agriculture
Developing and Expanding Renewable Energy and Fuel Options
The burning of fossil fuels for energy production is a leading cause of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.
Sequestering Greenhouse Gases in Soils, Trees, and Underground
There are several ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, both natural and engineered. Plants naturally absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere as part of the process of photosynthesis.
New Mexico’s FoodShed Alliance
By Michelli Murphy |
The University of Arizona |
March 30, 2009
FoodPrint NM in New Mexico is working to shrink the distance between the farm and the fork and curb climate change in the process.
1st Annual Jatropha Farming Conference & Expo
May 15, 2009 - May 17, 2009 | Desert Center, California | Event Web site
FBI Farms Invites you to come and experience a working Jatropha Plantation. Watch live demonstrations of seed propagation, planting, pruning, automated mechanical harvesting, and the expelling of oil from Jatropha seeds for fuel to power the aviation industry, biodiesel production, and large scale energy generation.
94th Annual ESA Meeting: Ecological Knowledge and a Global Sustainable Society
August 2, 2009 - August 7, 2009 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | Event Web site
With fossil fuels waning, a public awareness of global warming and biodiversity issues increasing, and new green technologies breaking into public markets, the world is poised for planning sustainability of a global society.
Agriculture
Groundwater in the Arid Southwest
Groundwater plays a critical role in human development and in maintaining important natural ecosystems in the arid Southwest. It helps sustain the flow of streams and rivers and maintains riparian and wetland habitats that are vital to plants, animals, and people.
Phenology: Changes in Ecological Lifecycles
Lilac flowers bloom when the tree gets its cues from the weather. Caribou give birth at the peak of plant abundance so that their newborns have plenty to eat. In the Southwest, as well as all other parts of the world, variations in the climate trigger life cycle events in plants and animals. Studying these events and their relation to climate is known as phenology.