Many Americans have forgotten what a Homestead is vs. home ownership. A homestead produces for you and a home is something you must provide for. This podcast covers some cool ways to turn convert your home into a producer and provider for your needs.

Dave Duffy is great, cutting right through the confusing crap to "So we're going to get another bozo. Another bozo while we have a recession looming on the horizon." Great Artticle

The E85 scam is about taking money from the people and giving it to a startup industry designed to leech federal subsidies. It's a classic example of the government picking winners and losers with little regard for anything other than political gain

It's lovely," Dr. Sarah Sallon said of the date palm, whose parents may have provided food for the besieged Jews at Masada some 2,000 years ago. The little tree was sprouted in 2005 from a seed recovered from Masada.

The text and photographs of this article are from Organic Gardening and Farming November, 1973. One of the coolest little sustainability projects I have ever seen. Grow fish, grow worms to feed the fish & take up about 4 square feet for the whole thing.

Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity? It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not. Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of the total.

A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy.

s part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds. Instead, forced to buy seeds from US corporations -- which can include seeds the Iraqis developed.