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Pasta perfect: This Italian family grows heirloom grains
Italy is known for its pasta, but most flour in this country is homogenous and bleached. The Pedrini family grows heirloom grains through biodynamic farming.
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Meet the singing, anti-fracking nuns
In the rolling green hills of Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto are leading a grassroots movement against the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline.
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British farmland missing huge natural benefits potential
Filed under: biocarbon, NBI, agriculture Patrick Mazza, Research Director By Patrick Mazza Climate Solutions Farm support programs that target only food production miss huge opportunities to generate natural benefits, a […]
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What’s in crude oil — and how do we use it?
An animated guide to how crude oil turns into useful fuel for cars, jets, and more.
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Kochs must move their massive piles of tar-sands waste, Detroit mayor says
Petcoke has been piling up on Detroit's riverfront near a refinery processing tar-sands oil from Canada, but the city has finally had enough.
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BLM schedules two major coal leases, undermining President Obama’s climate action plan
Next week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to sell 148 million tons of publicly owned coal, making clear that BLM continues to ignore concerns about the carbon pollution […]
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The growing buzz around the biocarbon benefits of farmland
Filed under: Northwest Biocarbon Initiative, climate change, NBI, soil, home, agriculture Patrick Mazza, Research Director By Patrick Mazza Climate Solutions Can agriculture reverse climate change? That was the intriguing title […]
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Mystery lung fungus: Are you at risk?
Valley fever is hard to diagnose, even harder to treat, and potentially fatal -- and the number of cases is rising dramatically.
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Who’s to blame for climate change?
A quick, animated look at at where emissions come from on our planet.
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600 Investors in South Dakota’s Premier Community Wind Project
In this episode of Local Energy Rules, ILSR’s Director of Democratic Energy, John Farrell, speaks to Brian Minish, CEO of South Dakota Wind Partners about a community wind project that […]
