Vertical Space as a Solution to Food Production in Urban Environments

It has become increasingly clear that moving toward a more sustainable agricultural system means finding ways to produce more of our food supply locally. Cutting edge research is being conducted aboard a barge on the Hudson River - research that hearkens back to the early days of such sustainable agricultural pioneers as the New Alchemy institute in Woods Hole Massachusetts and the Permaculture Institute in NH (here's a bit of interesting trivia - Stoneyfield Yogurt Founder Gary Hirshberg was one of the original founders of the Permaculture Institute in Wilton, NH.).






Building a homemade hydroponic system



Longview Cows

Invisible Disaster: Fall Migration over the Gulf

Billions of birds will migrate this fall to a Gulf Coast filled with insidious threats. As green herons, yellowlegs and flocks of others land in oily marshes to feed on contaminated fish, these birds may suffer from the most grueling migration of their lives -- with tragic but unseen consequences. Read the article.



Bench Panorama

The Ideology of a Cancer Cell

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
- Edward Abbey


Two Falls



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3 Small Cap “Save the Gulf Companies"

3 Small Cap “Save the Gulf Companies" - (OTC: GNOLF, MOPN, EVTN)

Date: June 1, 2010 12:59 PM

Publisher: DRanieri

Categories: bloo, US Markets

Tags: Bloomberg, bloomberg, EVTN, Financial, GNOLF, Gulf Coast, MOPN, Oil Spill, OTC, Stocks, World Market Media

Here are 3 Companies which focus on separation solutions as a way to help solve the Gulf Coast Oil Spill

MOP Environmental Solutions Inc. (OTC: MOPN)

New Hampshire-based MOP promotes a patented product, MOP Maximum Oil Pick Up, which can clean up oil spills, while at the same time also recover the spilled material. MOP is promoting itself diligently by saying that its patented product is the ultimate solution for protecting ecosystems along the coastline from hazardous oil spills. The company also claims that, unlike competitors, its solution is 100% biodegradable and 100% recycled. Charles Diamond, MOP’s president and CEO, has said that that its product outperforms every other sorbent, both on oil pick up per pound and cost per pound basis. He also said that the company’s product is the best solution for oil spills like the one in the Gulf of Mexico.

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"We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
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Financial Times Covers MOP Demonstration

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Is the other BP Well in Trouble?

Inside sources say that a rumor is sweeping the gulf that the second BP well in the area is in trouble. Our sources say its true but BP is keeping it under wraps. No way to know unless it begins to manifest.

Who Owns the Oil Spilled in the Gulf of Mexico?

With news that fisherman and others trying to protect their own waterfront areas are being arrested if they are acting without authority from BP, on charges of stealing oil, it is worth asking the question "Who really owns the oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico?

Currently BP is asserting ownership of the oil. Yet I believe that a storng case could be made in a court, or a congressional action could be taken, that rules this oil to be abandoned property. Under the law of the sea, I believe that would ean that anyone who picked up the oil was entitled to it.

Such a clarification could open up new opportunities to those who seek to protect the shoreline areas and those opportunities might at least pay for themselves through revenues derived from sale of the oil. At the very least it would prevent the abuse of power currently being visited on folks who are just trying to protect their own property. There is no good reason to be arresting people who seek only to protect what they already have a legal right to protect in almost every other conceivable way.