www.guardian.co.uk:
Biogas sourced from food waste and sewage is to piped into British homes under a new 'green gas' tariffRotting leftovers, wilted salad and even sewage are to provide a new source of "green gas" to heat our homes.From today, B (Read More)
Gristmill:
by Tom Laskawy Jennifer Hashley processes a chicken on her Massachusetts farm. Massachusetts poultry farmer Jennifer Hashley has a problem. From the moment she started raising pastured chickens outside Concord, Mass. in 2002, (Read More)
Development in a Changing Climate:
Senator John Kerry’s recent speech to World Bank staff, which a colleague reported on earlier, was clear and powerful. He said that the development challenges of the 21st century cannot be delivered by international financial (Read More)
Gristmill:
by Brad Johnson Paul Bakus in a ruined pumpkin patch.Photo: Wonk RoomCross-posted from the Wonk Room.Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global wa (Read More)
Mongabay.com News:
Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while C (Read More)
Yale Environment 360:
The Kenyan government has begun evicting an estimated 30,000 families that have squatted illegally in the vital Mau forest and caused major environmental damage to the one-million-acre woodland. The Mau forest, located in the (Read More)
Wired Science:
Thanks to their vast underground fungus farms, leafcutter ants are one of Earth’s most successful species — and one secret of their agricultural success is bacteria, which the ants use like fertilizer.By farming with microbes (Read More)
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News:
Rome, Italy (SPX) Nov 19, 2009 - Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent a (Read More)
ScienceInsider:
Animal agriculture science policy wonks will be eager to eat up a new blog on the topic.And meet ExpertLabs, a new collaboration tool for policymakers and scientists to share ideas online. (It's run by AAAS, which publishes t (Read More)
Wired Science:
After decades of seeing plants as passive recipients of fate, scientists have found them capable of behaviors once thought unique to animals. Some plants even appear to be social, favoring family while pushing strangers from (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
With car parks accounting for up to 10% of land in US cities, measures to make them more environmentally friendly are urgentIn the 40 years since Joni Mitchell sang about paving paradise, putting up parking lots remains an Am (Read More)