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The Homestead: DIY Green Manure for Garden Soil Enhancement

The Homestead: DIY Green Manure for Garden Soil Enhancement 1 comment | August 19, 2009 | Posted in Environment and Society

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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Composting: Turning Gloom and Doom into Productive Opportunities

Composting: Turning Gloom and Doom into Productive Opportunities August 19, 2009 | Posted in Environment and Society

So, being the good granola boy that I am, I was sniffing around the Off-Grid.net for the latest and greatest in grid free goodness (yeah okay, so you can have a fetish for solar panels, kill me). And being a big fan of Wretha, I read her recent post on gloom and doom. Snip snip…

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Guerilla Gardening Sweeps, Sows, and Tills the World

Guerilla Gardening Sweeps, Sows, and Tills the World August 19, 2009 | Posted in Lawn & Garden

Flowers, greens and gardens have often been noted to not only promote well-being and health (think flower remedies, cleaner air and the therapeutic effects noted by avid gardeners), but also to thwart crime and mayhem in communities which partake in community garden projects.

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Urban Farming: Something for Everyone

Urban Farming: Something for Everyone August 19, 2009 | Posted in Lawn & Garden

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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Buying Electronics? Take a Look at EPEAT First...

Buying Electronics? Take a Look at EPEAT First... August 17, 2009 | Posted in Electronics & Appliances

In charge of buying some new IT equipment at your company? The desktop in the home office getting a bit putzy?

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

Climate Disobedience: Is a New 'Seattle' in the Making? August 17, 2009 | Posted in Environment and Society

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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Practising What We Preach?

Practising What We Preach? August 14, 2009 | Posted in Environment and Society

The failure to apply sustainable livelihoods thinking where it is most needed - in the North.

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Is There a Future for Golf?

Is There a Future for Golf? August 13, 2009 | Posted in Environment and Society

Last week Donald Trump secured permission to build ‘the world's greatest golf course' in Scotland.

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Carbon Negative Cement

Carbon Negative Cement August 12, 2009 | Posted in Environment and Society

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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What Can We Learn From Amsterdam About Waste to Energy?

What Can We Learn From Amsterdam About Waste to Energy? August 11, 2009 | Posted in Environment and Society

The Netherlands has a reputation for being progressive, from the environment to social initiatives.

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