Posted on 26 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Seeded, malted bread. Image crdit:Flickr, Francis Storr
A market for locally grown wheat and for bread made from it has emerged in Massachusetts. Although it is very small market, it represents a remarkable turnabout in the history of food in America. Before railroads came to the West, wheat was abundant in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. The Great Plains were discovered to be a more productive bread basket and wheat farmers from the Dakotas to Kansas soon dominated US markets. Later, still, wheat became a global commodity. As it stands now, few h…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 07 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Al Gore, who is preparing a new slideshow for his Climate Reality Project, which debuts on Sept. 14, is stepping up his criticism of the president. In June, Gore penned a tour de force in Rolling Stone that covered everything from the death of the climate bill to what’s next for the climate movement. He was not shy then about lovingly critiquing the president, and now he’s openly saying that the president isn’t “relying on science.”…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 18 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Though a world-class cycling city, Portland lacks a bike share system similar to those in other great cycling cities such as Minneapolis, Montreal, Paris, Barcelona. Though bike sharing is considered to be important to attract new cyclists onto the lanes, lack of funds has hampered planning efforts. At first, 2011 seemed to be the year the city of Portland would fund bike sharing. But then, as a vote neared, opposition arose from Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who claimed she couldn’t support funding bike sharing due…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 10 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Car makers do well in the public’s perception of green companies. Illustration by wallygrom (busy at work) via flickr and Creative Commons.
Interbrand has come out with their list of the world’s ‘best’ or top 50 green brands. And as they say in their report analysis, “a number of brands on the Best Global Green Brands table show large gaps between performance and perception.”
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Posted on 04 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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With ~30+ new posts on TreeHugger.com each weekday, we understand if you miss a post here and there. To keep you up-to-date, here’s what we covered on Wednesday, August 3, 2011….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 21 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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All hail the rise of super-weeds! Sure, we’ve already thanked Monsanto for helping a tenacious, fast-growing, brand new kind of plant evolve. But the latest revelations from a study published in Weed Scien…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 17 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Here’s one to file away under weird. Three little ladies in Midway, Georgia were enjoying their summer day selling lemonade when local police drove by and told them to close up shop. You’d think fresh outdoor air and the opportunity to bide summer’s lazy days away from video games in a hyper air conditioned room was criminal…Or was it?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 16 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
mage: Ray Bodden via flickr
This July, the heat is being turned up on TransCanada, the Canadian corporation vying for the right to build a 1,700 mile pipeline, known as the Keystone XL, through the US all the way to the Gulf. The wind might finally be at the back of the landowners and environmentalists who for years have warned that the pipeline, which will carry bitumen from Canada’s carbon bomb known as the tar sands, is a threat to fresh water supplies and the climate. Just this week, the Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 19 June 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Posted on 03 June 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Wind Power is Still a Maturing Technology
University of Adelaide acoustics researchers are investigating the causes of wind turbine noise with the aim of making them quieter. “Wind turbine noise is controversial but there’s no doubt that there is noise. Finding ways of controlling and reducing this noise will help us make the most of this very effective means of generating large amounts of electricity with next to zero carbon emissions.”…Read the full story on TreeHugger
