an introduction to permaculture in a campus setting and share the value that it has created for the University of Massachusetts system and local community.

Participants will learn how to develop a successful permaculture initiative for their campus and will leave with their own individualized action plan for their own campus permaculture initiative.
http://www.umasspermacultureconference.com/

Permaculture Your Campus Conference 2013www.umasspermacultureconference.com

Information about the Permaculture Your Campus Conference

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Bustan Qaraaqa

Bustan Qaraaqa project work on the farm and in the community with the Bedouin and the Farmers promoting and implementing sustainable environmental managemnt and alternative technologies

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ACRES USA Conference Report | Growing Food Security in Albertawww.foodsecurityalberta.org

At the start of December, Vance and I had the opportunity to travel to Louisville, Kentucky for the 2012 ACRES USA Conference. We’d heard about this conference from a few of our farming mentors who have gone several times and have talked about how important its become in their farm journey.

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MEGGA-watt? The Rise of The Food Garage…! | Growing Food Security in Albertawww.foodsecurityalberta.org

(A nine part blog in support of the MEGGA-watt? Project entry in The Carbon Farmer's "Face Your Footprint" contest – please vote daily until Feb 24 – http://bit.ly/Tf4a44)

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Nibbling away at the local edges of consumer culture. Try this in your town!

Massachusetts Town Bans Single-Use Water Bottles

The new law addresses the huge amount of waste created and the greenhouse gases from fossil fuel production.

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Poland bans genetically modified maize and potatoes | The Raw Storywww.rawstory.com

Poland on Wednesday imposed new bans on the cultivation of certain genetically modified strains of maize and potatoes, a day after an EU required green light for GM crops took effect.

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Farmers Told To Buy Insurance If They Don’t Want To Get Sued By Corporations

thinkprogress.org

Every year for the past 13 years, biotechnology giant Monsanto Company has sued ...