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...
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...
Tremendous reason for optimism exists on the technological front to deal with problems such as renewable energy sources. We now have promising technology that will allow us to farm with a minimum of water in...
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...
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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...
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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'...
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"#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....
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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...
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"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...
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