Farming is not adapted to large-scale operations because of the following reasons: Farming is concerned with plants and animals that live, grow, and die. - "Ancient" agricultural textbook (Cornell University, 1942) Social systems are not adapted to large-scale operations, because social systems are concerned with humans that live, grow, and die. Part of the problem with society ...
Every Monday, a whole host of tweets go out under the tag #EcoMonday, #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday. In #EcoMonday, people tweet what they're reading, recommend other Twitter users to follow, and have conversations about sustainability, climate change, green living, and everything else "eco." Tweeters in #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday choose to eat ...
"Yearning in the human soul to smell a flower, pet a pig, and enjoy food with a face has never been stronger," preaches Joel Salatin, the man responsible for Polyface Farms, one of the best known working cases for commercially viable sustainable agriculture. ...
The Washington Post has a very interesting, albeit buggy, little doodad: the POTUS tracker. It is a calendar that creates a graphical representation of how President Obama's schedule. The idea is to generate a picture of what issues, groups and individuals are getting the President's time and attention, to give the viewer a ...
How many times have you told yourself that you need to find a better work-life balance? Well guess what? Work-life balance is a lie. I know sometimes you feel like a zombie at the end of a long day at the office. But unless you are actually undead at work, in which ...
"Environmental solutions that depend solely on will power are doomed to fail," states David Owen, author of the soon to be released book Green Metropolis, which was recently reviewed in the New York Times. Owen argues that cities are the answer ...
What makes for a "good week" in sustainability news? Lots of news? A week more or less devoid of major crises? Big breakthroughs in science and technology? Maybe it's just a week of active and constructive dialogue about sustainability and the big picture? This week was definitely the latter. In Living Sustainably in the ...
Today's post was supposed to be about how to build a great garden for free, which is what I was planning on doing today. Instead, it is about a baby mouse, which is what I spent my afternoon doing. Because that's just how my life goes. The garden will still be there. Mice are near ...
The other day I stumbled across this interesting diagram titled with two of my favorite words: Sustainable Balance. I spend a lot of time thinking about what sustainable means, and what balance means, and why I often feel as if I am alone in being drawn to (*cough obsessed with cough*) these two words.
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