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Live Green - Top 5 Reasons Why Cast Iron Is The Greenest Choice For Non-Stick Cooking Dependable, that’s what cast iron is. It will last for centuries if properly cared for, and it has a natural non-stick surface that’s eco-friendly. Dependable, that’s what cast iron is. It will last for centuries if properly cared for, and it has a natural non-stick surface that’s eco-friendly. When I was a bride, my Granny gave me two of her cast iron skillets. Old Red Goes Green: Recycled Wall Brick Built to Save Water It might look like your typical old red clay house-building brick on one side, but turn it over and there is a shift that hints at a deeper design change – one that is eco-friendly but also expressive in a way that most walls or brick are not. Designed by Jin-young Yoon to be made from recycled plastic and decomposed leaves, this brick is green from the ground up (so to speak). More than just its composite materials, however, built-in grooves are designed to funnel water for gardening or even long-term underground storage. In a world where water is becoming the next hot-button resource destined to become scarce, it seems like a good time to start thinking about our most basic building materials and structures (such as bricks and walls) and see how they might shift to accommodate an ever-growing need for homes to have access to nature’s most vital resource.
Global food system must be transformed 'on industrial revolution scale' The existing global food system is failing half the people on Earth, the report warns. Photograph: Martin Godwin The world will not be able to feed itself without destroying the planet unless a transformation on the scale of the industrial revolution takes place, a major government report has concluded. The existing food system is failing half of the people on Earth, the report finds, with 1 billion going hungry, 1 billion lacking crucial vitamins and minerals from their diet and another billion "substantially overconsuming", leading to obesity epidemics.
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Next In Sustainable Living: Beer Bottle Houses As people move to more sustainable ways of living, some innovative architects have begun using recycled materials to create more environmentally-friendly habitats. Incredibly, beer bottles have become a primary means of this style of building, with far-ranging benefits including cheap construction, recycling and up-cycling, pollution reduction, natural solar power lighting, and natural insulation. The environment will definitely thank these clever builders for these eco-friendly beer bottle houses:
Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food Correction Appended: Aug. 20, 2009 Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and his thousands of pen mates on the factory farm where they live goes into manure lagoons that blanket neighboring communities with air pollution and a stomach-churning stench. He's fed on American corn that was grown with... Subscribe Now
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Our energy-gulping industrial food system revealed in eight bullet points Reefer madness: Refrigerated supermarket trucks are but one link in our gas-guzzling food chain.Photo courtesy Paul Sullivan via FlickrIn his recent The New York Times op-ed, “Math Lessons for Locavores” — debated at length in our “Food Fight” feature — Stephen Budiansky shows that transportation and “modern” (i.e., highly mechanized and chemical-intesnsive) farming make up relatively small parts of industrial food’s energy footprint. Consumers in their kitchens, in Budiansky’s view, are the real energy guzzlers — so locavores should stop worrying and learn to love industrial food. Those points are addressed broadly by a recent article in Amber Waves, the publication of the USDA’s Economic Research service. On page 13 of this lucidly written report, we find that in 2002, U.S. households used nearly 4 quadrillion BTUs of energy in the kitchen, more than any other sector of the food system. For Budiansky, these facts exonerate the industrial food system in energy-use terms.
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Our Failing Food System Agriculture in the United States has taken the wrong road, and it isn't working. The wealthiest nation in the world, with the most powerful technology in history at its disposal, is feeding its citizens a diet that evolution has not equipped us for. And we are growing most of this food using methods that poison and undermine our soil, water and air with unsustainable quantities of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The results? A population—and a healthcare system—threatened by a crisis of diet-related illness; millions of acres of damaged farmland; chemical runoff spilling into our waterways and creating an oxygen-starved "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Factory Farming, what is factory farm? - The Issues On This Page: What is Industrial Agriculture or Factory Farming? Industrial Crop Production Industrial Animal Production The Characteristics of Industrial Agriculture Corporate Involvement in Agriculture The True Costs Did You Know? What You Can Do For More Information Reports and Articles In the last few decades, consolidation of food production has concentrated power in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations.