by Admin | Jan 13, 2017 | Business, Sustainability
Sundrop Farms has just made history. The Australian company is the first agribusiness to grow tomatoes using solar power and desalinated water. This marks a major turning point in sustainable agriculture. It proves that crops can be harvested on a mass scale with...
by Admin | Dec 2, 2016 | Sustainability
Though it tends to get ignored in favor of the more dramatic (and obvious) dangers posed by fossil fuels, the meat industry is a huge contributing factor in global climate change. This happens in a couple of ways. For one, animals like cows produce a lot of methane,...
by Admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Green Energy, Sustainability
Alternative energy sources have been growing in popularity in recent years, especially solar and wind power. However, excess energy still needs to be stored for when days are overcast or the air is still. To keep up with an increasing trend of generating electricity...
by Admin | Sep 21, 2016 | Resources, Sustainability
Canvas shopping bags have become an everyday part of life. Many stores and farmers’ market vendors have stopped giving away plastic bags, expecting customers to bring their own canvas bags or selling paper bags for a nominal price. Some cities have banned plastic bags...
by Admin | Sep 14, 2016 | Climate Change, Information, Sustainability
In discussions about climate change, carbon dioxide gets a lot of the attention, but about 16 percent of the greenhouse gases created by human activity consists of methane, and about one-third of those methane emissions are produced by cattle. The roughly one billion...
