News from Mother: Celebrating Earth Day 2009
These are interesting times we’re living in, with the convergence of monumental challenges and awesome opportunities.
April/May 2009
By the Mother Earth News editors
To mark Earth Day 2009, we've put together special coverage of five different topics that provide unique solutions and innovative ideas to help us live wisely and address the challenges ahead.
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First, The Best Crops for Your Garden presents the results of our groundbreaking national survey and provides lists of the top crops for each region of the country, as rated by hundreds of gardeners as easiest to grow, cook with and preserve. To our knowledge, no one has ever collected this kind of region-specific information from such a large group of gardeners. We hope the data will help you grow your best garden ever and become less dependent on the unsustainable and sometimes risky industrial food system.
Turning from fresh, homegrown veggies to meat and dairy, The Amazing Benefits of Grass-fed Meat outlines why raising animals on intensively managed pastures is so much better in so many ways than the industrial, grain-based system. Two under-recognized benefits include increasing soil fertility and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Managed intensive grazing can be practiced on any scale, and in most regions it only takes a few acres to support a cow or a couple of pigs. This means that anyone who has a small acreage could use intensive grazing to produce grass-fed meat (we’ll tell you how to do this in a future issue).
To cover the looming issue of global warming, we have 5 Plans for Action on Climate Change and Renewable Energy and an expert viewpoint on the ambitious steps necessary to build a brighter future, A Plan for the Solar Revolution.
