By Amanda Froelich This tree-like skyscraper is capable of growing 24 acres-worth of crops and will be powered entirely by renewable resources. By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to reach 9.7 billion people. Already, 795 million people go to bed hungry each evening. Catching…
By Matt Agorist Kansas City, MO — Every year, for the last five years, volunteers with Kookers Kare – a group of barbecue chefs with hearts as big as their stomachs – have worked together to feed thousands of hungry homeless people. However, this year,…
By Natural Blaze Permaculture homesteader Justin Rhodes successfully raised ten free-range organic turkeys for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays for no cost. In the video below, Justin documents his first attempt at raising turkeys from getting poults to pasture. He recovers his feed costs by…
By Chris “Kikila” Perrin Flint, MI — Like any moment of catastrophe that flitters through the mainstream media, the Flint Water Crisis cannot be boiled down to a moment. With media focus on the disaster coming long after it began and waning before it comes to a conclusion,…
By Cassius Kamarampi and Brandon Turbeville (Era of Wisdom) Brandon Turbeville took a trip to Lebanon, and almost made it to Syria last month, to report on what is really going on. He observed no chemtrails in Lebanon. He said food is generally cheaper there than in the…
By Natural Blaze Brandon Turbeville made a fascinating journey to the Middle East and lives to tell you about it. He is a geopolitical expert and author of 7 books including The Road to Damascus. In this rich conversation, he shares his experience which threatens…
By Amando Flavio Innovations that will make the human race thrive on Earth, saving its finite resources from extinction, are something we should embrace without a second thought. We get our food from plants and animals. As we grow in numbers, so too does the global…
By Lizzie Bennett Do a search for images of malnutrition on any search engine and you will most likely come up with pictures of wide-eyed, big-bellied babies from some part of the developing world. Rarely will you see a child from California, Sydney or London…
By Wenonah Hauter In addition to advising on all three mega-mergers, Credit Suisse is playing a big role behind the scenes of the Dakota Access pipeline. You probably learned in high school that monopolies are bad for consumers; they eliminate the field of competition in the…
By Brianna Acuesta The We Over Me Farm has completely transformed the community. When President Michael J. Sorell took over at Paul Quinn College, a private, historically black college in Texas, the school was just barely getting by. Sorell knew he needed to make some…
By Local.Org Here is a list of 10 things Americans should have been doing to strengthen their communities and empower themselves sociopolitically, economically, and technologically over the past 2 years instead of having obsessed over the ultimately irrelevant process known as Election 2016. It is…
By Amanda Froelich Not only do plants make urban environments more appealing, they also provide CO2 and, according to some studies, help reduce the stress people experience. For this reason, one might imagine that modern cities would be overflowing with green flora, but this is…
By Chris “Kikila” Perrin Over what has been called “a food desert,” rain clouds are gathering, and with them comes much needed access to what very well might be affordable, healthy sustenance. South Bronx, New York, home to no farms and no agricultural production whatsoever,…
By Alex Pietrowski Most of the truly important news of our times goes unnoticed, under-reported or ignored by the corporate media, and as they focus on the ever-evolving narrative of human political drama, we are missing opportunities to participate in the most important struggles of…
By Brandon Turbeville The 31st Farm Aid benefit concert opened with a press conference made up of individuals from a number of different areas. Notably, the performers – Willie Nelson, Sturgill Simpson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Lukas Nelson, Jamey Johnson, John Mellencamp – joined farmers,…
By Christina Sarich An illegal pesticide prone to drift has contaminated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soy and cotton farms across ten states. Pesticide drift from Dicamba has hurt many thousands of crops along America’s farm belt already. Larry Steckel, University of Tennessee weed specialist, says, What’s…
In one way or another, all of us shop for food. Whether it’s online, via subscription meal services, at restaurants, or at the grocery store, we have a lot of decisions about the food we buy and eat. The labels that accompany each food item…
By Christina Sarich Italy just put massive restrictions on the use of Monsanto’s probably carcinogenic herbicide, Roundup, just as studies suggesting it is more toxic than previously assumed come under public scrutiny. Italy’s Ministry of Health has banned the spraying of the main ingredient in…
By Amando Flavio Food wasting has become a serious problem especially in Western countries. It is estimated that about 1.3 billion metric tonnes of food is wasted around the world every year. In the United Kingdom alone, food waste costs about £12.5 billion annually. Apart…
By Justin Gardner The demand for real, local food is growing as more people become aware that agribusiness corporations such as Monsanto, along with lobbying groups like the Grocery Manufacturers Association, have a frightening grip on the nation’s food system. “Big Food” would rather everyone…
