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The Health Of America Starts On The Farm

  Mark Bittman makes the point in his column at the New York Times today, that the biggest killer of Americans isn’t guns but industrial agriculture. A point I have

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Talking About Climate

My wife and I were having a conversation about the weather/climate of our youth. What brought the conversation up was the fact that I was mowing grass in our yard

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Texas had its driest year on record in 2011 – Houston Chronicle

Federal scientists confirmed Friday that Texas had its driest year on record in 2011. The statewide average rainfall for the year totaled just 14.88 inches, according to the National Climatic Data

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Bill McKibben and The Moral Math of Climate Change [Speaking of Faith® from APM]

This hour, with Bill McKibben, we seek perspective, both factual and moral, on human responsibility in a changing natural world. McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first book on

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The Difference Between Weather And Climate…

All of the folks that are claiming that the Earth is and has been in a cooling cycle are being disingenuous…Using weather trends to infer climate trends breaks down when

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California Drought Continues…

Parched winter months this year have put California agriculture into a tailspin. With a third dry year in a row, the state has been forced to deeply examine its strategies

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Kitchen Gardeners International

Dear Kitchen Gardener, What’s a home garden worth? With the global economy spiraling downward and Mother Nature preparing to reach upward, it’s a good question to ask and a good

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World coal reserves overestimated, says scientist » Radio Podcasts | Earth & Sky

From the web… That’s CalTech engineer David Rutledge, who spoke to EarthSky at a recent science meeting. He said governments around the world have overestimated coal reserves or, the amount

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