Sentences with phrase «how modern agriculture»
Linus Blomqvist, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, «How Modern Agriculture Can Save the Gorillas of Virunga,» September 15, 2015 Justin Fox, «We Might Be Near Peak Environmental Impact,» September 11, 2015 Eduardo Porter, «A Call to Look Past Sustainable Development,» April 14, 2015
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Linus Blomqvist, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, «How Modern Agriculture Can Save the Gorillas of Virunga,» September 15, 2015 Justin Fox, «We Might Be Near Peak Environmental Impact,» September 11, 2015
The reports on herbicide resistance and its challenges, and how modern agriculture is coping, were part of a symposium on the topic at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.
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How we came to do this is a twisting tale that science writer Maryn McKenna elegantly unspools in her extraordinary new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, which was published in September.
Maybe God can feed and clothe us, but look how much better modern agriculture and industry do the job.
Fruits of Exploited Labor In his book, «Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit,» Barry Estabrook offers a poignant exposé of the tomato industry, tracing the fruit's voyage through a mass production process that incorporates a medley of pesticides and herbicides to combat Florida's difficult growing conditions.
Award - winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats.
If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.
On this panel, we consider how global agriculture will need to evolve in order to provide modern diets for everyone without converting what remains of the planets undeveloped areas into farms.
«You couldn't really do agriculture in Ancient Greece,» according to journalist and author Will Storr, whose book «Selfie: How We Became So Self - Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us,» says the roots of the modern world's striving, vain culture can be found in the lands around Olympus.