Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Environment”
Thinking like a mountain is a concept used by Aldo Leopold to emphasize the ethical premise that every individual is a part of a larger interdependent biotic community, and right action can be judged by how it affects the environment. Thinking like a mountain is meant to personify the land in a way that encourages ethical consideration of the entire …
Sometimes you may just want to eat a little transgenic food, and I understand that. It is new, innovative, and a little risk is exciting, right! We could someday have glowing spaghetti that can be eaten in the dark, strawberries as big as apples that self-regenerate, and chickens with a six pack of leg-thigh combos ready for the bacon infused …
It is not often that one has to call into question whether the water in the tap, the milk from the cow, and the drops that fall from the sky are fundamentally safe to consume, but this is precisely the predicament we could find if ever there were widespread nuclear contamination of the Pacific Ocean. In March 2011, an earthquake …
Farmers and humans think they are pretty clever these days, but not clever enough to take responsibility for the pollination of $30 billion worth of nourishing food crops each year; currently a task taken happily by Honey Bees. Important work is being done to determine what is devastating the population of apis mellifera; but do Americans want to wake up from …
The importance of bees can hardly be understated. That is why The Oregon Bee Store, in Eagle Point Oregon, is creating a knowledge center for all things bees, including classes on bee keeping, an expansive garden, as well as opportunities to volunteer and get involved with bees! With over three decades of commercial bee keeping expertise, the bee store is …
ecosnobberysucks: How much water are you really using? Many of us have low flow shower heads and our toilets are using less water, but how does that compare to the water that goes into the things we use and consume every day?
How to grow 35,000 trees! This was such a fun project to watch literally be created before my eyes… The UT Tree Nursery at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower center in Austin is an ongoing effort towards…well, namely growing trees! The nursery has expanded greatly, and is now a brimming orchard housing over 70,000 trees of all types. The Loblolly …
Every time you chow a corncob, you are eating Maiz vagina… thank a farmer, and get some! Tall sexy stalks and voluptuous cobs, it is hard to find a more distichous specimen. The male flower of Zea Maiz, elongated, towering high above produces pollen, while the female cob of the plant protects the inner bounty with a husk. Silt protrudes from …
Amazing Science – Changing how We Grow (by UTesi) Imagine, the minuscule algae from waste water ponds could supply energy, while simultaneously helping solve major problems like agricultural run-off, dead-zones, and green-house inducing carbon emissions. I am honestly amazed more people aren’t talking about this amazing discovery. Video produced here in Austin Texas for the Environmental Science Institute. -ArtIsInFormation.org (Source: …
Kittens, Ninja’s, UFO’s, OMG no it’s just Compost (by UTesi) Video produced in Austin Texas for the Environmental Science Institute. -ArtIsInFormation.org (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
I simply had to stop when I saw the Industrial County Market (ICM) in Columbus TX. It is a 100% off the grid energy node and market with many sustainability features. They have numerous solar arrays, windmills, a rainwater collection and retention system, garden center, and art, all open to the public. According to their website, the ICM conducts monthly …
