Elmer Moje has been a fixture at the North Tonawanda farmers market in New York since 1918. When he was five, Moje started working at the market helping his father sell fruits, vegetables, and grains from their 81-acre farm. He also sold butter that he personally hand-churned. The market has drastically changed in the last century. In 1918 it was much smaller than today, there were live chickens for sale, and the primary mode of transportation was horse and wagon.[...]
American’s produce tons of trash and drive their cars 1,000s of miles a year, both of these actions have a negative impact on the environment. Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels wants combine these two problems and create one affordable solution. The company has just received a $105 million dollar federal loan as part of the USDA’s Rural Development Biorefinery Assistance Program. The loan will be used to secure funding from a bank to build an ethanol refinery plant outside of Reno, Nevada.[...]
Humans have had a love hate relationship with sharks for centuries; their sheer power and beautiful grace has mesmerized us for 25 summers of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. This year’s Shark Week begins on August 12th falling just weeks after a fatal bull shark attack on Reunion Island (a French island) led to the proposal of a controversial measure where the government would pay fisherman to cull the native predator, by any means necessary. Last week’s attack marked the seventh[...]
In Maureen McCarthy’s recent post on the Scientific American blog, she explains that animals have home ranges. These ranges are an amount of land, that varies among species, on which individuals live and forage/hunt. In many cases these ranges are in danger because of deforestation caused by humans living close by. McCarthy’s research revealed that in the case of chimps, females have a favorite place inside their home range. Here is where they raise their young. Often times when adult[...]
Elmer Moje has been a fixture at the North Tonawanda farmers market in New York since 1918. When he was five, Moje started working at the market helping his father sell fruits, vegetables, and grains from their 81-acre farm. He also sold butter that he personally hand-churned. The market has drastically changed in the last century. In 1918 it was much smaller than today, there were live chickens for sale, and the primary mode of transportation was horse and wagon.[...]
A few weeks ago I posted about “smeat”, which is meat that is grown in a laboratory without having to raise animals and then slaughter them for food. In August PayPal cofounder Peter Theil’s foundation funded Modern Meadow and their research into 3-D bioprint meat and leather. Modern Meadow’s cofounder and CEO said their investigation will start with in vitro leather production. The main reason is that leather is much easier to produce than meat. Click here to read[...]
Our food choices are affected by many different factors, two of those elements might be the healthiness of a food item and the impact that choosing that particular item may have on the environment. Luckily, with regards to seafood and fish consumption they are one and the same. The Ecological Society of America published a study by Leah Gerber that asserted that fish and seafood species that are sustainably managed are better for your health than there non-sustainable counterparts. The[...]
Several months ago DC laid out plans for a green and sustainable future for the city. Following the report’s release there was some discussion of removing bottled water from government meetings and using glasses or reusable bottles instead. Many people oppose bottled water because of the addition waste created when the one time use bottle is finished. In addition, bottle water must be trucked in, which creates extra pollution. Last week the bottled water debate heated up again, this time[...]
The National Park Service (NPS) is about to celebrate its 96th birthday. The government organization that manages national parks and national monuments in the US. The problem is that many people are concerned about the state of our national parks on NPS’s 100th birthday, because of massive budget shortfalls are threaten its ability to maintain our parks and facilitate tourists. For a little background, NPS began in 1916 when President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill that mandated the Department of[...]