environmental sustainability
The Necessary Revolution: Creating a Sustainable Future
Peter Senge and Bryan Smith - "The Industrial Era is ending. Its extraordinary successes—advances in literacy, life expectancy, human rights, and technology—have propelled us headlong into a myriad of side effects: food and water shortages, cyclonic destruction, prolonged drought and rising sea levels. To delay acknowledging the need for lifestyle and business changes—'The Necessary Revolution'—risks our very survival.
Change Agent: You
Wed, 10/29/2008 - 13:16 — ArdenTom Szaky, cofounder of eco-friendly fertilizer company Terracycle, on the most powerful thing you can do to persuade big businesses to give you more green and responsible product choices.
Why Organics Are Better For Your Health
Thu, 10/16/2008 - 04:55 — ArdenChemicals, hormones and pesticides. Sound yummy? These are all things that can be found in regular food. Michel Nischan breaks down the principles of organically grown food and why it's better for your health.
Organic Gardening, Self Reliance is Patriotic
Fri, 08/01/2008 - 18:07 — gardenspotAugust 1, 2008 - Going organic: Movement taking root as prices, awareness rise
LaReeca Rucker
lrucker@jackson.gannett.com
He draws a picture of a bicycle and writes the words "Self-reliance is patriotic" every weekend on a large door at the Starkville Community Market where produce and fruit is sold.
Owners of the Lafayette Street business allow the public to paint messages on the door, and Mississippi State University student Ryan Storment, 23, is eager to share his ideas about environmental sustainability.
Storment has given up driving and now bikes everywhere he goes. He's also gone organic.
According to the Organic Trade Association, U.S. sales of organic foods and beverages grew from $1 billion in 1990 to an estimated $20 billion in 2007, and are projected to reach nearly $23 billion in 2008. Organic food sales are expected to increase an average of 18 percent each year from 2007 to 2010.
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