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Bio-Town // Comment Picked for TV
Thanks to ChardaeD from Northwestern University for uploading her thoughts after watching the pod, "Bio-Town."
After listening to ChardaeD, take a look at the original pod by clicking the link below:
http://current.com/items/76365962_bio_town
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The Billion Dollar Dropout by Dr. Don Hutson
Dr. Don Hutson is a lifelong educatior and business leader. I think he has some very interesting thoughts and proposals for the future of education...well worth the read. Enjoy.
Dr. Don Hutson is a lifelong educatior and business leader. I think he has some very interesting thoughts and proposals for the future... more -
New green technology controls fire ants without harmful chemicals or poisons.
What started out as a heat lamp, a waffle iron, a timer, and one retired Texas rancher, has evolved into a non-toxic fire ant control system with two U.S. Patents to its credit. This is a “green”, long-term solution to the fire ant nightmare and it is perfectly named, The AntAgonizer.
The guiding principles of the invention were discovered by long time Mills County Rancher Sid Brooks. Sid became fascinated by fire ants and their behavior around food and electricity. After some ideas and experimentation, Sid came up with a rudimentary contraption that was both killing and driving away fire ant colonies. Some ants would die on the spot. Others would wander around in circles a bit. According to Sid, “They were dead, they just hadn’t been notified yet.” Without these foragers, food was not getting to the queen and her eggs. Colonies were abandoned.
The AntAgonizer is now top tier technology. Development and design is by Alan Abele, a brilliant engineer with eight U.S. Patents to his credit, several of those in the aerospace industry. Two are for The Antagonizer, one for the innovative timer that controls pulses of infrared energy. The second is for the methodology of the unit, in other words how it kills and controls fire ants. Abele stated, “This product represents the fusion of the biological and engineering sciences and it works.”
The AntAgonizer uses small pulses of infrared energy to disrupt and ultimately destroy fire ant colonies. The system controls fire ants without using toxic chemicals that can poison property, contaminate water resources and endanger children, pets, livestock, fish, waterfowl, and beneficial insects.
The Antagonizer has been in development for almost seven years, says Ginger Spies, AntAgonizer principle. “During that time we have learned a lot about the behavior of fire ants and we have heard stories that are just amazing. We know of a fire ant attack that ended a funeral service and sent people running for their cars; of golfers who couldn’t putt out because of infested greens; of football players who were taken to the hospital during a game because the field had been treated with pesticides earlier that day; and numerous attacks on small children and the elderly. Fire ants are truly capable of spectacular injury and damage.
Sid Brooks, retired rancher, has started a movement and it’s one he hopes will contribute to a major paradigm shift for the way we treat the Earth and ourselves.
What started out as a heat lamp, a waffle iron, a timer, and one retired Texas rancher, has evolved into a non-toxic fire ant control ... more -
Dairy farm tour reveals pampered cows
Pampered moocows at Teabow Farms. You nust be nice to your moocows. An excerpt:
Herdsman Larry Jarvis loves the cows he tends to — and it shows.
Jarvis calls Teabow Farms' 1,000 cows "sweeties." He gives them the best treatment a cow could possibly get. They are treated with tender loving care, Jarvis said.
"We don't yell at them, we don't beat them or smack them," Jarvis said. Pampered moocows at Teabow Farms. You nust be nice to your moocows. An excerpt: ... more -
Fair for farmers to cash in on water?
Ray Colbert wanted out after five decades of growing apples, but his son didn't want the farm in northern Washington. No one else did either.
So, Colbert sold the last big piece of his operation, an 80-acre parcel, to a buyer far downstate who wanted what came with the land: water from the Okanogan River.
State regulators signed off on the buyer's request to transfer the rights to the water and let it flow hundreds of miles down river, figuring the deal was good for fish and wouldn't hurt anyone else's water supply.
Local officials, however, fear such deals will dry out their rural farming community.
"If this were to snowball and keep up, Okanogan County would literally dry up. It would dry up its economy, its agricultural production and everything else," said state Sen. Bob Morton, a Republican whose rural district sprawls across remote northern Washington.
Moving water around the West is nothing new — it's what enabled apples to sprout in this area in the first place. In Northern California, river water is diverted south to irrigate most of the country's winter vegetables and keep faucets flowing in the Los Angeles area.
Officials in northwest Montana are negotiating a water compact with the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that would allow the tribe to sell water from the headwaters of the Missouri River to any place in the vast swath of the state that lies in the river's basin.
"There's no constraint where they can market that water to — hundreds and hundreds of miles," said John Tubbs, administrator of the Montana Department of Natural Resources water resources division.
Such moves don't come without dispute. Ranchers and conservationists are fighting a plan to pump billions of gallons of water from rural Nevada and send it to Las Vegas.
More fights are likely as farmers find they get a bigger payoff from selling their water than by growing crops, since Western water law allows water rights to be separated from land.
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Does this law need to be repealed in the face of drought in this region? Do farmers have a legal right to own the water in the first place and make a profit from a resource that should be there for the common use of all? Ray Colbert wanted out after five decades of growing apples, but his son didn't want the farm in northern Washington. No one else did ... more -
Pig is afraid of mud, wears toy wellies to beat phobia
When pig farmers Debbie and Andrew Keeble discovered a newborn member of their herd was afraid of mud, they were left scratching their heads over what to do. But, after thinking on the hoof, they soon realised a pair of wellies worn by a Paddington Bear toy fitted the young porker's tiny trotters like a glove.
Well, that must be the end of news as we know it. Nothing can top this.
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Mud phobia pig gets its own boots
Awww. A pig that's scared of mud. And got its own boots. And has been saved from becoming sausage meat as a result. That's evolution... Awww. A pig that's scared of mud. And got its own boots. And has been saved from becoming sausage meat as a result. That's evolution..... more
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The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside
The fight between large-scale corporations including Monsanto and Smithfield, and the Polish family farmers continues. This is a very interesting an informative article. Well worth the 3 minutes it takes to read it. The fight between large-scale corporations including Monsanto and Smithfield, and the Polish family farmers continues. This is a very... more
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Leaving behind the trucker hat
Young people are becoming farmers?
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Organic Rap
TV show host meets organic rapper at a sustainability festival. Only to the surprise of all the host is quite talented himself, being a human beat box cranking out the beat. Organic Rap is a song so organic there is no background music, and is in the spirit of community brotherhood as these two people met for the first time one sunny day in Scottsdale Arizona while shooting a pilot for a TV show about sustainability, eco-design, permaculture and changes around the planet which are quickly heading our way.Brought to you by Dharma Dog Pictures - serving the visual dharma. More to come.......uniting technologies of Internet, TV, gaming and cinema. TV show host meets organic rapper at a sustainability festival. Only to the surprise of all the host is quite talented himself, being ... more
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Pig Spleen Forecasts Weather
A farmer in North Dakota is using a peculiar folk method to predict the weather. He is looking at the spleens of slaughtered pigs.
A narrow-to-wide spleen means a harsh winter.
He's found that the spleens have a uniform thickness, which means no drastic changes.
The farmer claims to be 85% accurate, which rivals even the best Doppler Radar. A farmer in North Dakota is using a peculiar folk method to predict the weather. He is looking at the spleens of slaughtered pigs. ... more -
If People Can't Have Sex In Public, Neither Can Their Goats
A woman was issued two tickets for her goats' public bad behaviour in the small town of Dibble, Oklahoma: her goats were caught mating and relieving themselves on her own yard. Baaaaad goats. A woman was issued two tickets for her goats' public bad behaviour in the small town of Dibble, Oklahoma: her goats were caught mating... more
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Farm Life in Nebraska
A short video documentry of the life cycle of a wheat crop grown in central Nebraska in the early 90s.
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Childhood Bracelet Found in Chicken
Aaron Giles lost a bracelet at the age of four. Now, over twenty five years later he has rediscovered it in the most unlikely of places. Aaron Giles lost a bracelet at the age of four. Now, over twenty five years later he has rediscovered it in the most unlikely of plac... more
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Mini Pigs Prove Big Hit
I always wondered where cocktail sausages come from...
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Bio-Town
Reynolds, Indiana is a typical midwestern small town...except for the fact that they're on their way to completely abandoning traditional fuel sources and they've already tacked on a new name to the town sign---"Bio Town." Reynolds, Indiana is a typical midwestern small town...except for the fact that they're on their way to completely abandoning traditio... more
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A Dying Breed
Ever wonder what it might be like to be a farmer? 18-year-old Evan Shifflet shows us a typical day on the family farm.
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Save The Farm
A behind the scenes look at the last few weeks at the South Central Farm and a startling account of the day of the raid and subsequent arrests. A behind the scenes look at the last few weeks at the South Central Farm and a startling account of the day of the raid and subsequent... more
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Urban Farmers Evicted
VC2 producer Sebastian Hernandez is on the scene as the 14 acre farm in South Central LA featured in his pod "A Little Piece of Land" is bulldozed. VC2 producer Sebastian Hernandez is on the scene as the 14 acre farm in South Central LA featured in his pod "A Little Piece of Land"... more
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Pimp My Rice Paddy
The residents of Inakadate, Japan have been drawing pictures with rice since 1993.
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