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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful..."

  
  SHODAN LIVES — Authority: 125
  “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (via Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma )
  3 days ago

• Science & Soul: I’m Back!

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  Sorry about the long wait, but work comes first.  Anyway, I am getting back in the swing of things for a little while. Science News in Brief The Large Haldron Collider has resumed operation and set a new world record for energy.  Its particle beams were accelerated at over one trillion volts.  This was just a ...
  4 days ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
  1 week ago

• Spending Less on Food, Spending More on Health Care

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 640
  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. …
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• Can Flexitarians Save the World?

  
  PETA Prime: Celebrating Kind Choices — Authority: 422
  Mark Bittman thinks so. He’s the author of the popular New York Times food column “ The Minimalist ” and the best-selling book Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating. In the book, Bittman proposes a simple plan for eating healthier and saving the planet at the same time: VB6 (which stands for ...
  1 week ago

• Eating Fresh and Local along the Penn Avenue Corridor

  
  IheartPGH.com — Authority: 124
  Everyone is surely thinking about food a lot more this week than usual. While planning your Thanksgiving feast, did you stop and think about eating fresh and local? This year for Thanksgiving, I’ll be enjoying my first taste of a fresh and local turkey from Pound’s Turkey Farm . I wouldn’t have thought about ...
  1 week ago

• Hubby the Hunter

  
  I Married an Omnivore! — Authority: 92
  My hubby is a hunter.  He recently returned from a week out in the woods, hunting deer.  It may seem odd to some people that a vegetarian/animal lover would marry a hunter, but for me, it all comes down to mutual respect. The way I see it, hubby has been hunting for years.  It’s an activity he enjoyed long ...
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• Defensive Omnivore BINGO!

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 565
  Have you ever wanted to have a handy dandy sheet of paper that would help you navigate those conversations? You know, the ones you have with “funny” omnivores? The ones where you wish you had a handy dandy sheet of paper to hold up in front of their faces and then punch them through a la three stooges? Well, ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer: Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Back in 1990, when a scholar named Carol J. Adams published “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,” it was nominated for the Diagram Prize, an annual award given to the book with the most inherently ludicrous title. It’s coming back into print next March, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Back in 1990, when a scholar named Carol J. Adams published “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,” it was nominated for the Diagram Prize, an annual award given to the book with the most inherently ludicrous title. It’s coming back into print next March, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michael Pollan of UC Berkeley and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma Speaks

  
  Circle of Food Blog — Authority: 137
  It’s long, and bit technical if you’re new to this topic (and I could have skipped the introduction of Michael Pollan at the start), but this talk about food sustainability by Michael... >>> Enjoy this appetizer. Hungry for the full course? Visit Circle of Food.
  2 weeks ago

• Joel Salatin is coming to speak in Santa Barbara

  
  cookiesinheaven — Authority: 417
  You might not recognized the name, but if you have seen the movies Fresh and Food, Inc., there is no way you could ever forget him! He will speak at the Faulkner Gallery and then provide a two-day training session in "Relocalization" December 9, 2009, 7 pm - 9 pm Public Talk: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Locavore’s Dilemma: What We Eat is More Than Just a Personal Choice

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 640
  I’m a cradle vegetarian. Didn’t have even a bite of meat — red or white, fish or fowl — until I was maybe eleven years old, and then I lost my dietary virginity to a hot dog. Go ahead and…
  2 weeks ago

• Olly Olly Oxen Free

  
  The Radical Middle — Authority: 423
  (for a day) Since the home office put up the pay wall and launched the premium site a couple of months ago, I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen — including my colleagues and patrons on the far end of the Boulevard of the Allies — that PG+ needed to do two things: add more content, and offer a free day. ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 129
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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