Intensive cattle farming is decimating the Amazon rainforest, but there is hope - in the shape of a marble-sized, purple berry, staple ingredient of a popular smoothie. Andrew Purvis visits the families whose lives are being transformed by the ultimate sustainable fruit Sunday November 18, 2007 The Observer Do you eat meat?' asks Jo o Meirelles Filho, a Brazilian conservationist living in Bel m, the last big city on our journey north from S o Paulo to the Amazon. Andrew Purvis visits the...

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JOHNS - Dairy farmer Ken Nobis reaches into a tall mound of what looks like topsoil and grabs a clump, which he looks over and quickly sniffs before crumbling it up. The humus, which is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, someday will be spread as fertilizer on Nobis' 3,000 acres of corn, wheat, soybeans and alfalfa fields. Its humus is dark and rich and virtually odor-free - which is surprising, given that much of it consists of cow manure and the decayed remains of dead cattle....

It s sad when anyone loses his or her life in an accident, but we are encouraged to see the number going down and not up. They commissioned artist Harold Holden to do the monument and raised money before donating the finished product to the city of Enid. So far, one Cherokee High School student has been charged with indecent exposure in an alleged hazing incident involving athletes at the school. They asked some good questions, and there was plenty of good discussion about issues facing...

Print Choose text size Email the author Digg this story Add to Facebook Tag on Delicious. Big corporations innovate and grow by buying smaller companies that have developed new ideas or technologies with growth potential and which the bigger companies, with their production and distributions systems, can grow much faster. Once acquired, the technology entrepreneur cedes control over the business to the new owner and forgoes independent commercialization of his technology and growth of his...

Just how many pounds we pack on (or keep off or fail to lose) may depend on what type of cues, other than hunger, get us eating, according to new research. In a study published in the October issue of the journal Obesity, a team of researchers led by Niemeier separated nonhunger eating cues into two categories: eating for "internal" reasons -- for example, how we're feeling, what we're thinking -- and eating for "external" reasons -- such as where we are, who we're with and how good the...

If population has a direct correlation to our sustainable environment - an argument I bought in 1968 - everything short of population control is a band-aid and will only extend the timeline for the ultimate conclusion - over-population will venetually consume all of our resources. If population has a direct correlation to our sustainable environment - an argument I bought in 1968 - everything short of population control is a band-aid and will only extend the timeline for the ultimate...

Many of the students are friends, and Pope John kids go to the public school for agriculture and industrial technology classes. When Omaha and Lincoln each have more than one high school playing in Nebraska football championship games in the same year, it's really no big deal. The 54-year-old Schmitt is a construction contractor who played quarterback for Pope John and graduated in the school's first class in 1972. The squads got a big send-off Tuesday night at a pep rally held at the...

We ate all day: fresh chicken, necks wrung only hours before; real potatoes and gravy; yeast rolls; corn and green beans; red Jell-O with bananas; and best of all, fresh baked pies with thick cream from the separator. In this day and age, it's hard to realize there was a time when there was no TV, no football games to watch, no cell phones to answer, and we actually talked to each other. Sometimes we tried to listen to the radio through the static, but mostly we sat around the table,...