At first, Missouri dairy producers looked to New Zealand for ideas on how to produce low-cost milk on pasture. Now the world, including New Zealand, looks to Missouri for ideas on grazing dairies. As farm-gate prices for milk plummeted, the idea of

In March, Michelle Obama delighted locavores when she planted an "organic" vegetable garden on the White House's South Lawn. For years, Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and other sustainable food activists had been pushing the idea as a way to reseed interes

While many people are concerned with what unknown factor may be in GMO crops that may harm them, few, if any, are concerned about what is not in GMO crops that may harm them. Nor are they concerned with what is not in hybrid crops that may harm them. The

Advances in ecology increasingly reveal that conventional agricultural practices have detrimental effects on the landscape ecology, creating problems for long-term sustainability of crops. In a series of sessions at the Ecological Society of America's Ann

And since 1999, it seems things have only gotten better when it comes to small-scale agriculture in Russia. A Russian family by their Dascha, or family plot In 2003 the Russian President signed into law a further "Private Garden Plot Act" enabling

The "bike library" is a pilot for a citywide bike-sharing program that will launch next spring. Six hundred bikes will be placed in 40 kiosks around the city of Denver, so locals can borrow and return them.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies......

S 796, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009, will create green jobs by cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of abandoned hardrock mines, give a fair return to the taxpayer, and protect communities and precious western water resources.

The 1872 mining law is a flat-out giveaway. The AP reported that unlike the coal, oil and natural gas industries, hardrock mining companies don't pay royalties on the estimated $1 billion in minerals they extract from the nation's lands each year.

After the first oil embargo and gas crisis in 1973, President Carter installed solar panels on the White House to show how to become independent of foreign oil. In 1980 Pres. Reagan took them down, saying "America didn't conserve its way into greatness".