Nadine Touzet's Profile

funnel too much heat out in the winter and let too
much heat in the summer

weatherization

Recovery Act

tax credits for energy
efficiency upgrades to your home

Retrofit Ramp Up

home
retrofits

property
tax bil

Since the
financing would be attached to the property tax bill, both the savings
and the loan payments stay with the house if the owners decide to sell

home
weatherization

the highest standards of
accountability

caulk guns

insulation blowers

Weatherization Assistance
Program

green workforce development

the omnivore's debate

monocultures

the grain elevator in town

farm policies

spike

the agribusiness lobby

Eric Schlosser's work

The Journal of the American Enterpriser Institute

"The Omnivores Delusion - Against the Agri-Intellectuals,"

Farm Bureau in Wisconsin

Right now, 90 percent of the consumers' food dollar goes to middlemen, processors, marketers

pasture-raised livestock

cogent

he honed right in on them

let a thousand flowers bloom

new markets and new kinds of food being raised

there are environmental costs to turning our back on technology

no-till farming

beef cattle farm

Pasteur-cultury

grass-finishing our beef

The CSA is a program where members pay up front for a season of vegetables

grain-buyers

true cost

farm programs

total direct farm payments

farming comes about 40 percent government payments

commodity farmers

American Corn Growers Association

post-peak oil world

cover crops

widening out our rotations and utilizing animal manures

to raise the same amount of corn

So there's erosion costs. There's land cost. There's water cost, and there's labor cost.

greenhouse sales

I have tried to run our whole farm in the black with no loans

it's a tough road to hoe

pastured poultry

Roundup Ready seed

an eight-year rotation. They'll do five years of cattle on grass, they'll rotate them around their pastures. And then they'll do three years of grain. And they find if they do that, there's so much fertility in the soil, they don't need to use any nitrogen for three years of grain. They also don't need any herbicides. You know, that means putting animals back on farms.

agricultural schools

in need to be producing 13 billion bushels of corn

rich enough not to worry about where their next meal was coming from

Gary H. Toenniessen, director of agricultural programs for the Rockefeller Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican hunger project

the greatest disease of wheat, a fungus called rust

locales

seed heads containing wheat grains

“semidwarf” plants

rice, the staple crop for nearly half the world’s population

environmental and social critics

career path

assault on hunger

Mexican soils were depleted, the crops were ravaged by disease, yields were low and the farmers could not feed themselves, much less improve their lot by selling surplus

he manipulated tiny wheat blossoms to cross different strains

corn-based ethanol

growing algae for fuel

bear root

hard-edged reality

turning algae into vegetable oil fuel

oil-to-fuel efforts

carbon dioxide waste stream

algae beds

waste heat

solar radiation

algae farm

a part owner-operator

debt-to-asset ratio

bioreactors

specialty plastics

feedstock

tax subsidy for ethanol

Urban Land Institute

parcels

inactive farmland

tract subdivision

working agriculture

epicurean club

local community-supported agriculture group

retiree-friendly businesses

wildflower meadow

edible landscaping

tracts of ranchland

functional agricultural units

Farm-focused developers

root crops

road frontage