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Land Institute

Type: Organization

Name: Land Institute

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Red Cross/Crescent

Land Institute in need of furniture, household items

The Land Institute, a nonprofit organization and research center southeast of Salina dedicated to developing perennial cereal grain crops, is in need of furniture and household items to furnish a house it purchased in 1987.The former farmhouse will be ... [Published Salina Journal - May 24 2013]

Entities: Land Institute, Water Well, Minneapolis (Minnesota, United States), Red Cross/Crescent

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Haskell Indian Nations University

KU to host international conference on environmental humanities

LAWRENCE – More than 700 scholars from all over the world interested in the intersections of environmental studies and the humanities will come to the University of Kansas from Tuesday, May 28, through Saturday, June 1, for the 10th biennial conference ... [Published University of Kansas - May 23 2013]

Entities: Environment, Haskell Indian Nations University, Wes Jackson

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Sun shines on KU graduates' smiles as they celebrate commencement

_ The rain ended and the clouds parted just in time for Kansas University’s commencement exercises to begin Sunday morning, and it seemed meant to be, Joel Coon said.“Just divine intervention here,” Coon said, looking up at the sky past the brim of his ... [Published Lawrence Journal-World - May 19 2013]

Entities: Wes Jackson, Bernadette Gray-Little, Karole Armitage, Wendell Castle, Land Institute

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Big day here for 2013 KU graduates

_ Today’s the day at Kansas University: Time for caps and gowns, the walk down the hill and, for just the second time in at least several decades, an address from a guest speaker.KU’s annual commencement is set for today, and officials expect about 4,000 ... [Published Lawrence Journal-World - May 18 2013]

Entities: Wes Jackson, Land Institute, Bernadette Gray-Little

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

National Association of Realtors

Webinar: Be Ready for Changes to the National Flood Insurance Program FREE!

This important two-hour presentation focuses on the significant revisions to the National Flood Insurance Program under the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, including the changes in rate structures and resulting price increases, as well ... [Published Commerical Builder - May 17 2013]

Entities: National Association of Realtors, National Association of Home Builders, Land Institute, Washington DC, Environmental Policy

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Kansas State University

Land Institute and KU environmental studies join to boost 'perennial polyculture'

KU News Service785-864-8855LAWRENCE — This weekend, when Wes Jackson, founder of the Salina-based Land Institute, addresses graduates at the University of Kansas’ 141st annual Commencement, it will cement a deepening relationship between the two inst ... [Published University of Kansas - May 16 2013]

Entities: Land Institute, Christopher Brown, Environment, Kansas State University

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

KU commencement set for 10:30 a.m. Sunday

_ Kansas University's spring 2013 graduates are set to begin their traditional walk down the hill at 10:30 a.m. Sunday for KU's 141st annual commencement, barring inclement weather.Gates to Memorial Stadium will open at 9 a.m., and graduates and faculty ... [Published Lawrence Journal-World - May 15 2013]

Entities: Wes Jackson, Land Institute, Sustainable Agriculture, Precipitation

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Reexamining Rationing

Recent interviews with Stan Cox author of Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing and book excerpt.Tom Ashbrook, On point, NPRA new book says rationing—of food, energy and more—is in our future. We hear the case, and the push ... [Published Resilience - May 15 2013]

Entities: Stan Cox, Brian Lehrer, Tom Ashbrook, Land Institute

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Natural Land Institute to host nature hike May 14

PECATONICA ? The Natural Land Institute will host a ?Wander at Pecatonica Woodlands Preserve? hike at 6 p.m. May 14 at the Torstenson Family Youth Conservation Education Center, 13735 Cook Road, Pecatonica.The group will wander through the preserve to ... [Published Rockford Register Star - May 12 2013]

Entities: Land Institute, Education

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

A Bid to Put Money Behind Slow Food Movement

BOULDER, Colo. Welcome, pig lovers, and welcome, earthworms! Woody Tasch bellowed from the stage of the Boulder Theater, where 650 food entrepreneurs and investors had wedged themselves for the opening day of the fourth Slow Money National Gathering. ... [Published New York Times - May 02 2013]

Entities: Slow Food, Wendell Berry, Entrepreneur, Venture capitalist, Jeffrey Greenberg

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Kerry Leigh talks about green development

Kerry Leigh, executive director of the Natural Land Institute, talks about the need for environmentally-friendly development in the Interstate 39 and Baxter Road corridor.Email ... [Published Rockford Register Star - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Land Institute

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Group Estimates Iowa Crop Land At $11,515 An Acre

A real estate agents group estimates high quality crop land in Iowa is worth $11,515 an acre.The Realtors Land Institute, made up of people specializing in farm and land sales, management and appraisal, say the average value is up 9.4 percent from September ... [Published WOWT - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Land Institute, Des Moines (Iowa, United States), Estate Agent, Soybean, Corn

Quotes

As reported in the TimesRepublican in Marshalltown May 5, "Per-acre values for tillable cropland have more than doubled since March 2008, increasing from $4,276 an acre to $8,691 an acre on average. Prices in the northwest region are growing, hitting $13,3987 per tillable acre..."

U.S. Farmland Hyperinflation: Iowa Cropland Acre Costs Double That of 2008; A Bubble, Not "Wealth" [Published Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee - May 09 2013]

...As Maude Barlow concluded in her 2007 book Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, "If ever there was a time for a plan of conservation and water justice to deal with the twin water crises of scarcity and inequity, now is that time. The world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will."

Rationing water in a thirstier world [Published Al Jazeera - May 06 2013]

"This type of conference is important because it gets everybody thinking out of the box" said panelist Grant Chaffin, a Blythe farmer

Global forum provides food for thought [Published UC Newswire - Apr 18 2013]

...And the environmental damage brought on by the agricultural sector poses significant threats to the industry itself. "The rise of processed foods and a push for high yield, single-crop farms, is leading to not only soil degradation and water scarcity, but also unhealthy consumers" says Ellen Gustafson, co-founder of Food Tank

Earth Day: 13 Things Everyone Can Do in 2013 [Published InvestorIdeas.com - Apr 17 2013]

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Land Institute in need of furniture, household ... [Published Salina Journal - May 24 2013]
KU to host international conference on environm... [Published University of Kansas - May 23 2013]
A River Runs Through It [Published TAPPED - May 21 2013]
Sun shines on KU graduates' smiles as they cele... [Published Lawrence Journal-World - May 19 2013]
Big day here for 2013 KU graduates [Published Lawrence Journal-World - May 18 2013]
Webinar: Be Ready for Changes to the National F... [Published Commerical Builder - May 17 2013]
Land Institute and KU environmental studies joi... [Published University of Kansas - May 16 2013]
KU commencement set for 10:30 a.m. Sunday [Published Lawrence Journal-World - May 15 2013]
KU’s 141st commencement set for Sunday [Published Wichita Eagle - May 15 2013]
Reexamining Rationing [Published Resilience - May 15 2013]
Rationing Are Way To Innovation [Published Forbes.com - May 13 2013]
Natural Land Institute to host nature hike May 14 [Published Rockford Register Star - May 12 2013]
U.S. Farmland Hyperinflation: Iowa Cropland Acr... [Published Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee - May 09 2013]
Unearthing the Value of Soil [Published Triple Pundit - May 07 2013]
Rationing water in a thirstier world [Published Al Jazeera - May 06 2013]
SUMMERS, ANNE RIVERS TRIPP [Published News-Record.com - May 05 2013]
A Bid to Put Money Behind Slow Food Movement [Published New York Times - May 02 2013]
An Effort to Add a Key Ingredient to the Slow F... [Published New York Times - May 02 2013]
Can We Make a Rationed World a Rational World? [Published Pacific Standard - May 01 2013]
Kerry Leigh talks about green development [Published Rockford Register Star - Apr 30 2013]
Group Estimates Iowa Crop Land At $11,515 An Acre [Published WOWT - Apr 30 2013]
Earth Day becomes weeklong event in DeKalb [Published Daily Chronicle - Apr 22 2013]
Earth Day: Thirteen Ways to Support the Planet [Published Duluth Patch - Apr 22 2013]
13 things everyone can do in 2013 12:00 pm [Published La Junta Tribune - Apr 21 2013]
13 Things to Do for Earth Day [Published Norcross Patch - Apr 21 2013]
Earth Day: 9 Things Carlsbad Residents Can Do [Published Carlsbad Patch - Apr 20 2013]
Danielle Nierenberg: Earth Day: 13 Things Every... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 19 2013]
Wes Jackson to speak at annual Research Forum 1... [Published McPherson Sentinel - Apr 18 2013]
Earth Day: 13 Things Everyone Can Do in 2013 [Published Fredericksburg Patch - Apr 18 2013]
Global forum provides food for thought [Published UC Newswire - Apr 18 2013]

Blogs

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A River Runs Through It [Published TAPPED - May 21 2013] Dennis Chamberlin To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds ...
Why We Must Put Nature Back to Work, Part 2 [Published Think Progress - Mar 26 2013] Image: ChangingClimate.osu.edu By Bill Becker, via Huffington Post In its new assessment of America’s infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) found that much of it is aging and substandard. Among the systems needing repairs ...
Dispersion in the World's Largest Urban Areas [Published Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and p ... - Feb 06 2013] No decade in history has experienced such an increase in urban population as the last. From Tokyo-Yokohama, the world's largest urban area (population: 37 million) to Godegård , Sweden, which may be the smallest (population: 200), urban areas added ...