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• NYC Climate Summit Puts the Focus on Food

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 462
  Get rich quick! Lose weight fast! We squander billions each year on scams that promise easy money and effortless weight loss. Still, the pounds pile up, the money doesn’t, and our tanking bank balances and spiking weight distract us from the more remote, abstract problem of climate change. But we could find true ...
  1 day ago

• Catch of the Freezer

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Image via Wikipedia GO local. Eat organic . Buy fresh. Those food mantras continue to make waves among environmentally conscious consumers. But — as is often the case in these climate-conscious times — if the motivation is to truly make our diets more earth-friendly, then perhaps we need a new mantra: Buy ...
  2 days ago

• Don’t Blame Cows for Climate Change

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 449
  Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate change, says a University of California authority on farming and greenhouse gases. UC Davis Associate Professor and Air Quality ...
  3 days ago

• The Real Story of Food

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 116
  USC Canada’s new short, animated film will get you thinking about our broken food system. It identifies what’s gone wrong, and what we can do to rebuild it. See the video at FoodCycles.org . Posted in Agriculture, Calls to Action, climate change, Environment & Sustainability, Fair Trade, Food, Food Security, ...
  6 days ago

• Spending Less on Food, Spending More on Health Care

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 665
  As the health-care bill passes through Congress, one wonders about an issue that has been left out of discussions.  No, not abortion.  Food.  How much is what we eat linked to what we spend on health care? First, consider the costs. …
  2 weeks ago

• The Missing Mass of American Food

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 432
  Do What Grandma Told You...Dont Waste Food Kevin Hall, a quantitative physiologist at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and his colleague Carson Chow, a mathematician at NIDDK, would like to know where the missing mass of American food has gone. Hall and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food, Inc.

  
  ModEco Kids - eco-friendly and handmade gifts for children — Authority: 114
  My husband and I watched this documentary last weekend. Food, Inc. exposes America’s industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers’ rights. You can read more about the issues here . Over at the Simple Living Network forums I learned of similar-themed documentary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Good Time for Sustainable Food Growth Workshops?

  
  Shlok Vaidya's Thinking — Authority: 126
  Now. At the community level – training/information dissemination is much more useful than actually growing food at this point. (At the individual level, grow, grow, grow.)
  3 weeks ago

• Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 128
  Sometimes I buy a a book and it takes me forever to read the thing. Not because it’s a bad book, but rather because I sometimes just don’t have the time to sit down and read! That’s what happened to me with The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. I bought this book ...
  3 weeks ago

• You are who they pay off

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  By Edward Copeland Maybe its the fact that Hollywood is in such doldrums that they are so afraid to take chances and think the next big thing is making movies based on toys and board games that makes well-made documentaries so often beat their offerings in quality and appeal. Even the indie market seems to have hit a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Great Green Job of the Week: Accountant, Appalachian Sustainable Development

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  Appalachian Sustainable Development is seeking a full-time accountant in Abingdon, Virginia. Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD) is a not-for-profit organization working in the Appalachian region of Virginia and Tennessee.  Formed in 1995, ASD focuses on developing healthy, diverse and ecologically sound ...
  4 weeks ago

• Do Vertical Farms Make Sense?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 653
  SoA Architects- the future of farming? Philip Proefrock and TreeHugger emeritus Hank Green are no fun at a party, if it is a party like the one designers and bloggers like us have been having on the subject of vertical farms for the last five years. From Mikes first post in 2005 (showing SoA Architectes iconic ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Lawyers Who Would Torture

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 142
  Acting in bad faith, the legal hacks who crafted the torture memos engaged in sham analysis and tricky legal gymnastics. Motivated by a desire to please their superiors and little else, they merely... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 weeks ago

• A Natural Obsession

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Image by James Morrison via Flickr Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science— won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture. When delegates from 192 nations arrive in Copenhagen in December for the UN COP15 summit, they ...
  6 weeks ago

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