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Benno Hansen

One man's 3-year experiment in eating organic food - all the time - International Heral... - 0 views

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organic food nutrition

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  • Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician
  • He chose three years as a goal because that was the amount of time it took to have a breeding animal certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • "Whenever you go up the food chain, the costs pile up,"
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  • "If you don't eat meat at every meal, if meat becomes more of a side dish than a centerpiece, you can fill the plate with healthy organic food for about the same price."
  • a dairy farmer who noted that livestock got sick less after a switch to organic practices
  • Three years later, he says he has more energy and wakes up earlier.
  • Now, he says, he is rarely ill. His urine is a brighter yellow, a sign that he is ingesting more vitamins and nutrients.
Benno Hansen

Why Small Organic Farming Is Indeed Radical (and Beautiful) | Food | AlterNet - 0 views

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Sustainability food environmentalism agriculture

shared by Benno Hansen on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • focus is on the quality of the crops grown and their suitability for human nutrition
  • I often think of how much further all that effort could have gone had I grown up on a "real" farm but then I realize that if I had, it would have required an equal effort to change from the "quantity first" focus that has so characterized American agriculture to the new "quality first" focus established by the organic pioneers.
    • Arabica Robusta
      Arabica Robusta on 08 Mar 10
       
      Food Rebellions! is a very useful book in this context, arguing that organic small farms actually produce more yield per acre (perhaps per unit of energy too) than large farms.
  • There is no reason that large farms, whatever path they may have been on, cannot learn to meet those standards if they understand that it is not the scale of the farm but the attitude of the farmer that the public is interested in.
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  • The small organic farm greatly discomforts the corporate/industrial mind because the small organic farm is one of the most relentlessly subversive forces on the planet.  Over centuries both the communist and the capitalist systems have tried to destroy small farms because small farmers are a threat to the consolidation of absolute power.  Thomas Jefferson said he didn't think we could have democracy unless at least 20% of the population was self-supporting on small farms so they were independent enough to be able to tell an oppressive government to stuff it.  It is very difficult to control people who can create products without purchasing inputs from the system, who can market their products directly thus avoiding the involvement of mercenary middlemen, who can butcher animals and preserve foods without reliance on industrial conglomerates, and who can't be bullied because they can feed their own faces.
  • Massive industrial conglomerates that look upon people as anonymous passive serfs, obedient cogs in a mechanistic world, now control far too many aspects of human existence.
Brevity Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

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event management software development company

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  • Brevity Software Solutions Pvt Ltd on 16 May 16
     
    Brevity Software Solutions is best event management software development company in India. We provides complete solutions software for different Corporate and Conference Management, Management/Event and Planning Portal, different Online Scheduling, Ticketing and Event Registration. Brevity has experience to provide solutions for Industries and organizations such as Associations, Companies, Educational Institutes, Government Bodies as well as Non-Profit Organizations.
eyal matsliah

The No Impact sustainable eating plan - 0 views

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  • A diet that is local, unfrozen and unprocessed, seasonal, organic or near-organic, has no packaging and is based on mostly grain and vegetables, including little or no beef or dairy
  • Production has its impact by water use, land use, energy use, and herbicide and pesticide use:
  • Eat organic or close to it—to cut down on the chemicals.
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  • Eating seasonally—avoids carbon emissions produced by oil-guzzling boilers used to heat greenhouses and by power plants used to keep things frozen.
  • If  you’re veggie, eat more eggs than cheese—one pound of cheese takes ten pounds of milk to make. It has about the same impact as a pound of beef.  I’ve read that far-away beans as a protein source may be better than local cheese. Eat fresh and seasonal—freezing and keeping food frozen is not so low impact.
  • Bring your own cloth shopping bags and buy loose produce.
  • Distribution means transportation and the average piece of American food has traveled 1500 Miles to get to your plate. I emphasize local because: A regional and local food system would release five to seventeen times less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than our current national and international model (according to this Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture study).
vrocky

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  • vrocky on 26 Sep 16
     
    Working Women Skincare Tips If you are able to run away from fast food fast sufficient, you might be doing a enormous favour to your skin. The ingredients in fast food can damage your health and your skin too. At work, have a some of almonds, berries or some fruits handy. You need habitually eat all types and colours of organic, fresh vegetables, particularly green and leafy ones. Be necessary at least one cup of two-three dissimilar types of berries thrice a week. Take in veggie juices in your diet. These types of foods are sure to improvement your antioxidant
Joshua Sherk

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Environment food

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  • Joshua Sherk on 30 Oct 08
     
    Information on organic foods (focusing on pesticide controls and what's best for your money)
Mark Kabbbash

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Nansulate Investing insulating paint green schools

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  • Mark Kabbbash on 17 Apr 09
     
    Please help spread this word! It is for a good cause and the kids need help!
  • Mark Kabbbash on 17 Apr 09
     
    "The idea for the event builds upon three years of grassroots collaboration among K-12 schools to become more environmentally sustainable," said Harrison Monsky, lead organizer for the event and a senior at Collegiate, "The rationale and desire for sustainability exists; now schools want to know how to do it. The resources exist today and it is a matter of connecting 'the will' and 'the way.'"
Bill Fitzgerald

The benefits of conservation tillage - 0 views

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shared by Bill Fitzgerald on 18 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Bill Fitzgerald on 18 Jan 10
     
    At the Fourth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in New Delhi, India, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization stressed the importance of moving away from the conventional intensive farming methods in use today. Shivaji Pandey, Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization stressed the need for change
Maluvia Haseltine

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GreenTechnology Sustainability

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  • Maluvia Haseltine on 07 Feb 10
     
    Our Mission: LUTW is an international development organization whose goal is to provide renewable energy technologies and high efficiency lighting to communities around the world that do not have access to appropriate and affordable energy solutions.
Skeptical Debunker

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shared by Skeptical Debunker on 11 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • “I would expect the market for electrics does not depend at all on the development of a [charging] network, given the way in which these vehicles are used,” said Tom Turrentine, director of the Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Center at the University of California, Davis. Through his survey of 150 people leasing the BMW MiniE battery electric prototype last year, Turrentine discovered that its maximum range of 100 miles per charge was enough to satisfy their normal driving habits. Turrentine found that most MiniE drivers were able to drive between 80 and 100 miles per charge, which they found to be sufficient. “The vehicle meets their needs in this range,” he noted.Market research firm Frost & Sullivan also queried more than 2,000 drivers of all kinds of car nationwide and found that most feel the recharging time for an electric car's battery is acceptable. This satisfaction with the battery's range meant that drivers were able to charge conveniently at home, rather than dealing with the hassle of plugging in at work or in other public parking locations. The relative lack of these recharging locations could prove less of a deterrent to electric car acceptance than was expected, Turrentine said.
  • When Berlin, Germany, installed a public charging network, the chargers went largely unused by the city’s electric car drivers, he added. Still, electric drivers don't like the notion of getting stranded and sympathized with one another’s plight. MiniE drivers posted their locations on a Web site they shared, so if one of them found themselves far from home with a low battery, they could head to another MiniE driver’s home for some electrons to get home. The home-charging units provided with the cars can juice up a battery more quickly than just plugging into an available 120-volt outlet, getting the driver back on the road in less time. This self-organized grass-roots support network that sprung up through the use of social media is an example of how electric car test drivers have communicated with one another and with carmakers even without organized surveys like Turrentine’s. “Our customers will give us feedback anyway, whether we like it or not,” said Ulrich Kranz, head of BMW’s Project i. Even if drivers infrequently need public charging, knowing it is available provides considerable peace of mind to prospective EV buyers, according to Frost & Sullivan’s director of automotive and transportation research, Veerender Kaul.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 11 Mar 10
     
    To all those cities worrying about how they are going to get wired for electric vehicles: Fret not. "Range anxiety" may not be as acute as you think. Studies of drivers who already have electric cars are finding that they prefer the convenience of charging at home, and despite their vehicles' limited range, most are able to avoid public charging. That's good news as tightfisted states and cities prepare to deal with the transition by some drivers to battery-powered vehicles. And it's also good news for automakers who were worried that acceptance of the vehicles would depend on creating a network of charging stations, much as there are now gas stations dotting every neighborhood.
biodegradable123

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  • biodegradable123 on 15 Mar 23
     
    Ecoway Global use cutting-edge technology and advanced production methods to produce organic products that meet the highest standards of quality and performance.
Benno Hansen

Big business goes to Rio -- New Internationalist - 0 views

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  • Harmless-sounding phrases like ‘green economy’ and ‘sustainable development’ have become grounds for bitter dispute, as different governments and business interests attempt to redefine these terms to meet their own agenda.
  • This row of well-meaning policy sandcastles have spent the past 20 years being eaten away by a rising tide of fundamentalist free-market economics, unfettered financial speculation, and consolidated corporate power.
  • any environmental and social gains from the first Rio summit look small next to the destruction wrought by a voracious corporate sector and by governments obsessed with growth in GDP before all else.
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  • A shift to a genuinely sustainable society will require us to challenge these negative forces, rein in the excesses of corporations and markets, and build an entirely different economy based on wellbeing for the many rather than profits for the few.
  • Silvia Ribeiro from the campaign group ETC Mexico points out: ‘Collapsing financial markets in Northern countries mean that banks and other investors are now looking desperately for new areas of expansion and speculation. We can see these desires leaving their mark on the Rio+20 process. The “Green Economy” now under discussion would unleash a wave of risky but lucrative new technologies such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology and climate technofixes. This isn’t about finding the best environmental solutions: it’s about creating profitable new investments.’
  • we cannot afford to live in a world where ecosystems are protected if, and only if, there is more profit to be made by protecting them than by trashing them.
  • Large polluting industries, business lobby groups and financial institutions are welcomed in as well-meaning ‘stakeholders’ – like mafia bosses invited to a meeting on reducing gang violence.
  • The businesses with the most wealth and power are those that have flourished in an economy based on the unrestricted use of natural resources and the exploitation of many of the world’s people. Those with the most to lose from a shift to true sustainability are therefore those with the most power to block that change.
  • the Stockholm Environment Institute calculated that the economic value of the oceans could be reduced by up to $2 trillion per year if climate change is left unchecked
  • Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of IEN, said: ‘Systems such as “payment for ecological services” and using forests in carbon offset markets do nothing but make Mother Earth into the World Trade Organization of nature.’
  • According to Lucia Ortiz of Friends of the Earth Brazil: ‘Trades Unions are getting very concerned about the “green economy” agenda, because it represents a deepening of neoliberal policies, and threatens to undermine the social rights already secured by past struggles. They are working in solidarity with environmentalists, indigenous peoples, farmers and women’s rights activists, calling instead for a transition to a sustainable and just society free from the exploitation of workers and of nature.’
Arabica Robusta

Fair Trade or food miles? « Brussels Development Briefings - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 20 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The food miles debate is increasing the demand for local foods, which could become a threat to air freighted Fair Trade products.
eyal matsliah

No Impact Man: When the lights go out…Gulp! - 0 views

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shared by eyal matsliah on 07 May 07 - Cached
  • As for lighting, strategically placed candles with mirrors behind them shine more brightly than people give them credit for.
  • A suggestion for those who find it financially difficult to be green. Search in your areas for Trade and Barter organizations. I'm sure most big cities have them. But you don't have to join a group, but people you know that you can barter with. I have done this before, traded my time with a friend who is a carpenter who builds energy efficient off-grid homes. It saved me a lot of money. Everyone has a skill they can trade. You can still be green even if you have a low-income. I've managed to do it, and having a low-income has taught me to be responsible with money. Grow your own food, or find someone who has a space you can start a garden. I live in a bachelor suite and grow culinary herbs, and baby lettuce, romaine, spinach. Also grow sprouts in jars. There is lots of info on the net about sprout growing. Posted by: dare | April 21, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Benno Hansen

Google-Style Rankings for Ecosystems: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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podcast google ecology species

shared by Benno Hansen on 24 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Allesino’s formula gives importance to a species if it supplies food to another. And, if that species serves as food for several organisms, it climbs up the rankings. Higher ranked species, says Allesino, should become the focus of conservation efforts.
Benno Hansen

Off the Shelf - 'Green Gone Wrong' - Can Capitalism Save the Planet? - Review - NYTimes... - 0 views

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climate change capitalism environmentalism

shared by Benno Hansen on 06 Apr 10 - Cached
  • corporate America has led us into thinking that we can save the earth mainly by buying things
  • ‘lazy environmentalism,’ is geared toward the masses that aren’t willing to sacrifice,”
  • armchair activism actualizes itself most fully in the realm of consumer goods; through buying the right products we can usher our economic system into the environmental age.”
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  • many of the small organic producers who are expected to lead the reinvention of the food system can barely make ends meet
  • If there was ever a time to ponder the long-term consequences of our spending habits, it’s in the wake of the worst economic crisis in decades, which was fueled by rampant consumer borrowing.
Alex Parker

The Alternative Power Dock - 0 views

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environment energy

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  • Alex Parker on 06 Jan 15
     
    Alternative maritime power for docked container vessels has made steady progress throughout the decade. But isn't it time more ports and shipping lines adopted the technology? asks Alex Hawkes. As the climate talks in Copenhagen draw to a close and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) comes under increasing pressure to address the shipping industry's carbon emissions, alternative maritime power (AMP) is looking an increasingly obvious solution.
Alex Parker

Jamaran / Mowj Class Multi-Purpose Guided Missile Frigate - Naval Technology - 1 views

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  • Alex Parker on 26 Aug 14
     
    Jamaran is the first indigenously built Mowj Class multi-purpose guided missile frigate of the Imperial Iranian Navy. Currently being built by the Marine Industries Group of Defense Industries Organization (DIO), the vessels are locally referred to as destroyers. The keel for the first vessel, Jamaran, was laid down in 2006.
Benno Hansen

Dealing with climate change? Think like an octopus - The Daily Climate - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • "Adaptability is how all biological organisms have dealt with the fact that they can never eliminate the risks."
  • Nature's mechanisms for dealing with that are fairly simple, he added: They're decentralized, they have redundant parts, they form highly symbiotic networks, and they iterate success.
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