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Update: Path To Freedom

May 24, 2010 Environment

From The Huffington Post,
Jules Dervaes, a man has turned his small yard in Pasadena, California into a profitable organic urban farm called Path to Freedom. Dervaes says what started out as a hobby became serious for him with the advent of genetically modified foods and rising food prices.
With the help of his family, they now [...]

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Growing Power Adds Solar And Water Collectors

April 3, 2010 Aquaponics

Will Allen’s Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is one of the premier models of urban farming. Now it has added new solar voltaic collectors and water catchment systems to make the urban farm more sustainable as the Milwaukee Courier newspaper reports,
To save energy on heating its greenhouses, Growing Power has installed a 10.7- kilowatt array [...]

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When Is Solar Energy Not Green?

January 29, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

When GMO plants are used to produce it… Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley have genetically engineered viruses and injected them into tobacco plants triggering the plants to grow solar cells.
Currently, GMO plants that become the food we eat has triggered a backlash in the public’s perception against GMOs. But if GMO plants are [...]

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Climate Change: Farmers’ Solutions — Proposals For Including Agriculture In A Copenhagen Agreement

December 11, 2009 Farm/Garden Politics

From the International Federation of Agricultural Producers’ paper on agriculture and global climate change…
Agriculture everywhere is significantly impacted by climate change. At the same time, agriculture stands as a central player in contributing to solutions to climate change and other world challenges. In order that this potential can be realized, agriculture must be included in [...]

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Thunder Bay Ontario Solar Greenhouse

November 15, 2009 Greenhouses

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, receives a lot of sunlight in the winter months. A Thunder Bay man hopes to utilize those solar rays to grow vegetables throughout the winter with two, four by eight-foot solar panels, thermal blinds and a heat-retention wall built into the greenhouse. Click HERE to read about Leo Hunnakko and his [...]

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Houweling Nurseries—An Example Of Sustainable Industrial Farming And The Way It Can Change

May 15, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

A new state of the art, sustainable greenhouse complex opened Thursday northwest of Los Angeles. The facility uses renewable energy to cut utility costs. Using the latest technology, the facility will produce 20 times more fruit per acre than in conventional field production.

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One Family’s Path to Freedom

April 16, 2009 Flowers

The modern term for the old Victory Garden should be Freedom Garden, according to Jules Dervaes. Today’s garden frees up the individual from having to consume industrial commercial food available in most supermarkets. There obviously are many size gardens, from patio planters to very large gardens that are close in productivity to small farms.
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College Greenhouse Becoming Self Sustainable

March 14, 2009 Greenhouses

University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Center of Ecology and Environmental Technology has taken the first steps in becoming self sustainable by generating solar energy and collecting rain water to operate its pair of half-acre greenhouses.

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New York City Redevelopment Project Goes Green

March 6, 2009 Aquaponics

An old West Harlem marine transfer station, that has sat empty for over ten years, is near final approval to be redeveloped into an ecology center, urban farm and restaurant.

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DIY Recirculating Solar Powered Hydroponic System

February 9, 2009 Hydroponics

The one thing about hydroponics is that you can spend thousands of dollars on a turnkey hobby system or a small fraction of that on one you build yourself. This enterprising guy (who unlike me can cut a straight line with a saw) built his own backyard hydroponic system powered by a very small solar [...]

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