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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
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Department: frontlines

It's Just Your Trash Talkin'
By Jocelyn C. Zuckerman | From the Mag
December 7, 2011: What if our garbage system were smart enough to inform waste collectors, recyclers, and resellers what we've just tossed into it? We may be closer than you think. (0) Comments
Will Work for Chew Toys
By Anne Casselman | From the Mag
November 29, 2011: With their super-evolved sense of smell, canines make ideal employees for conservation programs aimed at tracking and detecting endangered wildlife. And they never whine for a raise. (2) Comments
Frontlines Winter 2011
By The Editors | From the Mag
November 23, 2011: The importance of amphibians, rockers for refuse, Mario Batali on organic food, and other short takes from our Winter 2012 issue. (0) Comments
Living With Aliens
By Sharon Levy | From the Mag
September 6, 2011: Fast-evolving soapberry bugs offer hope in the battle against invasive species. (0) Comments
Let Your Algae Bloom
By Sabrina Richards | From the Mag
August 24, 2011: A scientist at the Smithsonian Institution has discovered a way to take advantage of algae's affinity for tainted water to use the plant as a natural cleanser. (0) Comments
The Enchanted Forest
By Benjamin Preston | From the Mag
August 24, 2011: "This is an ecosystem in process. You are an ecosystem in process. We think you should meet." (0) Comments
Chillin' Out West
By Benjamin Preston | From the Mag
August 24, 2011: The American West gets hot. Insanely hot. The Western Cooling Challenge is trying to make cooling it all more cost efficient. (0) Comments
Feathers for Fuel
By Mara Grunbaum | From the Mag
August 24, 2011: Every year the U.S. poultry industry sheds up to 4.5 billion pounds of feathers, most of which head to landfills or are cooked down into feed for other animals. Why not turn the fluffy castoffs into environmentally friendlier plastics? (0) Comments
Virginia on Their Minds
By Jocelyn C. Zuckerman | From the Mag
August 24, 2011: On the debut CD from Driftwood Fire, a duo with day jobs in the environmental field, musings about relationships intermingle with meditations on coal mines. (0) Comments
Young and Soiled
By Sabrina Richards | From the Mag
August 24, 2011: Too many kids think potatoes come out of a bag. A new public-service initiative called FoodCorps aims to change that. (0) Comments