Companion Plants that Benefit You and Each Other

With a little bit of planning you can jazz up your yard with some great herbs and plants that will add variety to your life, or better nourish the ones you’ve already got by providing companions. The following plants are beneficial to the environment and us because they either repel harmful insects, attract beneficial insects, nourish surrounding vegetation, or …

Your Environmental Paw Print

When it comes to your environmental footprint, have you considered how your pets affect your family’s impact on the environment? What about how greening up your pet’s environment can not only green up your act, but improve your pet’s quality of life? The following are some considerations to improve everyone’s environment and your pet’s quality of life.
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Improving the Status of Women a Key to Global Sustainability

PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 20, 2009 – Around the world, as many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in some other way – most often by someone she knows, including her husband or another male family member; one woman in four has been abused during pregnancy. …

Harvesting Rainwater

It doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to collect and store the rain water that falls onto your house. If you’ve already got the rain gutters and downspout in place, you’re off to a great start.

For simple rainwater harvesting systems, you can install and connect everything in a couple of hours. In fact, it’s easy to start …

Oregon Hemp Farming Bill Becomes Law

Vote Hemp, the leading grassroots advocacy organization working to give back farmers the right to grow industrial hemp (the oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis), enthusiastically supports the decision of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski to sign SB 676 into law today. The bill, which passed the House by a vote of 46 to 11 and the Senate by a …