The Future of Food Policy: Michael Pollan on PBS
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffPBS legend Bill Moyers sits down with leading food expert Michael Pollan to talk politics, agribusiness and the future of food. Click here to watch this terrific discussion about how to improve the U.S. food system. What ...
Food and Fuel
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffPrices for corn and oil are falling in tandem. If you've driven by a gas station recently, you've probably noticed that gas prices are tumbling. What you may realize is that the prices of ...
Image of the Day: Food Security in Japan
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffIf you haven't yet seen this video from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), you're missing out. One of the cooler PSAs I've ever seen, it offers an entertaining animated rundown of food ...
Image of the Day: This Lawn is Your Lawn
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffThis Lawn is Your Lawn from roger doiron on Vimeo. With the desire for "change" almost a tangible presence in the U.S. right now, a lot of people who have been waiting a very long time are ...
Locavore Valley: The Next Big Boom?
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffIn difficult economic times, it helps to learn from those who have been through hardship and found a way to recover. Perhaps that's why this story about Hardwick, Vermont, published in last week's New York Times, ...
U.S. Fish Farms Tap Former Coal Mines for Water
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffIn the Appalachian mountains of the United States, growing numbers of fish farmers are raising trout, catfish, and even salmon throughout the valleys of the state of West Virginia. What they'd rather not tell you, ...
Headlines from Worldchanging Seattle (09/05/08)
Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffIn celebration of the official debut of Worldchanging Seattle, we bring you our Seattle to the World series: a collection of the 100 best local innovations, institutions, policies and people that we think could benefit readers ...
LA Half-Way House Starts Vertical Farm
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffSince moving into the Los Angles half-way house two years ago, residents of the Rainbow Apartments have been devising a plan to start their own urban garden. After a few trials and errors, the novice gardeners ...
LA Half-Way House Starts Vertical Farm
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffSince moving into the Los Angles half-way house two years ago, residents of the Rainbow Apartments have been devising a plan to start their own urban garden. After a few trials and errors, the novice gardeners ...
Everybody Eats: The Unifying Power of Food
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffBy Sharon Hoyer There probably isn’t a single issue of sustainability and health that consistently strikes as passionate a chord as the production, distribution and preparation of food. It makes sense—what we take into our bodies is ...
Everybody Eats: The Unifying Power of Food
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffBy Sharon Hoyer There probably isn’t a single issue of sustainability and health that consistently strikes as passionate a chord as the production, distribution and preparation of food. It makes sense—what we take into our bodies is ...
Cities are for People: The Limits of Localism
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffColumbia Professor Dickson Despommier has generated a fair amount of attention with his concept for "vertical farms," stacked, self-contained urban biosystems that would -- theoretically -- supply fresh produce for city residents year round. The New ...
British GMO Protests Highlight Global Divide
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffBritish opposition to genetically modified crops is on the rise, prompting security concerns at research laboratories across the country. Nearly all 54 U.K. pesticide-resistant crop trials attempted in the past eight years have been attacked, according ...
New Fish Farms Move from Ocean to Warehouse
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffEarlier this week, on a spring day in April, John Stubblefield walked past the blue tanks of striped bass, Atlantic sea bream, and cobia stored inside a Baltimore, Maryland, laboratory. "In this tank, it's spring in ...
International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffBy Ben Block A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling for an end to "business-as-usual" farming practices to avoid widespread environmental degradation and increasing food scarcity. The group of more than ...
International Agricultural Assessment: We Need a Paradigm Shift
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Food and Farming, Green News | Comments OffBy Ben Block A commission of international agriculture experts unveiled a series of reports on Wednesday calling for an end to "business-as-usual" farming practices to avoid widespread environmental degradation and increasing food scarcity. The group of more than ...