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Extreme heat effects on wheat senescence in India : Nature Climate Change
Affiliations Department of Environmental Earth System Science and Program on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA David B. Lobell & Adam Sibley International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Global Conservation Agriculture Program, Apdo. Postal 6-641, 06600 Mexico D.F., Mexico J.Utopian Permaculture Farms Look Like Floating Fantastical Islands
Dietmar Koering of Arphenotype ’s utopian visions for the future of farming are both beautiful and completely self sufficient. His synergetic design is a floating permaculture, comprised of many green systems including wind power. Made possible by a grant from the Bakema Foundation and partnering with the Netherlands Architecture Institute and A10, Koering’s system is radical, futuristic, and would float about the North Sea. <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/Inhabitat/energy;article=articlename;kw=content1;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" ><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/Inhabitat/energy;article=articlename;kw=content1;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" border="0" alt="" /></a>Agriculture and conservation are on collision course, and that has to change, says the UN Environment Programme director MILLIONS of people in Africa live in unremitting poverty and hunger. For the foreseeable future, the only way to alleviate their misery is through agricultural development.
Conservation and farming must learn to live together - environment - 18 April 2011
World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Kicks Off Second Growing Season in Brooklyn
Did you know that the world’s largest rooftop farm is located in NYC? That’s right, called the Brooklyn Grange , the 40,000 square foot elevated garden is located on top of a six-story warehouse, and grows everything from tomatoes to peppers to fennel to salad greens and much, much more. The grange recently launched their second growing season and we’re thinking it will be even more successful than the last. Read on for more info and pics of the verdant rooftop farm . <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/Inhabitat/Architecture;article=articlename;kw=content1;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?"Un statut pour les animaux, par Pablo Jensen
Dès qu’on les aborde, certains points névralgiques de notre modernité déstabilisent nos concepts les plus familiers. Le rapport entre humains et animaux déclenche ainsi de nombreuses réactions où se mêlent inextricablement des aspects philosophiques, scientifiques et politiques : sur fond de mise en question de la conception d’une nature humaine dotée de caractéristiques propres, c’est la légitimité des expérimentations animales, ou plus largement celle de leur exploitation, qui est interrogée. Les recherches récentes en éthologie et les préoccupations écologiques ont renouvelé les termes de ce vieux débat, comme en témoignent, parmi une production abondante, deux livres récents.Permaculture
Des tomates dans un plat sur une table (Dylan Parker/Flickrr/CC). « Trouver des plans pour acheter de la bonne bouffe moins cher. » Quand j’entends un copain me parler du collectif qu’il a créé avec trois amis, à première vue, je rigole. Présentée comme ça, l’affaire ressemble à un trafic illicite. J’ai rejoint le groupe il y a deux ans.

