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Food and Garden
Growing your own food is an easy and fun way to live a more green existence. Vegetable gardening allows you to forgo chemicals and use time-proven methods for producing the most organic food possible. Through 
It’s harvest season. Time to stock up at the farmers’ market or home garden, then can some fall produce for the long, cold winter. Without canning or freezing, in most climates you’ll find it nearly impossible to keep your carbon footprint low by eating locally throughout the year. Even if it weren’t environmentally important, canned tomatoes and vegetables are a wonderful taste treat—and reminder of summer—all year round. 
For your garden, playground or path, you may be considering rubber mulching, made from recycled tires rather than felled trees. It has several advantages beyond saving trees (a great thing), but also some serious negatives—initial cost, chemical leaching, off-gassing, risk of injury and the potential for vandalism among them. Here’s what you need to know to make an informed decision. 
Traffic, smog, pollution, haze... whatever the cause, the effect is lower air quality in cities across the world. While there are different ways to tackle this problem, researcher Kamal Meattle has come up with a novel solution–to grow your own fresh air. At a recent 
Would you eat a plant that had a gene from a bacterium added to it? Would you favor advancements in agriculture that could help relieve world hunger and save millions of lives? These are two of the extreme sides of the debate over the use of GE seeds, considered by proponents as part of the “Supporting Sponsors
