Growfish is now ...The Family Fish Farms Network, Inc  

As the food crisis increases and the demand for fresh local food increases, we have decided to move from the  ranks of the non profit to a fully functional stock corporation.  Last week we formed FFFN as a "C" Corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware.  We are now free to raise funds and compete in the market for ideas and opportunity.   FFFN plans to change the way food is grown, distributed,…

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     Guest post on how-matters.org by David Peck of SoChange

Somehow I had managed to escape the flesh-eating, frenzied swarm of red fire ants that had been circling in the bottom of the boat as I anticipated our arrival. Size certainly doesn’t matter when it comes to fire ants, an entomological force to be reckoned with.

I stepped out of the small wooden canoe-like craft as…

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The number of polluted "dead zones" in the world's oceans is rising fast and coastal fish stocks are more vulnerable to collapse than previously feared, scientists said on Monday.



The spread of "dead zones" -- areas of oxygen-starved water -- "is emerging as a major threat to coastal ecosystems globally," the scientists wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



Such zones are found from the Gulf of Mexico to the Baltic Sea in areas where algae… Continue

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most significant of the greenhouse gases, accounting for over 80 percent of global warming pollution. Atmospheric levels of CO2 are now higher than at any time in the past 420,000 years. And the changes we are witnessing - and those that are predicted - are largely due to human behavior.



Around 97 percent of the CO2 emitted by western industrialized countries comes from burning coal, oil and gas for energy. We spew approximately 25 billion metric tons of… Continue