The End of Mowing Your Lawn? / Planting Seeds for Change
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By JULIE YOUNG  Antonia FD Vassar munched on a crisp sugar-snap pea and surveyed her ripening front yard.  Little stone walkways wind around garden beds of varying shapes and sizes. An early morning sun drenches lettuces, peas, kale, strawberries, carrots and beets.
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By Jennifer Chamberlain, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 23--This summer's drought may have planted the seeds for a coming landscaping boom as homeowners look to revive wilted lawns and forlorn flowerbeds.
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Life & style: He gave up rock'n'roll to become an eco-friendly farmer - so how green is Alex James' home?
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Life & style: We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant trees in Africa. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it? Mark Honigsbaum reports.
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This is the question posed by Will Hurley of BMC.  After chatting with him today about life, the upcoming elections, and the open source community in general, I decided that I am pretty curious about how to answer that question myself. read more
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Getting to the Kent countryside from London is about contrast. You arrive to all the things you'd expect, such as quiet, big skies, stars that are visible at night, snowdrops in bloom and peace. However, not all is calm in my little country corner. This weekend I arrive to find that a neighbouring farmer has, without permission, placed about 500 sheep in my field to graze. The field was being left empty for Farmer B, and Farmer A, with the ruthlessness you'd more likely expect in a FTSE 100 boardroom, let his sheep into my field to feed on the lush green turf that has been accumulating.
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No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used. The open-source software world understands this to its benefit.
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The road to energy independence starts in a cornfield in Nebraska. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla explains why he believes in biofuels. From Wired magazine.
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There is a dissonance between two camps of modern liberal ideology, both of which have had a deep influence on my thinking. On the one hand there is the green ideology that advocates buying locally produced products or growing your own and the general  reduction of energy usage. On the other there is the drop the debt coalition that is attempting to help the developing world drag itself up and become a richer place.   This article is my attempt to resolve their influence on my own beliefs, with regards to philanthropy.
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Take your pick: The widening adoption of genetically engineered crops by farmers around the world is reducing global pesticide use, increasing agricultural yields and bringing unprecedented prosperity and food security to millions of the world's poorest citizens. Or, it is fueling greater use of ...
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The winds of change are upon us.
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Grass Smells Sweeter When Cut With an Al Gore-Friendly Lawn Mower
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By Staff Reports  The OSU County Extension Office offers the following tips for established Bermuda grass lawns.   Fertilization: Last nitrogen fertilizer should be added no later than Sept. 15. The application should not contain more than 28 percent of actual nitrogen.
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By Kelly Heidbreder, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Sep. 13--The mercury is dropping during the day. That means it is time to toss some grass seed on those bare spots in the lawn. Experts say mid-August through September is the best time to grow grass.
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By Madeley, John  The chemical companies tell us that organic agriculture cannot feed the world. They are wrong. In the mid1960s a young British national called Alan Chadwick, demonstrated on a scrub-covered hillside in California that organic methods could increase productivity fivefold.
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Saving planet more complex than planting a tree Bad news for buyers of ecological Christmas presents and seekers of environmental quick fixes: offsetting carbon emissions by planting extra trees might not work as well as we had all hoped. It always seemed too easy, didn't it?â¦
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Science & environment: . 'Ignorance, need and greed' depleting soil . Experts warn competition will lead to conflict.