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Bullitt Foundation opens new building in Seattle that redefines environmentally-friendly

Environment

The Bullitt Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit focused on improving the environment in the Pacific Northwest, has taken on a new endeavor. It’s opened a building for its headquarters, and house other companies, that will be a demonstrator of sustainable technologies.

Monarch butterflies threatened by loss of habitat

Environment

Jobs scarce, more Italians volunteering on organic farms

Business, Economics and Jobs

Boston man launches urban composting program

Environment

Unemployed Italians Try Organic Farming

Environment
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The Importance of Phosphorus in the Global Food Supply

Global Politics

Phosphorus is a vital element for producing food and now its price is rising causing concern about both supply and pollution.

The World

Organic Farming in China

Global Politics

China may not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking about places that American organic farmers could learn from. American advocates of a safe and sustainable food chain learned a few things on their recent trip to organic farms near Beijing.

Waste Not-Composting Toilets in Haiti

Environment

The World’s Amy Bracken reports from Haiti on efforts to use composting toilets to address a host of public health and environmental problems. The story is the third part of this week’s Toilet Tales series.

The World

Garden Girl in the City

It’s gardening season again but for urbanites that doesn’t have to mean just pansies on the porch. “Garden Girl” Patti Moreno tells LOE why she digs city gardening and how she grows so much food in so little space.

Turning Waste to Fertilizer — Humanure

Following last year’s earthquake in Haiti more than a million people were left homeless without access to proper sewage facilities. Alisa Keesey is a program director at Give Love in Haiti. She tells host Bruce Gellerman about their project to bring composting toilets to the island, turning feces into fertilizer.

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