Business Opportunity: Demand for Purple Corn May Soon Explode

Purple corn is being classified as a functional food. It is loaded with phenolics and anthocyanin, and has just about the highest antioxidant rating of any food including blueberries. The health benefits of purple corn are pervasive, and it has a normalizing effect on many systems of the body. Purple corn has even been shown able to shrink cancerous tumors. As the healing value of purple corn becomes apparent, researchers have jumped in to document its many benefits, and supplement companies have rolled out purple corn extracts. The only thing missing from all this is someone to put purple corn in the produce sections of the local grocery stores. Read more

Eat Sustainably on a Food Stamp Budget

Recently, TIME magazine put together a cover story on how the economic crisis is affecting the average American, profiling a number of people ranging from a sports CEO to a laid-off GM employee. Reading through the stories, I saw an odd trend – people are cutting back and spending a lot less – yet organic foods are flying off the shelves – with an organic farmer saying his sales are up 500%! Read more

How to Green Your Home and Cash in on Stimulus Money

 

Energy-saving systems for the attic, basement, and in between have effectively gone on sale, courtesy of the United States Congress. But whether shoppers will take advantage — or even notice available discounts — remains an open question.

Tax incentives to encourage investments in energy efficiency took effect last week when President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. That means homeowners with drafty windows, old heating systems, or other root causes of high energy bills can be rewarded in tax season if they make improvements in 2009 or 2010. Read more

Barter is New Medium of Exchange as Credit/Payment Systems Collapse

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Movement Aims to Give Nature Legal Standing

A growing number of environmentalists and legal scholars are arguing that non-humans such as trees, rivers and animals should have legal standing to defend their rights in court, and that humans should be able to bring lawsuits on their behalf. Read more

How to Live Below Your Means

The blog Marc and Angel Hack Life has scoured the web to bring you eighteen ways to manage your money wisely, so that your money does not manage you. Read more

Ancient Seeds: The Key to Feeding the World

All over the world, crops are failing because they are unable to cope with more frequent extreme weather changes. One day there could be a snap frost, while another day, it could be extremely hot. In these conditions, our modern day seeds are not able to produce the crops we need. Read more

World’s Soils in Sharp Decline; Global Food Shortage to Follow

The world’s soils continue to be degraded at an unprecedented rate that will only exacerbate the current food crisis, scientists are warning.

 

The current surge in food prices has been blamed on factors such as the diversion of food crops into biofuels production, coupled with poor harvests caused by droughts, floods and pests. But the situation was a long time in coming, experts say, with unexpectedly poor harvests stressing an already weakened food production system. Read more

The Most Important Video You’ll Ever See

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett’s eight-part presentation on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy" may be the most important video you’ll ever see. Few people understand the full implications of innocuous-sounding growth and consumption numbers. But those numbers, when examined, tell a disturbing tale.

 

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US Role in Georgia Crisis

The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia – and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories – is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis.

 

It has been nearly impossible to even broach this subject of the U.S. role. Much of the mainstream media coverage and statements by American political leaders of both major parties has in many respects resembled the anti-Russian hysterics of the Cold War. Read more

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