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Monsanto Invents the Pig » Celsias
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If you haven’t already started a tool pool in your neighborhood, there are some online sites to help you rent and share your stuff (think freecycling, but you get your stuff back ). I’m definitely putting a few things up on the loanables.com site, which has a good number of members in Austin. [...]

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May2408bug 004.jpg, originally uploaded by TheHerbGirl.
in my front yard this AM.
This guy was 3 inches, at least. No lie.
I have a horror of huge bugs– so much so [...]

Everything looks better when your head’s in the sand: The USDA stops tracking pesticide use
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They are moving the house next door away right now & Shan talked to the movers.
Dessau didn’t (as I suspected) buy the house– too beat up to rent.
The real scoop tho is that there’s 4 bank repos of houses in this park alone today & tons more all around this area since Dell [...]

Envirovore: Eat Your Greens! – Biotech Giants Put Climate Change on Agenda
Industry leaders in agricultural biotechnology are seeking hundreds of patents on crops designed to cope with hot and cold weather in the face of global warming, according to a new report by the ETC Group
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US wastes “27% of food available for consumption” – Boing Boing
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YouTube – WSJ clip: suburban farming, an idea whose time has come
a brief & smile worthy clip from the Wall Street Journal
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Carectomy.com: Removing Cars from People – Uses for the SUV You Can’t Afford
Makes a great planter!
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