Monday, April 4, 2011

Organic News 04-04-11


Dog's life when vet's bills start to bite
Irish Times
Her rabbit is living on organic parsley. I know another rabbit – yes, I am very lucky. This rabbit is biting people's ankles quite a bit at the moment, as he hops around the kitchen. “It's because he needs a girlfriend,” said his child owners, ...

Costa Rica Retirement: The Best Things in Life Are Free
The Costa Rica News
Local organic coffee is a bargain at the local farmer's market. There is great variation in prices between stores, as Layne and I discovered on a trip to MultiPlaza in Escazu, one of the upscale communities where many Gringos reside. ...


The Costa Rica News
The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses
The Business Insider
Talking to customers convinced the team that the need for robotic weeding was high, there was a larger potential market (organic crop production is doubling every 4 years and accelerating,) and they could make organic produce more affordable (labor ...
Battle between chemical and organic fertilizer lobbies
DailyIndia.com
But we would be living in a fool's paradise if we mistake this growth for social commitment or the responsibility for ensuring that this will secure the lives of the thousands of farmers and agricultural labourers. What is crucial is to view the ...
"Living Downstream" screening at the Colonial tonight!
VillageSoup Belfast
Co-sponsored by the Belfast Co-op, Environmental Health Strategy Center and the Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association. For more information about the film, visit: www.livingdownstream.com For more information about the film screening, ...

VillageSoup Belfast
Ancient ocean 'dead zone' delayed life after mass extinction
Tehran Times
At the same time, organic matter and nutrients were being taken out of circulation as they were deposited on the seafloor, allowing biological productivity to return to normal, Meyer said. Life on land at the time — insects, amphibians, the ancestors ...
Shelley Jackson, Skin, Berkeley Art Museum
Daily Californian
But when human beings are the materials of the artist's project, the piece becomes a living body, dependent on the organic vivacity of its material. "Skin," an ongoing project by artist Shelley Jackson posted in part on the Berkeley Art Museum's NetArt ...