Sentences with phrase «grown food for»

Ask your city to support these efforts and to purchase locally grown food for schools and other city services.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems, with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the building through underground ducts; vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.

Researchers found that out when they had 23 kids swap their conventionally grown food for organic versions for five days.

As land once used for subsistence farming is transferred to plantations growing food for export, the GNP is likely to rise, but the ability of ordinary people to feed themselves declines.

«If we grow regeneratively, using hemp as part of the rotations and other crops in that rotation, we are able not only to reduce and potentially mitigate climate change, we are able to boost soil health, boost the nutrients within our food, and to help really sustain our fields so that we can be growing food for a very long time for our people,» said Elizabeth Kucinich, Hemp History Week endorser and Rodale Institute board member.

And growing food for people for a living — that's one of the hardest jobs of all time!

Pose the same question to Lois Ellen Frank and she'll cite a different canon: quail, blue corn, wild rice, chipotle peppers — ideally purchased from the people who have been raising and growing these foods for centuries.

I am a better, more patient person because of all of the time and energy that I have poured into our land and growing food for my family and friends.

Finding joy in growing food for our families, and learning patience and mindfulness from the act of doing so - these things we all share in common.

No chemical / fossil fuel inputs to grow the food for soy or feed the cows for dairy, no packaging, no transport to / from the store, no bottles to manufacture or wash (when not pumping), really no waste at all!

The gained knowledge could be used to start growing food for our growing population in areas on Earth which currently are not suitable for food production.

Such an attitude derives from an inelasticity of mind which takes for its criterion a home - loving population living on highly durable soils and growing food for both subsistence and export.

But you have to have it to grow food for 7 billion people,» Davidson said.

Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in a deep - space habitat, tending gardens and growing food for astronaut explorers.

If the land devoted to growing food for cattle in the United States were used to grow peas, barley, and other crops for people instead, beef production would drop by 55 %, from 31 million to 14 million beef cattle, the team reports today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Such processes could encourage development of a domestic natural food coloring industry, with agriculture spreads devoted specifically to growing foods for use in making food and beverage coloring.

If done on a large scale, the process would reduce the demand for land to grow food for livestock, as well as the demand for wild fish to feed to farmed fish.

Meat was the ingredient with the biggest impact, because of the methane from cattle and the need to grow food for livestock.

The idea of growing food for human colonies in space could be a reality very soon.»

Over on the roof of the Metro Baptist Church in Hells Kitchen, they're using the plastic playlands to grow food for those in need.

Sixty percent of the world's population will likely live in cities by the year 2030, so models like Aerofarms that grow food for urbanites using less land and less transportation are only going to become more important.

I didn't realize how profitable a small backyard could be until my friend Daniel recommended the book The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit.

Add to this the fact that crops like corn, alfalfa, wheat and soy are now being used as animal feed so much of the land is being used to grow food for animals.

Could we use some of resources used for raising meat and instead grow food for them?

I am a food blogger (http://www.foodtasticmom.com), and need others to grow my food for me I tend to have a brown thumb.

A school has won a # 750 prize to build a garden worthy of growing food for the healthiest packed lunch in Essex.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

Accessible only by boat, Playa Cativo is a true escape from the rest of the world, producing hydro - powered electricity and growing food for its El Gavilán Restaurant in its own organic garden.

Learn how we grow food for our restaurant using «Regenerative Agriculture,» the «beyond organic» revolution that feeds us while healing the planet.

Accessible only by boat, Playa Cativo is a true escape from the rest of the world, and a model of sustainability, producing hydro - powered electricity and growing food for its El Gavilán Restaurant in its own organic garden.

Growing food for fuel, however, is irresponsible and a slap in the face to those who would much rather have corn to eat than corn to burn in vehicles they don't even have.

Find out how you can safely grow food for yourself and your family in your own back yard.»

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so... It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde.»

Having said all that, there is something of a revival of farming — not mega midwestern agriculture, but small farms, many of them organic, growing food for local sale to restaurants, farmers» markets, CSAs and some grocery stores.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far - flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.

By transferring the land to the exclusive propagation of oil palm, areas are losing the ability to grow food for themselves.»

This is due to the exorbitant amount of water used to grow the food for the livestock, the water they drink and are bathed in and then the water used to try to wash the blood, urine and feces out of the flesh to be sold in grocery stores.

Trend Number Three: Demonetization Edahiro has recognized a shift from full - time work (that sounds similar to the over-worked, over-stressed 9 - 7 jobs here in the states) to part - time lifestyles that allow time for growing food for the family.

In response, the more affluent ones such as Saudi Arabia, China, and South Korea are leasing and buying large tracts of land in developing countries on which to grow food for themselves.»

Only by growing some food for yourself can you become acquainted with the beautiful energy cycle that revolves from soil to seed to flower to fruit to food to offal to decay, and around again.

Will these entities even give up a quarter of a million for agricultural adaptation in developing countries where small scale farmers are growing food for them and for all of us?

As I am sure you know, developed countries are blaming developing countries for the 30 % global emissions from agriculture although it is these developing countries that are growing the food for them and for all of us.

Not exact matches

Local sourcing has been a trend for the last few years, but using foods grown in walking distance of the dinner table is an increasingly popular goal, according to the BBC.

No - frills air travel has grown worldwide, as passengers seek out the lowest fare in exchange for perks like food, free checked baggage and seat assignments, which used to all come with the cost of a ticket.

The CFA wants consumers to know the product was grown in Canada, our farmers follow high standards for food safety, and their practices are environmentally friendly.

Total sales for fast - casual restaurants grew by 10.5 % last year in the United States, compared with 6.1 % for traditional fast food, according to Mintel, a market research firm.

The Specialty Food Association offers a «membership candidate» category for a $ 100 application fee intended to «help new manufacturers gain the knowledge and experience they need to grow in the marketplace, and transition to full membership.»

The Challenge: Howard's is a small Kansas City grocery store, with a twist: The store, which opened in 2012, sells memberships for $ 60 per year; members get a door code allowing them to access the store 24/7 and pick from the locally grown produce and organic foods in stock.