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  • Toward a More Energy Efficient Food System


    Green Fork Blog — Authority Authority: 105
    It’s important to understand the many interconnections between the food and energy sectors in order to make good consumer choices and develop prudent public policy. A recent Scientific American article by Michael E. Webber makes a big contribution to this effort by examining the food system through the “lens ...
    1 day ago

  • Himachal farmers going organic - 25,000 of them


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 534
    Shimla, Jan 18 (IANS) Going organic is the new mantra in Himachal Pradesh, with over 25,000 farmers cashing in on the high demand and remunerative prices of organic food - be it fruits, vegetables or pulses.“We are promoting organic farming to make agriculture a sustainable, environment-friendly and remunerative ...
    1 week ago

  • Up To 6.7 Million Bats Dead From White-Nose Syndrome


    Environment Blog — Authority Authority: 116
    In 2006, scientists began to notice that a mysterious disease was decimating bat populations in upstate New York with unexpected speed and thoroughness. Now identified as ‘white-nose syndrome’, bat biologists estimate that this fast-moving disease has now killed as many as 6.7 million bats in North America over ...
    1 week ago

  • Do-It-Yourself Pest Control Backfires on Pizzeria


    San Diego Pest Control Blog — Authority Authority: 85
    An attempt to eliminate a bug infestation within a pizzeria using do-it-yourself pest control products resulted in an explosion that caused extensive damage to the front entrance and back roller doors. Although the interior damage was minimal, the overall repairs for the restaurant are at an estimated $100,000. The ...
    1 week ago

  • Cokes New Orange Juice Flavor: Fungicide?


    DailyFinance — Authority Authority: 557
    Filed under: Health Care , Coca-Cola Company , Pepsico , Food Coca-Cola ( KO ) has never shied away from trying new variations of its tried-and-true beverage (think New Coke and Cherry Coke). The company also is known for adding flavorful twists -- like lime and lemon -- to its drinks. But last week, Coke ...
    1 week ago

  • Tell Walmart to Reject New GMO Sweet Corn


    Green Fork Blog — Authority Authority: 105
    This growing season there’s a new GMO in town: Monsanto’s GE sweet corn . This Roundup Ready product is the first GE corn for direct human consumption, and it has not been tested by the USDA and will not be labeled.  If you’re unhappy about this, you’re not alone. The majority of consumers don’t want to ...
    1 week ago

  • Pesticides lurk in Hong Kong and China produce


    The Site for Alamogordo, Holloman AFB & New Mexico — Authority Authority: 110
    Unsafe food causes many acute and life-long diseases, including cancer. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that foodborne and waterborne diarrhoeal diseases kill about 2.2 million people annually, including 1.9 million children. Wherever you may be, you’ll hear news that the meat is tainted by hormone and ...
    1 week ago

  • Roundup on “Roundup”


    Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority Authority: 106
    Dianne is quoted in this week’s Lawyers Weekly about the hard-won “special review” of glyphosate, a weed-control product that contains the pesticide polyoxyethylene tallow amines, and is also known as Roundup. The case is:  Wier v. Canada (Minister of Health) , [2011] F.C.J. No. 1583.  The article is ...
    1 week ago

  • Ecology of Fashion


    The Urban Times — Authority Authority: 428
    This article marks the second in Urban Times’ EcoFashion Series. We hope to shed some light on the eco fashion industry by exploring elements such as the sustainability, culture, ecology, psychology, labour and future of fashion. Our authors explore to what extent eco fashion is on the cusp of becoming the next big ...
    1 week ago

  • Don’t forget: Vanishing honeybees


    Greenfudge.org - Climate Change, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Controversial issues, Politics, Non Profit, Human Rights, Preservation — Authority Authority: 112
    photo by Jeremy Good (jmgmusic519 on Flickr CC) We depend on honeybees to pollinate some 70 crops. Due to a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), honeybees, mainly in North America, are dying off at a shocking rate – 30% every year since 2006. In the US, bee die-offs have qualified some beekeepers ...
    1 week ago

  • Are Our Pesticides Responsible For Collapsing Honey Bee Population?


    THE9BILLION — Authority Authority: 492
    Pesticides may be to blame for the  dwindling honey bee population , according to a Purdue University study. Powdery waste from seed planters was found to contain as much as 700,000 times a bee’s lethal dosage of neonicotinoid insecticides, as well as traces of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, in dead bees and hives ...
    1 week ago

  • Noose the Juice?


    More Apples a Day: A Journey to 150 — Authority Authority: 95
    Tropicana sued over ’100 percent pure and natural’ orange juice claim FDA halts orange juice imports to test for pesticide The media takes such stories as these and whimsically thrusts them through our televisions, newspapers, and internet sources rather hastily, almost as hastily as we will forget them ...
    1 week ago

  • Waiting


    The Nervous Breakdown — Authority Authority: 425
    Over the course of the past year, the final year of my twenties, many of my closest friends have become mothers. Which is to say, they have come to understand the design of their bodies as evolutionary miracles, capable of withstanding great pressure, change, eruption. The body as engine. Their entire lives must now ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Bhopal tragedy survivors burn Chidambaram’s effigy


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 534
    Bhopal, Jan 14 (IANS) The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy Saturday burnt an effigy of Home Minister P. Chidambaram to protest the decision of a ministerial panel not to revise in the curative petition pending before the Supreme Court the figures of dead and injured in the disaster.The leaders of survivors’ [...]
    2 weeks ago

  • Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’


    top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority Authority: 162
    http://www.guardian.co.uk Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’ Unusual honeybee die-offs have become so severe that some US beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief fundsAnyone who’s been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insects. It makes a strange kind ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Honeybee problem nearing a critical point


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    Unusual honeybee die-offs have become so severe that some US beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief funds Anyone whos been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insects. It makes a strange kind of sense, then, that their demise would create an outsized problem for the food system ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Corporations Can Legally Dump Toxic Waste in Fertilizers


    Ecopreneurist — Authority Authority: 412
    Why would anyone choose organic gardening?   Besides being a lot healthier, it is a whole lot cheaper than the alternative. Unfortunately there are a handful of very powerful multi national corporations that don’t want you to know that and they have politicians on both sides in their pocket. Now why is that so ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Research Linking Pesticide Use to Decline in Bee Population Suppressed


    News and Current Events — Authority Authority: 129
    Mike Barrett Activist Post It has recently been reported that certain research was suppressed concerning the bee decline which has been occurring over the past few years. It seems that the large sum of money raked in by Bayer, a maker of pesticides, was enough to kick research under the carpet that linked ...
    2 weeks ago

  • City Bee Project in Denmark – Video


    Ecology Global Network — Authority Authority: 419
    “It’s a completely crazy idea. But as soon as you think about it for a minute, it actually makes perfect sense…” So says Oliver Walker, founder of The City Bee project. It is estimated that honey bees are the most valuable pollinators of crops worldwide. But in recent years there has been a global trend of ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Punjab to prepare Cancer Atlas


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 534
    Chandigarh, Jan 12 (IANS) With reports of growing incidence of cancer in Punjab’s Malwa belt, authorities have decided to prepare a cancer atlas in the state.The health department said Thursday that the “Atlas of Cancer” will be readied to know the actual incidence of the disease in Punjab and take steps to ...
    2 weeks ago

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