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Danielle Nierenberg's Blog – September 2010 Archive (5)

Using Dirt to Make Water Clean

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



In 2004 Peter Njodzeka founded the Life and Water…

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Added by Danielle Nierenberg on September 29, 2010 at 15:52 — No Comments

Putting a Stop to the Spreading Sands

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



Throughout the Sahel, recurrent drought since the late 1960’s is turning once crop covered land into desert. And the sand is spreading. Picked up by wind, dunes created by soil particles from the West African coastline and the Sahel are covering villages, roads, crops, and… Continue

Added by Danielle Nierenberg on September 22, 2010 at 19:29 — No Comments

Innovation of the Week: From the Township Garden to the City Table

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



Townshiptogarden Around 1 million people in South Africa—the majority of whom are

recent arrivals from the former apartheid homelands, Transkei and…

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Added by Danielle Nierenberg on September 16, 2010 at 13:33 — No Comments

Innovation of the Week: Water Out of Thin Air

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.…

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Added by Danielle Nierenberg on September 8, 2010 at 18:52 — No Comments

Staying Tuned for More Innovations

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



Listen to Radio Fanaka Fana and Radio Jigiya, in the Fana and Zégoua regions of Mali, and you are much more likely to hear tips for improving compost piles and soil quality than you are pop music hits or current events. That’s because the station is participating in…

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Added by Danielle Nierenberg on September 1, 2010 at 20:00 — No Comments

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