Organic Strawberries Have Better Taste & Nutrition Than Conventional & Better For Soil Too: New Study
photo: Dave Parker via flickr
In the tug of war over whether organic farming is really better than conventional chemical-laden farming, a new study in the online peer-reviewed journal PLoS One comes out solidly in support of the benefits of organic. Self-described as the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers from Washington State University found that commercial organic farms produce was more…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Elephants: Indias New “National Heritage Animal” To Receive Same Protection As Tigers
Photo: Elephant being bathed in a temple in Thrissur (K.C. Sowmish via The Hindu)
As long-standing icons of its unique cultural psyche, India’s threatened elephants are finally getting the protection — and well-deserved recognition — they need. In a bid for better conservation, earlier this week the Indian government formally declared the elephant its “national heritage animal”, elevating the legendary pachyderm alongside the likes of the majestic tiger, in the hopes of averting a future con…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Organic Strawberries Have Better Taste & Nutrition Than Conventional & Better For Soil Too: New Study
photo: Dave Parker via flickr
In the tug of war over whether organic farming is really better than conventional chemical-laden farming, a new study in the online peer-reviewed journal PLoS One comes out solidly in support of the benefits of organic. Self-described as the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers from Washington State University found that commercial organic farms produce was more…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Organic Strawberries Have Better Taste & Nutrition Than Conventional & Better For Soil Too: New Study
photo: Dave Parker via flickr
In the tug of war over whether organic farming is really better than conventional chemical-laden farming, a new study in the online peer-reviewed journal PLoS One comes out solidly in support of the benefits of organic. Self-described as the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers from Washington State University found that commercial organic farms produce was more…Read the full story on TreeHugger
“Clean Coal” Positioned To Be The High End Energy Product No One Can Afford
Taylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed “clean coal” power plant. Image credit:Illinois Times
Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has good geologic features for CO2 sequestration, plus Presidential root tendrils are there. These aspects explain, in a last-year kind of way, why Obama’s Energy Department supports this $3.5 billion fantasy. (Several major conceptual design changes have been made since the Bush Ad…Read the full story on TreeHugger
