Agriculture

A $200 Dollar Barrel of Oil Probably Won't Affect Me That Much -- Why? I Live in Europe

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.29.2008 | Green

Read More: France, Take Back Control of Your Life, Genetically Modified, Agriculture, Oil, Food, Suv, Organic, $200 Oil, Velib, Quality of Life, Sustainable, Environment, Green News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Take back control of your life! Live in a place which has sidewalks! And walk instead of paying a trainer or going to a gym, and plant an urban garden patch.

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Is Locally Grown Food Going Corporate?

Laura Weiss | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Long Island, Organic Farming, Whole Foods, Manhattan, Eating Organic, Worldwatch Institute, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Food, Edible East End, New York City, Green News
Laura Weiss

If locally grown veggies are packed in plastic tubs, crammed into trucks, and shipped off to grocery stores, how different are they from any other produce section offering?

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The Real Food Crisis

John Feffer | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Energy, Food Crisis, Global Warming, Agriculture, North Korea, Politics News
John Feffer

The current food crisis is an early warning, and it looks as though we're ignoring it -- there are ever more people to feed and a declining ability to feed them all.

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Destroying African Agriculture

Walden Bello | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Biofuels, Trade, Food Crisis, Malawi, World Bank, Agriculture, Africa, Imf, Wto, Structural Adjustment, Politics News
Walden Bello

African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.

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A Hunger Conference with Canapes and Thinly Sliced Veal

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Italy, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Rome, The Environmentalist, World Hunger, Politics, Agriculture, United Nations, Green, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Business, Oxfam, Lifestyle, Drought, Hunger, Inflation, Famine, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Climate Change, U.N., Environment, Robert Mugabe, Global Warming, Green News
Janet Ritz

"Leaders can eat what they want as long as they take decisive action to deliver the policies and the aid in agriculture that is needed to ensure that poor people who are suffering from high food prices are helped," said Alexander Woollcombe, a spokesman for the British aid group Oxfam.

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Hold the Methane: Grass Innovation Means Gas Free Cows

World Changing | Julia Steinberger | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Cows, Dairy, Agriculture, Methane, Green News

A recent innovation from scientists in Australia and New Zealand offers hope for humans to continue our love affair with meat and dairy products. The ...

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The McDonalds Falling Dollar Menu

Michael Pento | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Commodities, Dollar, Weak Dollar, Agriculture, McDonald's, Dollar Menu, McDonalds Stock, Business News
Michael Pento

Because the dollar has fallen 40% in the last six years, McDonalds may have to reduce quality, raise prices or both in their famed Dollar Menu.

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The U.S. Farm Bill & the Global Food Crisis

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business

Read More: US Food Aid, Global Food Crisis, Biofuels, Biofuel, Food Policy Research Institute, Agriculture, Food Policy, Business News
Terra Lawson-Remer

U.S. food "aid" is more a vehicle to dump excess U.S. production than a benefit for hungry populations.

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A Farm Bill for All Americans

Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Farm Workers, Usda, Farm Bill, Veto, Agriculture, Nutrition Farmers, President Bush, Congressman Joe Baca, Override, Politics News
Rep. Joe Baca

Today's vote by Congress to override Bush's Farm Bill veto was a loud message to the president, in support of all Americans who need the support the bill provides.

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Einstein, Atheism and One Big Bowl of Rice

Derek Beres | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Science, Rice, Agriculture, Evolutionary Biology, Richard Dawkins, Atheism, Albert Einstein, Einstein, Crop, Living News
Derek Beres

People do not need God. I'd go a step further than Einstein's plea -- one echoing through the New Atheists, as they've been dubbed: not only is the idea too vast for our minds, it's an unnecessary hypothesis.

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Farm Bill Baloney

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Farm Bill, Farm Subsidies, Agriculture, Farm Bills, Politics News
Benjamin R. Barber

This isn't the 19th century. Today, with less than a couple percent of Americans still working the land, it's not struggling farmers but huge agribusiness firms that rake in the profits from farm subsidies.

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How The War On Drugs Takes Horticultural Hostages

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Afghanistan, Asparagus, Aghan Poppy Crop, Agriculture, War on Drugs, Taliban, Diabetes, Michigan, Living News
Kerry Trueman

It's a safe bet that diabetics outnumber crackheads in the U.S. by a big fat margin, but the corn cartel's got carte blanche to fill us (and our gas tanks) with their Beltway-blessed by-products.

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Bush's "Bread Man"

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Climate, Maryland, Agriculture, Campaign Finance, George W. Bush, Paterakis, Conservation Reserve Program, Ducks, Biofuels, Environment, Baking, McDonald's, H & S Bakery, Industrial Agriculture, Global Warming, Baltimore, Wildlife, Politics News
Glenn Hurowitz

Last week, The New York Times's David Streitfeld told the story of one JR Paterakis, a Baltimore "baker" who opposes the Conservation Reserve Program ...

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From Vacant Lots to Verdant Plots: The Leaders Who'll Feed Us

Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Brooklyn Rescue Mission, Community Building, Bed-Stuy Farm, Alice Waters, Abu Talib, Farming, Prince Charles, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Duchy Originals, East New York Farms, Living News
Kerry Trueman

While famous foodies like Alice Waters, Jamie Oliver, and Michael Pollan lead the War on Terrible Food, there's an army of unsung heroes who make up the muckboots on the ground, if you will.

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The Greenhorns: A New Breed Of American Idol?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Severine Von Tcharner Fleming, The Greenhorns, Farmers, Agribiz, Farms, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Documentaries, Living News
Kerry Trueman

With dwindling resources, climate change, and the triple threats of peak oil, peak soil, and peak water nipping at our heedless heels, industrial agriculture is becoming a "luxury" we can't afford.

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The Green Revolution 2.0

Nancy Scola | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Bill Gates, Agriculture, The Green Revolution, Biotech Agriculture, Golden Rice, Technology, Business News
Nancy Scola

Gates' Green Revolution 2.0 could save millions of lives! But a launch this important calls for at least as much poking and prodding as that of a new operating system.

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How Oil Finds its Way Into Your Starbucks Latte, and Other Good News

Carla Wise | Posted 01.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Coffee, Agriculture, Farming, Oil, Sustainable Food, Starbucks, Living News
Carla Wise

Starbucks' plight illustrates how soaring oil prices are beginning to affect our food system in all kinds of fascinating ways. I see this as a possible path to our salvation.

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Old MacDonald Had A Subdivision, E-I-E-I-Yo!

Kerry Trueman | Posted 12.05.2007 | Living

Read More: Small Farms, Conservation Community, Housing, Agriculture, Urban Sprawl, Living News
Kerry Trueman

A farm-friendly style of development is a brilliant way to preserve farmland and still provide needed housing.

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Somebody Has the Upper Hand, But It Isn't the American Farmer

Nancy Scola | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics

Read More: Agriculture, Farm Bill, Agricultural Corporations, Dick Lugar, Kent Conrad, Lugar Lautenberg Bill, Tom Harkin, Free Trade, Globalization, Protectig Farmers, Farmers Rights, Politics News
Nancy Scola

U.S. agriculture subsidies are in some ways the worst of both worlds. They weaken the ability of Caribbean farmers to compete, and they're not helpful for American farmers either.

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Monsanto Considered An Ideal Vehicle For Green Investing

Seeking Alpha | Posted 10.11.2007 | Business

Read More: Agriculture, Monsanto, Frankenfood, Business News

In the late 1990s, genetically modified food was vilified as "Frankenfood" in many global-reaching protests and boycotts. Today, one of the key target...

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