Soil

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How to Green Your Church Lawn

Here are 8 tips on how to make your church, synagogue, mosque (or school, town hall, or residential) lawn into an organic paradise.

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Why our throwaway economy is on a collision course with the earth's geological limits

The stresses in our early twenty-first century civilization take many forms--social, economic, environmental, and political. One distinctly unhealthy and visible illustration of all four is the swelling flow of garbage associated with a throwaway economy.

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The Homestead: DIY Green Manure for Garden Soil Enhancement

Fall has arrived on The Homestead. There are beautiful fall colors, cool temperatures, pumpkins, squash, gourds; and for those of us in the U.S., Halloween!

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Urban Farming: Something for Everyone

If you've got a plot of land, however small, you can grow your own food - and you don't even need to know how to do it.

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How to test your garden soil

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, and Mark Highland, from Organic Mechanic Soil, test the soil in Patti's raised bed garden.

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Carbon Negative Cement

According to the EPA , the cement industry was responsible for 829 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, or approximately 3.4% of global emissions in 2000. Today, that number is reported to be as high as 5%.

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Climate Disobedience: Is a New 'Seattle' in the Making?

In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England.

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Urgent Action Needed as Arctic Ice Melts

The crew of the Arctic Sunrise in Greenland. The Arctic Sunrise reached 'the ice bridge' in the Robeson channel, at 82.4 North, near the border between Greenland and Canada.

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Reaching Drought Stricken Communities in Madagascar

As world attention shifts towards environmental issues, the effects of climate change are being felt on the island nation of Madagascar.