Biodiverse

Here she is milking a cow in the summer of 1943 on the farm in Canada where my Scottish grandpa grew a variety of crops and raised cows, pigs, goats, chickens and who knows what else -- you know, the kind of biodiverse, small family farm we sustainable ag advocates are always going on about. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Are monoculture fish farms using sustainable practices enough, or just another form of monoculture crop that doesn't leverage biodiversity to restore healthy biodiverse living systems? ❋ MD Mark Hyman (2011)

Adopting these recommendations will help ensure a healthy, biodiverse Gulf of Mexico and strong, vibrant Gulf Coast communities for generations to come. ❋ Dennis Takahashi-Kelso (2012)

While humans have a long way to go towards living sustainably on this planet, millions of species – each with nearly 4 billion years of field testing – contain technological ideas to help us succeed in our all-important quest to become a sustainable species on a biodiverse planet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it's a cleaner, quieter, safer, more biodiverse way of doing things too. ❋ Peter Guest (2011)

I'm now settling into a long term project looking at the Coral Triangle -- the most biodiverse marine ecosystem on the planet. ❋ James Morgan (2011)

I only wish that more educational policy makers would get their heads out of their data and wake up and smell the coffee---coffee that originated, of course, in the rainforest...the most biodiverse ecosystem on this planet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The animals were discovered in a biodiverse region that is threatened by habitat loss, deforestation, climate change and overdevelopment, the WWF said in a report. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Relying on a shallow gene pool puts our food system on unsteady legs--diseases and pests spread like wildfire across monoculture fields, but are kept in check in a biologically diverse often shortened to "biodiverse" field or region. ❋ Maria Rodale (2011)