A Lesson in Ecovillages: How “The Farm” Fared in the 21st Century
VIDEO: THE FARM Their idealism gave rise to the local and organic food movement. Some stayed, most left. It’s been forty years since busloads of hippies caravanned to Tennessee to go “back to the land,” and create a commune — The Farm. The seeds they planted helped give rise to today’s organics movement.
Whitebark Pine Trees In Danger of Extinction from Climate Change
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service found that thewhitebark pine tree should be listed as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. Specifically, the Service concluded that the threats whitebark faces, including climate change, are of such a high magnitude and are so pressing that whitebark pine is in danger of extinction.
New Comedy Blog Smiles: Swiss Film Contestant Evokes Coincidence
Monsieur Du Lit is a short film comedy nominated for the Swiss Film Hotel Award 2011. The film is based on the idea of a talking bed telling us about all kind of intersting guests sleeping in the luxury suite and doing strange things…
Livestock in the Face of Natural Gas Drilling
Unlike many in agriculture, cattle farmer Ken Jaffe has had a good decade. But lately he’s been nervous, worried fracking will destroy his business. Jaffe’s been good to his soil, and the land has been good to him. By rotating his herd of cattle to different pastures on his…
Community Gardening
At this Elementary School, Erie Fresh, partnered with Kid Fit Sandusky, has started an after school program allowing kids to learn about growing plants and getting their hands a little dirty in the process. The kids learn everything that they need to know about starting and caring for their own garden…
Taking Back Control: Slaying the Price of Food
In close examination of history there is always a common thread to relate to present times. And we use these threads to come up with solutions to modern problems that are facing the masses of the community or nation. You’ve heard it been said, that history repeats itself and it certainly does.
Poetry: Great Plains Miniature
Through hills,
Through sand,
Scrub pine,
Switch grass,
Panic grass,
Fire.
The Examination of Community: laying the foundation
Community is defined as a group with common interests or origins. Often when we think of a community we think of the typical small town where everything is in walking distance and the downtown is a welcoming place to be. Unfortunately, due to the ever growing suburbs and necessity of the automobile…
Dirt: A Look at Civilization in the Ground
This program is about the ways we interact with our environment. Or, when it comes to dirt, how we do our best not to. And yet, dirt is unavoidable. We live on a great big ball of it – we walk on it and grow our food in it. So why are we so afraid of dirt?
Life in the Clouds: The Ladybug Wish Highway
NPR takes us on a journey thousands of feet into the sky to find trillions of insects riding along the Jet stream. This animated visual experience opens our minds to an insect we thought never travelled beyond the backyard.
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