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Why Does A Salad Cost More Than A Big Mac?

March 9, 2010 What's Growing

Graphic credit: PCRM Health vs Pork. Repeat after me: Social welfare—bad… industrial agri-biz corporate welfare—good…

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Lady Gaga Scarecrow: Odd Outfit Inspired Farmer

February 27, 2010 What's Growing

From News:Lite,
A farmer was so inspired by the bizarre outfit Lady Gaga wore to the Brit Awards, he decided to honour it in his own special way.
Nigel Britten, from Surrey, says as soon as he saw Lady Gaga’s scary outfit and bizarre make-up, he thought how good it would look on one if his scarecrows.
Helped [...]

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Sex Life May Hold Key To Honeybee Survival

February 25, 2010 What's Growing

From the University of Leeds in England,
The number and diversity of male partners a queen honeybee has could help to protect her children from disease, say University of Leeds scientists, who are investigating possible causes of the widespread increase in bee deaths seen around the world.
The researchers are working on the theory that the reason [...]

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Bored? There Is An App For That—Plants vs Zombies iPhone Game App

February 17, 2010 What's Growing

This iPhone game is addictive. Up until now, the game has been available as a PC game and the developers have ported it over to the iPhone with many of the same features. Plants vs. Zombies requires you to defend your house from mobs of raging zombies by placing various sorts of projectile-emitting, exploding, and [...]

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Hoop Houses For Haiti

February 12, 2010 What's Growing

Esbenshade’s Greenhouses and Youth with a Mission International (YWAM) are teaming up to provide temporary housing to the homeless people in Haiti. As many as one million temporary housing units may be needed for Haiti earthquake survivors. Recognizing this great need, a team from Esbenshade’s Greenhouses has designed and constructed a temporary housing structure resembling [...]

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A Tool Bag Or Fancy Briefcase For Gardeners

February 10, 2010 What's Growing

Some folks that garden have more money than they know what to do with… I think products like this are made for them…
From DefinitiveTouch.com,
Industrial designer Richard Gomez, working out of Mexico City, has generated a modern interpretation of gardening tools for the iconic American agri-industry brand John Deere . Taking inspiration from the increasing prevalence [...]

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And We Thought GMOs Were Bad; Pentagon Draws Plans For Immortal ’Synthetic Organisms’

February 5, 2010 What's Growing

The Raw Story is reporting,
The Pentagon’s advanced research division has set aside $6 million from its next budget for research on the creation of “synthetic organisms” whose DNA can be altered to make them live forever, or die on command, and even keep a genetic record of what they have been doing.
In its 2011 budget [...]

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Zeer: The Easy Way To Find Better Food

January 27, 2010 What's Growing

The web site Zeer displays the nutritional labels for every kind of packaged food you can buy, then lets users rate and comment on their favorite items. Zeer is unlike any food information resource out there. Built upon a database of over 30,000 food items, Zeer is not a stagnant list of safe foods, but [...]

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Sea Slug Is Half-plant, Half-animal

January 21, 2010 What's Growing

Clara Moskowitz writes in LiveScience.com,
A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It’s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.
The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they’ve eaten. With their contraband genes, the slugs can carry out photosynthesis — the [...]

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This Is How Your News Will Be Delivered

January 13, 2010 What's Growing

This is indirectly related to gardening since gardening information will be delivered this way. For those futurists who are interested on how magazine, newspapers and books will change in just the next couple of years, watch this… With the anticipated announcement in two weeks of Apple’s 10 inch iTablet or iSlate or whatever they are [...]

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