Showing posts with label Organic news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Organic news. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2014

Program replants dead desert plants near Las Vegas - San Francisco Chronicle

On a trash-strewn patch of desert several miles northwest of ... As a dead yucca breaks down, it releases organic material into an ........ read more

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Organic News 5-5-11


Recycle, build a 'canjo,' and take in free music
Hometownlife.com
Green Street Fair, Inc. was founded to help educate and inform people of all ages about the benefits of green, organic, and eco-friendly products and services. To promote global interest and personal well-being, the Green Street Fair blends companies, ...

SUSTAINABLE LIVING- Celebrate Mother Earth and Mom This Year
San Fernando Valley Sun
His company, Organic Bouquet, is one of the companies trying to establish a niche market for organic flowers in the US market. Another green entrepreneur, Josh Dautoff in Watsonville, Calif., converted his parents' chemically reliant fields and ...
The non-organic future
Marketplace
As most others, I found the NoN Organic Food story prejudiced, poorly researched and very disappointing. Many important points have been made by others. What I will add to the conversation is the idea of vertical farming: high rise farms for living and ...

Marketplace
Make a Green Mom Happy
Patch.com
Fresh, local and organic food is the start of a chain of events that help our planet greatly from less shipping to less packaging, waste and garbage, not to mention the support to local farmers and the health benefits of eating local, seasonal food. ...
Grow, harvest, sell & swap
Vancouver Sun
However, for Anna-Monique West, a designer and gardener living in the vibrant, small-town neighbourhood of Inglewood in Calgary, there was something she couldn't find. Like many of us, West had decided that she would begin to live closer to the earth: ...

" Top Ten Planets"
411mania.com
Its lush greenery, elaborate landscapes, and near mystical organic inhabitants are a wonder to behold and breathtaking to see come to life. Pandora is as much a character in the film as the humans and Na'vi. After their defeat at the end of Star Wars: ...


411mania.com
South Hill artist finds inspiration in transposing elements
The Spokesman Review
Upon entering Michael Sherriffs Hall's South Hill home, you are at once transported into a gallery of strange landscapes where even the figurative pieces appear organic. In the main living room, more than a dozen square canvases, some stacked by threes ...
The Resource Center's RECREATE: A Celebration of Urban Life
ChicagoPride.com
The evening will be a celebration of all things green, featuring Hors D'oeuvres courtesy of prasino, an eco-friendly restaurant with an emphasis on seasonal, locally-grown organic fare, which already has locations in St. Charles and LaGrange ...
  

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Organic News 5-4-11


Kosher Organic Sweet Treats Are Also Eco-Friendly
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Both dads were committed to feeding their children only healthy, hormone-free organic foods, and each struggled to find snacks and desserts that qualified without tasting like cardboard. Originally from Mexico City, Bica was living in Los Angeles with ...


The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
A living lesson on bamboo
San Luis Obispo Tribune
If you have heavy clay soil, add organic material when planting, or mulch heavily to attract earthworms. Because bamboo is a forest plant, it does best with a layer of mulch over its roots and rhizomes. You can simply allow fallen leaves to collect at ...

“I Heard That”: SFJAZZ Presents Living Legend BUDDY GUY; The STANDBY; Glen ...
Beyond Chron
Mingled with festival-goers, cheered by the laughter of playful children; observed the many booths selling art, jewelry; enjoyed LUMPIA (SOOO good) from HAPA SF, Modern organic Filipino cuisine, served from the Filipino mobile van, parked at Diamond ...

Beyond Chron
Rio Ferdinand – red devil turned unlikely green guru
The Guardian
"We grow organic food in the garden," he says, "we've got a little vegetable garden with a greenhouse where we grow tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and strawberries." Any tips for other green-fingered types? "Tomatoes are the easiest. Green beans as well. ...

Sunflower Farmers Market Enhances Online Strategy To Engage
Grocery Retail Online
Sunflower Farmers Market offers a variety of natural and organic foods through its store departments, including a Fruits and Vegetables Department that is home to a variety of seasonal, specialty, and local produce; a Meat and Fish Department that ...
Family Roundup: How to Get Out of the School Lunch Slump
Patch.com
She is also the co-producer and host of the popular on-line cooking show, Cookus Interruptus, which shows how to cook family-pleasing meals from organic ingredients, despite life's interruptions. She recommends bento box style containers including ...

Researchers create perfect Texas lawn
Austin News
"You really want to get a good six inches of loose soil with a bit of organic matter and a good quality compost and then put your seed on top of that." In order to properly create this lawn it means tearing out the grass that is currently covering your ...

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Organic News 5-03-11


Grower prepares a living legacy
Stuff.co.nz
SLICES OF HEAVEN: Dieter Proebst prepares samples of more than 100 varieties of apples for what was likely to be the last tasting day at his organic orchard. Treedimensions, the Motueka organic orchard business which has been dedicated to preserving ...

Stuff.co.nz
Practically Green: Bring lawn back to life using natural techniques
Memphis Commercial Appeal
This is why most people shy away from organic lawn care. There's no broadleaf weed killer. But, if I follow the program, (chop off their heads in the spring and make my soil and grass happy enough to choke the life out of future generations) weeds may ...
Organic Oscar™ Launches All-Natural Organic Dog Grooming Products Unique to ...
Business Wire (press release)
“We wanted to create a line of products that reflect a healthy and holistic lifestyle for ourselves and our dogs,” said Marie Svet, co-founder of Organic Oscar™. “Because I was committed to living a healthy life, I naturally went in search of pet ...
Neo-Network: Mimi's Organic Exchange
Chicagoist
After a chance conversation about proactive and holistic approaches to health and living, Clayton decided that people did not just need a network, but an organic one. By definition, organic is “of, relating or derived from living organisms. ...
Down-to-earth info and ideas at Green Earth Fair in Naperville
Chicago Sun-Times
“We always have presentations about nutritional issues and how to better feed ourselves as well as becoming more 'green' in our daily living,” Tiwald said. “Every year, people also enjoy our organic gardening and lawn care presentations as well as ...
Is it really a Gaudí?
Archinect
It cannot overcome the central paradox, which is that Gaudí's architecture was organic, living and responsive, whereas posthumous simulation of his ideas makes them fixed and lifeless. The fusion, the melting, the integration of structure and ornament ...

Assisted Living Websites: Optify Study Shows Higher Rankings are Key
SeniorHomes.com
But if you're not immersed in SEO or SEM on a day-to-day basis, you may not have given thought to how all these changes affect your organic CTR (Click-Through-Rate). That's okay, because the folks at Optify have—in fact, they've given a lot of thought ...
Frugal Family: Deals You Won't Want to Miss
Patch.com
Right now you can get $35 worth of beautiful flowers from FTD for just $15 at Living Social. Friends, this deal is not just for the men in the house. Don't forget your moms, mother-in-laws and grandmothers either. Organic Baby: Also at Living Social ...

Shanghai Organic
China International Business
Adding to the challenge, Zhang and his 10 employees also struggled to convince the local farmers he employs, who make a living by selling their crops, to 'rest' the land for three years. "That was our biggest challenge in the beginning, ...


China International Business
A moving crescendo
Independent Online
Yet, at the best of times it's problematic to trans-form this into a stirring, and more specifically, into an organic drama with many dimensions and layers, which is at the same time artistically a truly operatic entity. One cannot bypass the art ...


Independent Online

Monday, May 2, 2011

Organic News 5-02-11


Market@Masdar City showcases eco-living
Khaleej Times
Masdar City, designated by Etihad Airways as an 'Essential Abu Dhabi Tourist Destination', hosted 'The Market @ Masdar City' to give visitors a taste of eco-living. The programme, first-of-a-kind, family-focused street fair and organic market, ...

Bamboo spun with harsh chemicals to make textiles
Toronto Star
“Soma Organic Mattresses wants everyone to enjoy the Bamboo Experience by visiting our booth at the Green Living Show in Toronto April 15-17,” read the online invitation at somasleep.wordpress.com, before last weekend's consumer exhibit at the Direct ...
Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand
Astrobiology Magazine
The controversial Viking experiment caused NASA to turn to the basics, and look for the liquid water and organic molecules that life on Earth needs for its survival. That's been the focus of missions like the Phoenix lander, the Mars Exploration Rovers ...

Astrobiology Magazine
Seeds of change: New farmers running smaller operations invigorate Maine's ...
Mainebiz Daily
In 2002, they enrolled in the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association journeyperson program, a two-year training, mentoring and business-planning course for prospective farmers. After farming stints in Cape Elizabeth and Cumberland, ...
PRESS TRIP INVITATION TO ITALY: ORGANIC FARM, INN & COOKING SCHOOL WITH WINE ...
TravPR.com (press release)
Experience Slow Food & Slow Travel, living as the locals and enjoy the culture, food & wine of undiscovered Le Marche. Including a VIP wine tour and "farm to fork" cooking classes and stay at an organic farm, inn & Cooking School in Central Italy. ...
Are we nearly there yet? Family sell everything they own to travel 8000 miles ...
Daily Mail
Author Nicole came up with the idea to document their journey for a book on the secrets of organic farming. Due to be published in 2012, The Organic Farmer's Sourcebook will be aimed at helping new farmers succeed in creating their own successful farms ...

Daily Mail
Show her the money
Sydney Morning Herald
My expenses were all the things that made daily, upper-middle-class family life possible: piano lessons, organic strawberries, martial arts classes, swimming lessons, birthday parties. My then husband was (and still is) a lawyer with a corporate legal ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Organic News 4-30-11

   How to make the perfect recession martini
Salon
More: Felisa Rogers By Felisa Rogers 3-year-old Zoie helps out in the kitchen at McKenzie River Organic Farm. With all the folderol around eating local, very few of us know what eating local really entails, or tastes like, for that matter. ...

Salon
For a life beyond cages
The Hindu
Unfortunately, most eco-feminists in India, while taking up cudgels for organic farming and rural livelihoods, remain silent on the issue of animal exploitation. In the face of such a genocide, abolition is but a plaintive ideal. ...


The Hindu
Documentary envisions future of sustainable local food systems
West Central Tribune
WILLMAR — In one of the scenes in Chris Bedford's new documentary about sustainable food, residents of the Jackson Hill neighborhood in Muskegon, Mich., reflect on the bounty of an organic community garden they established together. ...

Street fair offers a taste of the future
The National
Organic food was on sale at Market@Masdar, a family day and farmers market promoting green living at Masdar City. Crowds of youngsters gathered at the fair for a chance to hold a rabbit in the kids' corner. A face-painting station and a crafts area, ...

The National
Organic skincare and hair products can trigger allergies
The Seattle Times
Online message boards like the Allergic Living Talking Allergies Forum (www.allergicliving.com/forum) offer commiseration and the latest news on companies that have reformulated products with no warning (the newish fragrance-free version of Burt's Bees ...
A bug's life
BBC News
The rain-fed streams are brown from organic matter, while spring-fed ones are clear. "These five types of fly larvae can only live in this type of glacier-fed streams," he explains. "'The streams have a particular combination of low levels of minerals, ...


BBC News
Mitzi Dulan: The Hidden Truth About Food Labels
Opposing Views
The term “Organic” is a generic term used by manufacturers who meet organic standards determined by the USDA. Some general meanings of organic include “of living things” and “derived naturally” although for some organic products those meanings can be ...

Opposing Views
Easter celebration, observances didn't end last Sunday
Pueblo Chieftain
The whole of the paschal celebration unfolding in our lives is an organic process that includes five moments. First, Good Friday, includes the loss of life, coping with change and naming our losses. Second, Easter Sunday, is the reception of new life, ...

Spring brings plant sales galore to Asheville area
Asheville Citizen-Times
HERB FESTIVAL: Products, experts, cookbooks, organic gardening information and Master Gardeners to answer questions. 9 am-5 pm today and 10 am-3 pm Sunday, WNC Farmers' Market, Brevard Road, Asheville. Free admission. www.ashevilleherb FRENCH BROAD ...

Friday, April 29, 2011

Organic News 4-29-11


Step into The Cayenne Room, a New Blog Exploring Paths to Healthy and ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Frontier Natural Products Co-op™, a leading US supplier of organic herbs, spices, and teas, has launched its new blog, The Cayenne Room. Topics will range from flavorful recipes, profiles from inside Frontier, portraits of partner farmers and growers, ...
Respect Living Beings
Santa Barbara Independent
Go organic if you want to control weeds and fertilize your plants. There are many all-natural products on the market that won't cause damage to animals or humans. Your child will learn at an early age that there are natural, nontoxic ways to control ...
The Living Seed Company Offers Rare Seed Varieties
Triple Pundit
Step into The Living Seed Company, a small California business that offers the highest-quality of seeds that grow to be flavorful and nutritious. Each of the seed varieties are 100% open-pollinated, organic or grown on small natural farms, non-GMO, ...

Triple Pundit
India agrees to phase out pesticide endosulfan
Economic Times
This means endosulfan will be listed in Annexe A of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants but exemptions will allowed for crop-pest combinations. It will allow India to continue to use this broad spectrum pesticide. ...
Allergies Can Be Natural, Too
Ocala
For her firstborn son, Waylon, she used biodynamic calendula-based products anointed by NaTrue, an international third-party certifier of natural and organic skincare and cosmetics. But her second, Amos, now 2 1/2, is gooped up with Hydrolatum, ...
The Joy of Soy: 2011 Living Green Expo Showcases Benefits of 'The Clean, Green ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"Soy biobased products often have lower volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and less toxicity than the products they replace, something many consumers are looking for in the products they buy." The free weekend event, which draws thousands of visitors, ...
Getting to Know Dry-Shade-Loving Plants
Patch.com
Three other ladies and I arrived at 10 am for organic coffee and cookies. The day's topic? Dry-shade planting. Dry-shade plants are a special type of plant that flourish in shady areas where this isn't a lot of moisture. Early on in our coffee break, ...
Save our soil
Hindu Business Line
Elaborating further he says, “As the plants grow together, evaporation losses are greatly reduced, thanks to dense shade which in turn leads to rapid regeneration of the organic life of the soil. The result: all-round healthy and fruitful growth.”

Hindu Business Line

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Organic News 4-28-11

 EXCLUSIVE: Maria Menounos On Living Green, Organic Gardening, And Her New Book
Ecorazzi
However, I couldn't leave being green out of the book because a greener lifestyle in the end is a healthier, more practical and more cost effective way of life which is so organic to the core values of Maria: I became conscious of it when I began ...

Bulgaria's organic food production up 15%: association chairman
Focus News
One of the events is an exhibition of tourist and organic products. According to Popyordanov consumers' confidence in organic production is strengthening. This type of food is more expensive and green houses are not a cheap place for living, he said. ...
Living the Green Life Award
Patch.com
Walk along a gravel side path and through the wood gate to the backyard, and you will find an oasis of organic vegetables, herbs, and fruit trees. If you look up above the back patio, you will see solar panels on the roof. A rollable composter rests ...
A living sculpture
Sheboygan Press
All hour-long tours begin at 3 pm and cost $10 (free with proof of admission to the Milwaukee Art Museum's exhibit, "Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century"). Children under age 18 are admitted free. Reservations are required and ...
Allergies Can Be Natural, Too
New York Times
Wenonah Madison-Sauer switched to traditional skin treatments for Amos, 2 1/2, when he displayed allergic reactions to organic brands. By ALEXANDRA ZISSU WENONAH MADISON-SAUER, 36, co-owner of a farm and take-out restaurant on Martha's Vineyard, ...

New York Times
At Gladstone Center, children and seniors sow an organic garden and a partnership
OregonLive.com
Grisham is one of 20 volunteers from the Somerset Assisted Living Facility in Gladstone who is helping children at the center plant an organic garden. Kathy Hartlaub, the coordinator at the Gladstone center, said it is like "one-stop shopping" for ...

OregonLive.com
In Southern Maryland, being 'green' is a way of life
Washington Post
Tutman said he wants to see sustainable living depart from its “niche” role so that it is not in constant competition with options that are more convenient or inexpensive. “It's like the organic section of the supermarket. It's great, but it doesn't ...
Petaluma egg farm at center of debate over organic rules
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
“What impressed us was Steve provides excellent living conditions for his chickens, lots of sunlight, lots of fresh air,” Siemon said. The co-op made an exception in granting membership to Mahrt even though his hens don't ever touch outdoor soil and ...
Organic Crib Mattress for the Masses
Babble (blog)
Natalie Holbrook is a first-time mom and second-time New Yorker, living in a teensy apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She loves a good Diet Coke, wandering aimlessly, and believes you can solve any of life's problems by asking 'What Would Anne ...
Design: The ingenuity of living
Diamondback Online
Wright emphasized privacy and "organic" architecture, incorporating wide-open spaces, low rooflines and seamless transition to the outdoors, ideas that have become common practice today. But Wright went beyond his contemporaries in implementing these ...
 

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Organic News 04-26-11

 
Think soil, says organic lawn expert
Kimberley Daily Bulletin
The natural fertilizer is living organisms in the soil, like earthworms. The soil is alive. When we fertilize we are bypassing the natural process, killing all those organisms." A lot of organic lawn care is common sense, he says, like leaving grass ...
Novel Microorganism 'Nitrososphaera Viennensis' Isolated
Medical News Today (press release)
Life on Earth would be impossible, without the metabolic capacities of the smallest of all living forms, the Bacteria and the Archaea. These microorganisms play a central role in global nutrient cycles, because they degrade organic matter to the ...
Real Naked Food promotes real, naked lifestyle
Video Gaga - Chicago Tribune (blog)
A former pharmaceutical sales and surgical-device rep, Yucan wasn't always as focused on organic living. She spent a lot of time in hospitals, so she saw only one side of health: the medical side. She sold an anti-inflammatory drug that was a ...
Take a 'Trip to the Tip' with Living Smart
Bellingen Courier Sun
Recyclables from the yellow-lidded bins are collected and sorted and organic waste from the green-lidded bins is turned into A grade compost that is sold. The mixed waste from the red-lidded bins is also processed to recover any recyclables and organic ...
Joe Gardener On Going Green
Today's Garden Center
And I'm not talking organic. As for living an overall more sustainable life and making responsible choices, I'm learning that we're not going to convert everyone. Some people will not look past their own generation, nor will they change their lifestyle ...

Today's Garden Center
Midori Salon & Spa: A Natural Choice For Owner Amber Holland
Patch.com
By Jennifer Akers | Email the author | 4:52pm Amber Holland's organic salon helped her realize something greater than her childhood dream: a chance to boost women's self-esteem and help the environment. The vibe in Midori Salon and Spa, is serene and ...