Blog Highlights from 9/17/12 to 9/21/12

Take a look at the highlights from Nourish The Planet and around the web this week: Get Used to ‘Extreme’ Weather, it’s the New Normal – After this year’s summer full of extreme weather events, expect more of the same for years to come. Why Is Climate Change So Easy to Ignore? – With climate change becoming ever more apparent in our lives (extreme weather events, melting ice caps), why is no...

A Poop Problem: Compostable Bags the Solution?

If you own a dog you know their poop can be a real problem. On one hand if left where it lies, dog excrement can pose a public health concern as well as an environmental hazard. On the other, if picked up by a plastic bag, it will be encased for centuries in the landfill. Well Ithaca, NY has been testing a solution. The Allan H. Treman Marine State Park started using corn-based compostable bags, encouraging park goers to use...

Why Aquaponics Will Change My Life

As a child I grew up in a small town serenely located at the foot of the Rockies in Colorado, known as Loveland. Here, I learned what farming was as much of my surrounding community consisted of farmland. I recall driving by vast fields of soil, filled with row after row of corn while cows murmured as my family and I meandered beyond the golden reeds swaying in the wind. My concept of farming was cultivated at a young age,...

Did you know there are no urban gardens in Qatar!

That’s right I think it is safe to say there are no Urban gardens in the capital city of the country of Qatar. How do I know this? Well I was there very recently, for one thing, and for another, we are working on a long-term integrated indoor agriculture project, and I think we are probably more likely than most to be aware of urban gardens. So what is the big deal. They have a lot of money there (2nd richest country in...