Small Scale Farming: Simple, Successful, Sustainable
Sugeno-san is a philosopher. His love affair with the land is poetry. “These trees are planted by our ancestors. These ‘tambos’ — the orderly descending terraces of rice paddy fields — are blessings from our communal mountains and forests. We smallholder farmers are the guardians of this Earth. It is our ancestral connection with their spirits. We pay our respects by respecting the land.” I realise that this deep and profound link between our planet and our humanity is being shattered by our human greed and ever-rising consumption. Read more…
Impacts on Water Quality after Hurricane Sandy
NOAA – Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center
Center Director: Dr. Reza Khanbilvardi
The City College of New York
June 12, 2013
In this presentation a simple, web-based method for scheduling irrigation is presented. The presentation was given at the 8th Annual NOAA CREST Symposium, The City College of City University of New York, NY, June 5-6, 2013.
Solar radiation data can be downloaded for the Northern Caribbean Region. Daily, monthly and annual data are available.
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