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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 100 weeks 2 days 14 hours 14 minutes ago
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley said Friday he would support plans to establish a vertical farm in his city.
Speaking at a conference in Milwaukee, Daley said he hopes to eventually see organic food grown year-round at a building near the former site of Chicago's historic stockyards,...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 100 weeks 2 days 14 hours 19 minutes ago
The fish — tilapia, to be exact — darted in their freshwater tanks Saturday morning, blissfully unaware of their role in powering a new urban farm and possibly a movement.
At the New Roots Aqua Farm in City Heights, operators explained that wastewater from the fish...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 90 weeks 1 day 16 hours 57 minutes ago
Cuba is not only an island nation in terms of its geography, but also its economy and politics as a result of the US embargo and the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba's largest source of trade and aid until the Berlin Wall fell in 1991....(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 177 weeks 5 days 22 hours 43 minutes ago
Last year it didn't seem as if there was any way to save Christmas for Geraldine Martinez. Her two daughters had been taken away by Child Protective Services, and she was unable to stop using methamphetamine.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 106 weeks 23 hours 33 minutes ago
It is a taste of the good life for the iPhone generation: more rewarding than InterRailing, safer than kibbutzim. It even has a catchy name, wwoofing. Record numbers of environmentally conscious young people are volunteering through the organisation Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (Wwoof).
In the UK...(more)
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submitted by Micca for team Urban farming 106 weeks 5 days 4 minutes ago
OK, I'll play in this too -- here is a good video on urban farming in the UK.
This short documentary has some nice information about the background of urban farming and how it can produce a lot of food for cities today.
This one stresses a low...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 107 weeks 1 hour 38 minutes ago
Can two people earn a living wage growing and selling produce within the city of San Francisco? This is the question that Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway set out to answer when they launched Little City Gardens in the Mission District of San Francisco. Armed with...(more)
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submitted by Adam 174 weeks 2 days 16 hours 25 minutes ago
Two 16-year-old Elk Grove boys reported missing in the Eldorado National Forest were found safe today.
Search and rescue efforts were launched near Mormon Emigrant Trail Road after the boys were reported missing at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, said Sgt. Jim Byers, a spokesman for the El Dorado...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 208 weeks 4 days 14 hours 28 minutes ago
A man checking the sprinklers in his backyard Thursday afternoon spotted a mountain lion sprawled across the branches of a redwood tree, looking down at him, state Fish and Game officials said.
Within minutes of the 12:45 p.m. sighting, the Knolls subdivision of Agua Caliente in Sonoma...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 230 weeks 2 days 23 hours 50 minutes ago
In Armstrong Park, black plastic and duct tape conceal one of the many manifestations of the slow-but-steady progress of what could become a major tourist attraction in New Orleans' Treme neighborhood.
The makeshift veil hides one of America's more recognizable icons: an arrowhead-shaped National Park Service sign...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Bicyclism 229 weeks 3 days 17 hours 54 minutes ago
The founder of a Marin-based organization providing bike rides - and bicycles - for underprivileged kids has been nominated in a National Hero Awards contest sponsored by Volvo Cars of North America.
Winners - to be determined by online votes - will receive cash prizes of up...(more)
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submitted by Melly Lu for team kids stuff 257 weeks 5 days 12 hours 52 minutes ago
In the Disney version of her life, Pocahontas is a brave Native American princess who saves the English settlers. Her true story is just as powerful.
Princess Matoaka was born around 1596. Her father, Chief Powhatan, gave her the nickname Pocahontas. She had to be a bit...(more)
