There are lots of benefits of eating local food, so here comes THE FARMERY, a new idea in food production that brings the farmer and the consumer MUCH closer together!

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With all the new models of phones and pads being introduced every day, here comes ecoATM: put in your old phone and it’ll analyze it, find it a new home or recycle the components, determine a value…and offer you cash for your trouble!

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by Molly Theobald

In Zambia, sorghum—a drought resistant cereal that thrives in the country— was considered a “poor man’s crop” in the past, often shunned by small-scale farmers for the more commercially viable maize. But an article in the June issue of Farming Matters explains how a Zambian brewery with a new brand of beer is changing the way small-scale farmers think about sorghum.

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by Annie B. Bond
Cross-posted from Care2.com

People who enter a naturally cleaned home tend to love the way they feel. I hear this over and over again. I think it is because natural cleaning ingredients infuse the space with their subtle scents and natural, non-toxic presence. On some level, our bodies must brace themselves for a chemical onslaught when faced with mainstream cleaners...

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by Gradybarrels.com

Replacing city and well water with captured rainwater for landscaping efficiently uses this valuable resource, reduces personal water bills, and decreases the overall demand on public water supplies...

Editor’s Note: Fresh water is one of the most essential resources, yet it’s being rapidly depleted from our underground reservoirs as we pump them for agricultural, industrial and personal use.  Here’s a way to restore groundwater levels, while at the same time benefit from rainwater’s purity.

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by Mike Adams

These days, it seems increasingly difficult to know what to shop for at the grocery store. Is organic always better than conventional? What if it's an "organic" product that's been flown half-way around the world, burning up fossil fuels that contribute to global warming? How do you decide what's better: A conventional apple grown locally with chemical pesticides, or an organic apple from another continent?...

Editor’s Note: Selecting food at the grocery store is a complex choice affecting one’s own health and the health of the planet.  This cartoon and accompanying article depicts some of the painful decisions that are made.  One answer is to bypass the store and grow your own food, or know who did. 

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by The Seed Ambassadors Project

We are losing diversity, biologicaland social, at an unprecedented rate. This erosion of diversity directly limits our ecological and social resilience and adaptability within this changing world.

According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, crop genetic resources are disappearing at the rate of 1 to 2 percent a year. About 75 percent of agricultural crop diversity is estimated to have been lost since the beginning of the last century.

Editor’s Note: Saving your own seed can not only save you money, but it can also help increase the genetic diversity of our world’s seeds, which will help us to be more resilient in changing times.  Plus it’s fun to do.  This ‘zine written by the Seed Ambassadors Project will help you get started.

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Here’s our salute to The Green Schools Alliance, which is linking the great young environmental minds in three thousand schools around the world and challenging them to save energy dollars…all while inspiring the environmental leaders of tomorrow!

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Editor’s Note: "Now with his super bunny powers he roams the globe as a protector of the environment, it's BIO BUNNY!"- Go Bio Bunny, Go!

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Here’s another good use for the plastic bottles that are fouling our planet: floating islands.  They provide a matrix for the papyrus plants that filter water to keep lakes clean and clear…with an immediate application in an endangered lake in Kenya!

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by Organic Connections Magazine

Dervaes Gardens sits practically on top of a Pasadena, California, freeway and is only blocks away from the famous Rose Bowl. Outside are all the trappings of twenty-first-century life: automobiles, satellite dishes, supermarkets, car washes, and stores carrying produce brought thousands of miles for the convenience of their customers. But inside, Jules Dervaes and his children have created what they call an Urban Homestead.

Editor’s Note: The Dervaes family in Pasadena, California has converted 1/10 of an acre of urban land from concrete slab to gardens, and grows up to three tons of produce per year right there! Imagine what kind of food abundance and vitality would be available to us and our neighbors if those of us with access to land and water produced food where we live.

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