Back(yard) to the land Family grows its meals on tiny urban lot

For most people, eating organic means a trip to the local whole-foods store and, often, a hit to their wallets. For the Dervaes family, eating organic requires only a trip to the garden. The family of four raises 3 tons of food each year — enough to supply three-quarters of their diet and maintain a thriving organic produce business to boot.

Climate policy – July 28

“Vampire memo” reveals coal industry plan for massive propaganda blitz /
Power group promoting global warming skeptic / Hey NASA, what about us? / Interview with Revkin of NY TImes / Carbon credits for the Joneses: UK politician advocates domestic emissions allowance.

Oil Sands: Burning Energy to Produce It

Everything about the Alberta oil sands development is impossibly big. Monster-sized trucks and giant excavators are carving up hundreds of square kilometres of land, thousands of kilometres of pipelines and roads have been laid, and millions of litres of water are being super-heated to process millions of tonnes of rock and sand.