Jeremy's Corner

Special report by Juliette Jowit
The Observer, Sunday November 2 2008

Wadi Faynan, Jordan: This Palestinian Beduin Family of 11 live in the desert. They collect their water from the waterpipes and manage to get 15 litres of water each per day.

It's hard to imagine why humans would have chosen the achingly arid stone desert of Wadi Faynan for their first settlement.… Continue

by Daniel Fireside

An agenda that puts people first: Housing

New homeowners at a land trust development in the Old North End neighborhood of Burlington, Vermont. In the early 1980s, soaring housing costs were pricing longtime residents out of their own neighborhoods, and so the nation’s first municipally funded community land trust was born. Today it’s the nation’s largest, and this year it’s being honored with a prestigious U.N. World Habitat Award.
Photo by Craig Line for Champlain Housing T… Continue

By Elaine Shannon, AlterNet
Posted on September 15, 2008, Printed on September 15, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/98809/

It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry.

Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than a decade, since their experiments turned up the first hard evidence that miniscule amounts… Continue

Some type 3 plastics may leach bisphenol A

Some type 7 plastics may leach bisphenol A.

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Easy Backyard Chicken Coops
Troy Griepentrog

There are dozens of reasons to keep a few hens in your back yard, including pest control and sheer entertainment. Fresh eggs may be the most popular reason, and eggs from hens allowed to do what comes naturally — roam and peck at grasses, weed seeds and bugs — not only taste better, they're better for you than eggs from cage-raised hens. Free-range eggs are higher in vitamin E and beta carotene, and lower in cholesterol. (Look for the exciting result… Continue