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Positive Child Labor: Learning Business & Life Skills on a Farm (Video)
From demanding an end to child labor in cocoa farming, to iPhone apps that help you spot brands that use abusive child labor practices, we've seen plenty of initiatives that seek to end the exploitative use of
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On Sheep Dogs, Farming, and the Ethics of Eating Meat (Video)
I asked before whether sheep dogs would return for post-peak oil farming, but that question presupposed that they have already gone away. The fact is that while all terrain vehicles, enclosed pens, and other methods
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Should This Ugly Rock-Sucker Be Saved?
Nearly everybody knows about Pacific salmon and the billions of dollars and massive human effort that has gone in to pushing the species back from extinction. But what about the not-too-pretty,
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Portland, Oregon Becomes Latest City to Ban the Plastic Bag
Oregon's largest city has just joined a growing list of municipalities that are fed up with plastic bags -- It has just adopted an ordinance that will ban plastic bags from major grocery stores, as well as some big box
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California Vineyards Face Massive Climate Crunch By 2040 - Up To 50% Loss of Premium Growing Land
Will this get more people to care about climate? Fingers crossed.
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Oregon Legislators Vote To Protect Both Wolves & Livestock
The Oregon legislature has passed a bill that will establish a program under which wolves are protected and livestock owners whose cattle are killed by wolves will be compensated. A deadlock over the law was
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Sweet Skins Organic Apparel on Sale This Month Only
To celebrate summer style Oregon-based organic fashion label Sweet Skins is offering up a deal for sale-hungry shoppers. If you've been eying their Rasberry Scoop Tank Dress or their Slate Blue Spring
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Portland Drains 8 Million Gallon Reservoir After Man Is Caught Peeing In It
The Mt. Tabor Reservoir Number 1 holds 8 million gallons of treated drinking water, which it provides to the residents nearby Portland, Oregon. A human bladder, at its fullest, holds around 16 ounces of urine. So, when a young man was caught on a
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Keen On Home Grown U.S. Footwear Production
Technical footwear manufacturing in the USA? It's hard to think it could fly these days. But Keen, a company with a eye towards reducing the environmental impact of the line of footwear and bags, have done just that. In
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Sea Lions to Be Killed For Eating Endangered Fish
For a group of California sea lions that have found a virtual buffet of endangered salmon at the base of the Bonneville Dam, between Oregon and Washington, the feeding frenzy will soon be coming to an end -- violently. Late last
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Google Invests $100m in What Will be the World's Largest Wind Farm (845 MW)
Photo: Wikipedia, CCSearching for Clean PowerGoogle has been rapidly expanding its clean energy portfolio lately. Just last week we reported the $168m investment in solar thermal, and before that there were multiple investments in wind power,
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Facebook Installs Solar for Oregon Data Center (Well... Sort of)
Facebook is planning a solar array for its new Oregon data center. The problem, though, is that the array is teeeeeeensy, and certainly not enough to get Greenpeace off its back. Data Center Knowledge has details about the array and what (little) it
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Bonneville Power May Shut Down Wind Turbines To Protect Salmon
Just to be clear, this is not about protecting Boeing 'Salmon Thirty Salmons' from turbine blades (but don't let on to Fox News).
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How Much Money Can You Save By Gardening?
Lloyd mentioned gardening among his 11 lifestyle choices to hedge against inflation, and Jeff Nield has noted how one gardener saved $2000 in food costs. For the last few years famed frugality expert and financial guru J.D.Roth of GetRichSlowly.org
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Sharing Gardens Offer Free Food to All Who Need It (Video)
From communities growing free food to Secret Freegan's dumpster diving exploits, the idea of providing free food to those in need is not new to the sustainable food movement. Community gardens are often held up as a great
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Battle Over BPA in Baby Bottles Continues: Oregon May Be Next State to Ban It
As a mom, I know it's not always easy to breastfeed. It's certainly my preference, but sometimes you just need to feed with a bottle. The problem?
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Oregon Cabin Built With Nearly Zero Electricity and 100% Salvaged Materials
Just outside of Portland, Oregon, on a small local certified organic workers´ farm collective (that´s a mouthful), a small cabin is being built. Measuring just 16´x 20´ (small is the new big), it will house farmers
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Are Solar-Powered Bee Hives a Good Idea?
With Colony Collapse Disorder continuing to wreak havoc on bee colonies, some beekeepers have been looking to hardier, less domesticated bees to build up a stronger gene pool. From the
