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Fungi Farmer Grows Mushrooms for Slow Food, Medicine, Bioremediation (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycelia, Bioremediation, Paul Stamets, Mushroom Farmer, Medicinal Food, Organic Farmer, Far West Fungi, Slow Food, Moss Landing, Organic Food, Mycelium, Oil Spill Cleanup, Fungi Farmer, Healing Food, Ian Garrone, Farmer, Mycoremediation, San Francisco, Organic Mushrooms, Mycelium Running, Video, Food News
Kirsten Dirksen

Can mushrooms save the world?

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After Immigration Crackdown, Farmers Mull Planting

AP | KATE BRUMBACK | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Video, Alabama, Undocumented Immigrants, Farmers, Illegal Immigration, Farmer, Immigration, Georgia, Latino Voices News

ATLANTA — It's unclear whether farmers in Georgia and Alabama will face a shortage of workers due to tough new laws targeting illegal immigratio...

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REPORT: More U.S. Farmers Relying On Internet

AP | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Video, Technology Farming, Farmers Internet, Farming Technology, US Farmer, Internet Farmers, Farmers, Farmer, Farm Internet, Farmers Technology, Technology News

FRESNO, Calif. (GOSIA WOZNIACKA, AP) -- Think of farms and images of tractors and combines come to mind. But what about laptops, smart phones and tabl...

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Weekly Audit: Massive Protest In Wisconsin Shows Walker's Overreach

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Rights, Collective Bargaining, Tractorcade, Poll, The Nation, Firefighter, Republican, Alternet, Steve Benen, Senator, Broke, Scott Walker, Protest, E.J. Dionne, Bank, M&I, Union, Jamelle Bouie, Budget, Washington Monthly, Wisconsin Democratic Party, Election, Enthusiasm Gap, Tapped, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Koch, JoAnne Kloppenburg, SIMEON TALLEY, Madison, Roger Bybee, Farmer, Working in These Times, Recall, John Nichols, Inequality, Senate, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective...

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It's Time to Stand Up for Our Farmers' Markets

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Animal Welfare, Sustainable Food, Animal Welfare Approved, Farmers Markets, Farmer, Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture, Food News
Andrew Gunther

Without clear definition and effective regulation, the farmers' market might become yet another victim of the cynical "big retailers." It's time to get behind it.

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How Do Human Rights Activists Protect Themselves?

Matt Easton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights, Indonesia, Activism, Colombia, Zimbabwe, Union Organizer, Front Line, Farmer, Stigmatization, Munir, Islamic Defenders Front, World News
Matt Easton

An Indonesian rights lawyer is fatally poisoned on a flight. State agents abduct a Zimbabwean activist and hold her incommunicado. These shocking incidents occur in a context of routine surveillance.

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Astoria Characters: The Garden Guys

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Almonds, Olives, Fig Tree, Hazen Street, New Year's Day, Italy, Astoria, Verni's Garden Center, Grocery, Colorado, Canada, Orchid, Frank Verni, Nancy Ruhling, Army, Vietnam, Farmer, 21st Street, Geranium, Cancer, Christmas Tree, John Verni, Tomatoes, Lumberyard, New York News, Bari, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

2010-08-11-Screenshot20100811at11.02.34AM.jpg At the end of Hazen Street, where the cars on Astoria Boulevard whoosh by like rockets, a garden center grows.

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Two-Headed Calf Born In Egypt, Farmer Calls It 'Miracle'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal News, Cows, Egyptian Farmer, Egypt, Cow With Two Heads, Calf With Two Heads, Agriculture, Farmer, Anatomical Wonders, World News

(AP) CAIRO -- A farmer in northern Egypt says his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf that he calls a "divine miracle." Sobhy el-Ganzoury said S...

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Biodiversity Remakes Tokyo

Jared Braiterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soil, Air Quality, River, Bicycling, Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Satoyama, Walking, National Security, Urban Forest, Falcon, Biodiversity, Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference, Tokyo, Crime Reduction, Transit, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Elderly, Wall, Yamada Yoriyuki, Forest, Iimura Kazuki, Wilderness, Blur, Sustainable, Places, Plants, Rice, Kobayashi Kenji, Farmer, Energy Independence, Remake, Reforestation, Wildlife, Population, Ginza Bee Project, Street, Cultural, Food Safety, Passion, Pollution, Urban, Culture, Climate Change, Bee, Suzuki Makoto, Post-Industrial, Lot, Roof, Miniaturization, Public Health, City, Habitat, Growth, Public, Ginza Farm, Gardener, Nature, Paddy, Pet, Environment, Firefly, Ginza, Edo, Kajima, Green News
Jared Braiterman

The Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference addresses unparalleled environmental crisis and the need to transform our relationship with nature. Many p...

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The Texas Drought, The Florida Chill -- Climate Change?

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Research Institute for Climate and Societ, Nasa, Cold, Near Freezing, Knight Foundation, Knight Center for International Media, Poll, Pollution, Temperature, Drought, Don A. Wilhite, Climate Change, Washington Post, Michael J. Hayes, Global Warming, Ben Kirtman, Rancher, Abc, El Niño Effect, Florida, Texas Drought Project, Lisa Goddard, Scientist, Texas, Survey, Knight Center, Weather, University of Miami, La Niña Effect, John Nielsen-Gammon, Columbia University, Apathy, Noaa, Pew Research Center, Farmer, Environment, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Fluctuation, Miami Herald, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Widespread confusion over short-term fluctuations in temperature and long-term trends is causing concern among the majority of scientists who are convinced that climate change is happening.

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