The Grassroots Goods by Erik Hoffner
Good work for people and planet gets done largely thanks to grassroots effort. This blog is a place to get ‘the goods’ on what’s happening at the grassroots level.
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Ah, the sweet smell of composting putrescents
Black (fly) magic 5
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Black soldier fly larvae are all the rage in composting, and the star performer in a new kind of "ultimate vermicomposting" system. Read More -
Octopus(sy) Galore
James Bond calls for more marine protected areas 5
Posted 1 month ago The feds and the fishing industry aren't interested in new marine protected areas, but ocean advocates sure are. They get the message out with a new PSA starring Pierce Brosnan and a few other familiar faces. Read More -
Bioreactor reaction
Gulf dead zone fix falls flat 6
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago It's good to see a big Midwest "land grant" agricultural program that's concerned about the Gulf Dead Zone, and upper Midwest farms' large contribution to it. Read More -
Urban Ag Revolution
Will Allen talks about growing the ‘Good Food’ movement 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago This weekend I caught up with Will Allen who was keynoting the always excellent Northeast Organic Farming Association's Annual Conference in Amherst, MA. He's founder and CEO of Growing Power, and also a MacArthur Genius Award Winner and former pro-basketball player. Read More -
Prison Farms and the Future
Canada set to close important asset: its prison farms 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago In February 2009, Canada's Public Safety Minister and the country's Correctional Service announced a planned closure of all six of the prison rehabiliation farms because "prison farms are training people in skills that are 50 years behind the times." Read More -
Earth and Sky and Shell Oil
A clear voice for science? 2
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago I really like Earth and Sky's podcast, just not the part about it being a mouthpiece for Shell Oil lately. Sad but true. I've been listening to it for half a year on my device, and it seems like nearly once a week, this daily 2 minute podcast interviews a Shell scientist about how global warming is real and action must be taken. -
Canvass(ing) their Ass(es) off
Making change, one door at a time 6
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago It's officially summer, and one thing that brings is an army of thousands of kids with clipboards, out canvassing neighborhoods, street corners, and subway stops for green: green causes and the green of cash. Read More -
burn, baby...burn?
Big biomass, bigger opposition 11
Posted 5 months ago Electric cars powered by the burning of biomass would "average 81% more transportation kilometers and 108% more emissions offsets per unit area cropland than cellulosic ethanol" according to a recent study, but pollution and sustainability concerns could prevent building of bio-electricity plants. Read More -
Go deep, organic!
Coleman’s elegant year-round vegetable production blueprint 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago One of the original American organic farmers lays out his system for producing vegetables year-round, even in northern climes, using super-sustainable "deep organic" methods. Read More -
Not so bright
Why you shouldn’t recycle that bright-orange paper 6
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago One of the thorniest questions I used to get as a recycling educator was why 'astrobright' papers weren't recyclable. You know this stuff: the super-dyed paper used by everyone from bands to Girl Scouts to make posters announcing their bake sales and death-metal guitar battles. Read More
