Spring is a time when you should turn your attention to implementing backyard landscaping ideas to renovate the area since the weather is ideal for greening up your home. Whether you select to increase the lushness of your lawn, plant a garden or add trees or shrubs to your backyard, the warmth and rains of the […]
Eccotopia Reaches Agreement With Partner on Test Locations
Eccotopia has agreed to work with new partner Integrated Natural Resources on selected mining sites with water contaminant issues. Cape Town, South Africa – After a number of weeks of prospecting, the board of directors at South Africa-based sustainable forestation company, Eccotopia, Ltd., has announced its intention to work closely with Las Vegas, Nevada-based Integrated […]
Where Do You Buy Your Corn?
The Times of India reported that multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto attempted to covertly plant its genetically-modified (GM) corn with no government approval. Nitish Kumar, chief minister of Bihar, alerted India’s environment minister who just a few days earlier had denied Monsanto permission to plant the crops at all. Outraged when he discovered that Monsanto had secretly […]
How do young people experience migration?
Children like to ask questions. Across physical, cultural, and political borders, learning happens when they can indulge their curiosity. When I began working with San Francisco public school students in their kindergarten year, I stepped into an environment defined by upheaval. They were living personal stories of foster homes and adoptions, of immigration and […]
Tepary Bean and High Deserts.
Are tepary beans a viable staple for other parts of the world? Indigenous peoples who lived in the Southwest learned what worked through centuries of trial and error. Most of us have lost, or never had, those skills. One of the proven staples of the Southwest was the tepary bean, Phaseolus acutifolius. The name possibly […]
World’s Largest Seed Collection Receives a Multimillion Dollar Grant from Gates
A series of multi-million dollar grants have made it possible for few dozen of the world’s major food crops, almost always propagated clonally, to be stored as seed in Norway’s famous Svalbard (also called the “Doomsday Vault” in popular media) facility. Originally opened in 2006, Svalbard is just one of many germplasm repositories of valuable […]