Agroforestry Found On Nearly Half The World’s Farms
Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffFor centuries, farmers have placed trees among their crops to enhance soil health, raise marketable fruits or nuts, and protect row crops from damaging winds. Yet agroforestry, as the practice is known, is generally considered a ...
The Case Against Organic Food Does Not Stand Up
Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffBy Peter Melchett There really are nutritional benefits, as research to be published next year will show Ben Goldacre says the Soil Association's criticism of the recent Food Standards Agency research on nutrients is "not about organic ...
Are You a Vegetarian, or Just Vegcurious?
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffNews about the planetary impacts of meat-based diets is causing some eaters to reconsider their carnivorous ways. Red meat in particular results in a disproportionately higher amount of greenhouse gas emissions than <a href="http://www.good.is/post/red-meat-is-bad-for-the-environment-the-chart/ ">other food, ...
Are You a Vegetarian, or Just Vegcurious?
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffNews about the planetary impacts of meat-based diets is causing some eaters to reconsider their carnivorous ways. Red meat in particular results in a disproportionately higher amount of greenhouse gas emissions than <a href="http://www.good.is/post/red-meat-is-bad-for-the-environment-the-chart/ ">other food, ...
What’s in a Name? For the Slimehead and Toothfish, the Extreme Makeover Leads to Rampant Overfishing
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments Off“If the slimehead were still a slimehead, it wouldn’t be in this kind of trouble,” begins a good WashPost story today on overfishing of the Orange roughy and other fish with popular nom de plumes. ...
USDA: Economic Benefits Of Climate Bill For Farmers ‘Easily Trump’ The Costs
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffGiven the importance of the agricultural sector to climate action, I’m going to repost both a Wonk Room piece by Brad Johnson and an analysis by Jake Caldwell, Director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade & Energy ...
USDA: Economic Benefits Of Climate Bill For Farmers ‘Easily Trump’ The Costs
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffGiven the importance of the agricultural sector to climate action, I’m going to repost both a Wonk Room piece by Brad Johnson and an analysis by Jake Caldwell, Director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade & Energy ...
Geoff Lawton: Developing a Permaculture Master Plan
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Louis Fox I think Permaculturist Geoff Lawton is doing some of the best work in the world. My pick is him and his PRI Training Center: it's being developed to help implement his permaculture ...
People’s Grocery: Building Food Security From Within
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Gregory Dicum When everyone's talking local food systems, here are some folks who have actually built one, and in a seriously disadvantaged city to boot. They've been at it for seven years now -- it ...
People’s Grocery: Building Food Security From Within
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Gregory Dicum When everyone's talking local food systems, here are some folks who have actually built one, and in a seriously disadvantaged city to boot. They've been at it for seven years now -- it ...
Growfood.org: Networking a 21st Century Food System
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Liz Kirkham Growfood.org connects a new generation with the small farm experience and facilitates apprenticeships for aspiring farmers. In 2001, when they were 20 years old, Ethan Schaffer (Brower Youth Award Winner, 2002) ...
Quick question: how to measure virtual calories?
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffI have a question. Some activists frequently make the point that certain diets are not only more calorie rich than others, but take more food calories to produce (meat-heavy diets, for instance, often demand many times ...
Quick question: how to measure virtual calories?
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffI have a question. Some activists frequently make the point that certain diets are not only more calorie rich than others, but take more food calories to produce (meat-heavy diets, for instance, often demand many times ...
Fresh From…the City
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffCitizens and local policymakers join up to get fresh foods to schools and neighborhoods. by Mark Winne Cleveland city councilor Joe Cimperman at the construction of Wonder City Farm, one of the city’s many “asphalt” vegetable gardens. Photo courtesy ...
Fresh From…the City
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffCitizens and local policymakers join up to get fresh foods to schools and neighborhoods. by Mark Winne Cleveland city councilor Joe Cimperman at the construction of Wonder City Farm, one of the city’s many “asphalt” vegetable gardens. Photo courtesy ...
The Meal Less Traveled?
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffBy Benita Beamon What you eat may be more important than where it came from. There may be many reasons to eat locally: supporting your local economy, ensuring food freshness, curbing sprawl, or reducing unnecessary energy use. One of ...
U.S. Secretary Alludes to Major Changes for Nation’s Agricultural System
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffIn less than five minutes, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speeds through multiple ideas that could radically change the way America farms, from decreasing government subsidies, to encouraging farmers to use and create renewable energy. Vilsack tells ...
Local Agriculture: Healthy on its Own Terms
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffShannon Hayes, whose family operates a small farm, wrote an op-ed in yesterday's New York Times describing how the National Animal Identification System, the controversial practice of tagging livestock to help control the spread of disease ...
Food Deserts and Delivery: Discussions from the Pacific Northwest
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffCan Amazon's grocery service help poor neighborhoods? "Food deserts" are places in urban areas where people have limited access to healthy, fresh, and reasonably-priced food. In Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash., food deserts tend to be in ...
Finding Out Where Your Food’s From: The Food Map
Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffImage by Il Primo Uomo via Flickr For those of us participating in the global economy, going to the grocery store is an international experience -- mangoes from Chile, a box of macaroni and cheese from Wisconsin, ...