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a new initiative to reduce waste at the music and environmental festival
- Added: May 07, 2009
- Length: 01:46
For thousands of years, people have celebrated successful harvests. And today, many celebrations are held on or near the Harvest Moon, which occur...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
There was a time when a compost heap was far from mainstream. I mean, growing your food in decomposing garbage? No way!
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 20, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Forget that noisy action-adventure flick. I go to movies for the popcorn. Drenched in butter. Now, obviously all that butter-drenched popcorn requ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 20, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What do you envision when you think of an organic dairy farm? Cows out grazing in a pasture? Or standing on the concrete floor of a feedlot?
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
You probably won't find Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Italian frying peppers or Amish Deer Tongue lettuce at your local supermarket. But, a growing commun...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Did you know rice doesn't need to grow in water?
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Americans love potatoes. Fried, baked, steamed, boiled, and broiled. On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a y...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Well, it's back to the future again. Farmers are turning to "companion planting," an agricultural trick that Native Americans came up with centurie...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Organic food is becoming trendy, and you'll be seeing more of it at your supermarket; it'll probably be cheaper too.
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
For thousands of years, people have celebrated successful harvests. And today, many celebrations are held on or near the Harvest Moon...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
You probably won't find Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Italian frying peppers or Amish Deer Tongue lettuce at your local supermarket. But, a growing commun...
- Added: May 24, 2007
- Length: 01:32
What do you envision when you think of an organic dairy farm? Cows out grazing in a pasture? Or standing on the concrete floor of a feedlot?
- Added: May 24, 2007
- Length: 01:30
On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a year. It's a $2 billion industry, but just a fraction of the potatoes ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Organic food is becoming trendy, and you?ll be seeing more of it at your supermarket, it?ll probably be cheaper to.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The Ashtabula River in Ohio flows into Lake Erie, one of the four Great Lakes.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
A study in the journal Nature found that up to 90 percent of the larger specimens of these species have disappeared from the world's oceans.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Fish farming - also known as aquaculture - helps to keep fish stocks up and prevent over-fishing. But fish farms are usually located in shallow wat...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Many of the world's fisheries and marine ecosystems are in trouble from overfishing and high "bycatch" - the accidental killing of millions of mari...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Open-field coffee cultivation emerged some 30 years ago. While the method may be productive in the short run, it often degrades the environment, an...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Aquaculture is becoming big business in a hungry world. The challenge is to develop methods and technologies that produce sustainable yields while ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
A writer ponders the intersection of food and the environment.
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 11, 2004
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 3
