85% Of Foods Tested Contaminated With Pesticides: I don't think folks realize how big of a problem this is. Unfortunately eating organic isn't the answer -- it's a bandaid at best. The trouble is pesticide drift and ground water movement and subsoil water movement means most fields and the food they grow are contaminated - just perhaps less so. What's needed is an overall nationwide reduction in the amount of pesticide use. This is the move pressing environmental/health issue of our time. www.ecowatch.com/usda-pesticide-exposure-2105041546.html
http://earthship.com/ Sustainable Housing. Low energy input. Built in greenhouse.
Great Plains Lost More Habitat In 2014 than Brazil. Excerpt: "...“America’s Great Plains are being plowed under at an alarming rate,” said Martha Kauffman, WWF’s managing director of the Northern Great Plains program. “Centuries old, critical prairie habitat that’s home to amazing wildlife and strong ranching and tribal communities is rapidly being converted to cropland and most people don’t even realize it.”
The staggering rate of conversion also jeopardizes the ecological services the Great Plains provide, like filtering trillions of gallons of water, recharging our groundwater supplies and storing climate-changing carbon dioxide. According to the report, 3.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions were released into the atmosphere due to plowing of grasslands between 2009 and 2015— the equivalent of 670 million extra cars on the road..." https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/america-s-gGreat-plains-lost-more-habitat-in-2014-than-the-brazilian-amazon-wwf-report
http://earthship.com/ Sustainable Housing. Low energy input. Built in greenhouse.
Great Plains Lost More Habitat In 2014 than Brazil. Excerpt: "...“America’s Great Plains are being plowed under at an alarming rate,” said Martha Kauffman, WWF’s managing director of the Northern Great Plains program. “Centuries old, critical prairie habitat that’s home to amazing wildlife and strong ranching and tribal communities is rapidly being converted to cropland and most people don’t even realize it.”
The staggering rate of conversion also jeopardizes the ecological services the Great Plains provide, like filtering trillions of gallons of water, recharging our groundwater supplies and storing climate-changing carbon dioxide. According to the report, 3.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions were released into the atmosphere due to plowing of grasslands between 2009 and 2015— the equivalent of 670 million extra cars on the road..." https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/america-s-gGreat-plains-lost-more-habitat-in-2014-than-the-brazilian-amazon-wwf-report
