Bicycle riders dressed as giant potatoes participated in a cycling tour to raise awareness of organic farming. It is a lighthearted approach to a very serious topic. "The PieperPad (Dutch for "Potato Trail") is a 1000 kilometer long cycling tour designed to raise...
created by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 417 views | 22 recommendations | 3 comments
We have beautiful carrizo plants in the area, no need to spray them. They're used to make furniture and palapas, but we are not facing the issues being faced at the border. " Environmental groups are blasting a...
created by Pat Garcia | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 479 views | 54 recommendations | 6 comments
An earlier story on Now Public reported strange affects on crops due to the use of aminopyralid in the UK. Farms that used aminopyralid to control certain weeds then sent animal manure to allotments only to find...
created by LoopZilla | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 275 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Hormone based weedkiller has entered the food chain via farmyard manure in the UK. RHS advice state that aminopyralid has passed into horse manure, and it affecting crops suchs as tomatoes, potatoes and beans Here...
created by LoopZilla | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 449 views | 16 recommendations | 7 comments
Hopefully people will not use the intervening 12 months to stock up their garden sheds."A group of councils and "green waste" companies has succeeded in persuading an environmental regulator to block householders'...
created by Tom van B | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 513 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Sources:
Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005
Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”
Author: Elliot D....
created by happytribe | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 4919 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Nice one, President Karzai decides not to poison his people and the land they live on by spraying poppy fields. Regardless of the "war on drugs," propaganda that will follow this decision, he is making the...
created by clorenz1 | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 368 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The top U.S. anti-drug official said that Afghan poppies would be sprayed with herbicide to combat an opium trade that produced a record heroin haul this year, a measure likely to anger farmers and scare Afghans...