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UH CTAHR’s Sustainable Ag Program

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14 February 2010

Unveils Newsletter and Improved Website
Significant and positive changes have happened over the past year at the University of Hawai'i's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resource program for sustainable agriculture.

In April, 2009, Dr. Ted Radovich, Extension Specialist at CTAHR's Sustainable and Organic Farming Systems Laboratory, became the newly designated Coordinator of the Western Region Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education (WSARE) program. The WSARE Program annually offers several grant programs for innovative sustainable agriculture projects. Dr. Radovich is a strong proponent of research in organic growing methods and improving soil fertility.

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Benefits of Shade-Grown Coffee

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Written by The Independent Voice | Kona Coffee Farmers Association Newsletter | 14 January 2010

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A new study of shade-grown coffee in Kona showed that yields were not decreased with up to 40-50% shade.

Craig Elevitch has now completed his extensive study of shade-grown coffee, one that several of our members collaborated in, and the results are intriguing. They illustrate potential environmental benefits and recommend shade levels that can maintain high coffee productivity.

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Start-up guide for an organic self-reliance garden

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14 December 2009

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A new free publication of the Hawaii County Resource Center introduces beginning gardeners to concepts of organic self-reliance gardens.

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Seeing Our Economy Clearly

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Written by Pedro Tama | 05 December 2009

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Review: "Inverting the Economic Order," by Wendell Berry, The Progressive, September 2009

[Note: Unfortunately, Inverting the Economic Order is only available at larger libraries and to subscribers of The Progressive.   To compensate, I have quoted generously to provide a fuller dimension to Berry's essay. -PT]

Upon finishing Wendell Berry's remarkable truth-telling essay "Inverting the Economic Order," one reader wrote: "Please reprint it into pamphlet form and distribute it to every high school and college library in this land, so needful of an agrarian resurrection." Yet another wrote: "The new Wendell Berry article is incredibly important and must be spread as widely as possible."

So what's all the fuss about?

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The Carbon Footprint of Food

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Written by Elisabeth Rosenthal | New York Times | 05 November 2009

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Sweden is probably the world's leader in studying and implementing policies to reduce green-house gas emissions. It has set goals of eliminating fossil fuel use for electricity by 2020, and eliminating gasoline powered vehicles by 2030. Now, based on a new study showing that greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by more than 20% if people changed the way they eat, it has issued new food labeling guidelines for specific foods to include the carbon-dioxide content involved in the production of that food.

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