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Making The Case For Resilient Design

Alex Wilson At Building Green Completes His Series on Resilient Building; It isn't like Doomsday Preppers, more like the Three Little Pigs.

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Walk Turkey's Beautiful 'Honey Road' This Summer for a Sweet Taste of Local...

An innovative eco-tourism project in northeast Turkey will take travelers along ancient nomadic routes to taste artisanal organic honey, meet local beekeepers, and enjoy spectacular scenery along the...

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Brewers Embrace Urban Hops from Backyard Farmers

Independent breweries in London may start buying hops from allotments, backyard farmers and anyone who will grow them.

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Here's What's Wrong With Our Food, But We Can't Fix It By Eating Alone

From factory farming to excessive sprays to the emotion-based marketing of food, a new video nails the shortcomings of our food system. But it offers only partial solutions.

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Occupy Our Food Supply on February 27, A Global Day Of Action

Today marks the launch of a massive day of action to reform our food supply. Here's why we all need to join in.

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7 Humane Solutions to Rat and Mice Infestations

These are the nice guy alternatives to poison and sticky traps.

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Small Farmers Create Jobs. Here's Why.

Research shows that small investments in local food systems can reap incredible returns, creating jobs and building resilient communities.

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Why Heirloom Grains Will Never Be a Commodity

A South CArolina farmer and entrepreneur is reviving commercially extinct grains. And he's telling the history of the South in the process.

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Help a Small Jam Producer Get a Commercial Kitchen

INNA Jam, a small organic jam producer in the Bay Area, is trying to raise funding for a commercial kitchen for themselves and other artisan food makers. Here's how you can help.

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"Eat More Kale" Crusader Fights Back Against Chick-fil-A's Lawsuit

Fast food giant Chick-fil-A is suing a Vermont t-shirt artist for alleged copyright infringment- but he's not taking it lying down.

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Are These the Tiniest Microfarms of Them All? New York City Artist Grows Food...

From chard on a chair to tat soi in a suitcase, artist Jenna Spevack is cultivating a tasty variety of organic microgreens in her furniture farms -- and visitors to her upcoming gallery show will be...

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60,000 sq.ft. Warehouse Grows Edible Mushrooms for Health and Ecology

A San Francisco gourmet mushroom entrepreneur takes us on a tour of his impressive operation.

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5 Easy Vegetables to Start From Seed in Your Garden

Think you can't grow your own vegetables from seed? Try these five easy seeds and develop that green thumb you didn't know you had.

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21 Lessons in Sustainability from the Great Depression

When the Great Recession started four years ago we looked at the lessons we could learn from the Great Depression; Time to dust them off.

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A Vertical Garden Feeds 10,000+ Visitors to Chicago O'Hare Airport

Between the fast food outlets and news stands, Chicago O'Hare Airport features an indoor urban garden growing food for its restaurants.

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Toronto's Brewers Plate Serves Seasonal Food and Drink at a Tough Time of Year

Event brings some of Toronto's best chefs together to show what they can do with very little

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Massive 100,000 s.f. Greenhouse Planned for Brooklyn Rooftop

A former Navy warehouse in Brooklyn is to become a home for the largest rooftop farm in the world.

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Farms Use 60 Times More Land Than Cities: It's Time to Develop Terraculture

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

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Survival Skills Are Still Sustainable, Even If You'll Never Need Them

A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.

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USDA Map: "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food"

A neat resource from the USDA that shows agency-supported projects and programs related to local and regional food systems.

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