Fortune Magazine's illustrator shows abandoned land in Detroit being converted into "cutting edge, city style farms. Solar panels and windmills power ...
David Becker | Posted 01.05.2010 | Green
Farming is hard work, yet the farmers I meet are some of the most satisfied people I know. Odd, because in my experience, running a small business can be stressful and not a whole lot of fun.
Kathy Freston | Posted 01.05.2010 | Books
So far, only thousands of people have died from swine flu. Unless we radically change the way chickens and pigs are raised for food, though, it may only be a matter of time before a catastrophic pandemic arises.
WebEcoist | Posted 12.31.2009 | Green
At one time, all farmers knew the easiest way to test and correct the pH of their farm's soil: they tasted it. While it's something of a lost art now,...
New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green
COPENHAGEN -- Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natu...
AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business
ST. LOUIS — Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing compet...
Elihu Dietz | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green
Meat is wasteful: it takes 10,000 pounds of grain to produce 1000 pounds of meat. But is abstaining from eating meat really the solution?
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
If you eat, you rely on farmers, but you also rely on the labor of 2.5 million farm workers in the United States who earn wages below the poverty limi...
nytimes.com | JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Plagued with inclement weather, disease and complications from both, farms throughout Connecticut, New Jersey and New York generally suffered one of t...
Mother Nature Network | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Like an agrarian Sims, FarmVille allows you to tend a virtual plot of land. You harvest your crops, save coins and then use those coins to purchase fa...
David Becker | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
Most farmers who work farmer's markets and farms stands are proud of what they produce. And many want to tell just how they do it.
causecast.org | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
With more than 4,800 farmers markets of various sizes already established in the U.S., there's a huge demand for dedicated individuals to make these e...
Posted 11.04.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer spoke with Ellen Degeneres today about his new book, Eating Animals, which uncovers the horrible world of factory farming. (Check...
Makenna Goodman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
I've been raising laying hens for about a year, and I've never been happier. I have fresh eggs whenever I want them and I've come to love chickens for all their neurotic, pecking glory.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...
thedailygreen.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
So, this year our predictions are that 2.223 million colonies (down from last year because of colony losses to colony collapse disorder and last year'...
Kathy Freston | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books
If ever there was a book that could profoundly affect our lives at the most fundamental level, this one is it.
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.
oregonlive.com | John Foyston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
The hops shortage of 2007 is over, buried in a glut of unsold hops. Don't expect craft beer prices to follow -- the $5 pint and $9 six-pack are likely...
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.
Louise McCready | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
While Food, Inc. uncovered the horrors of the industrial food system, Food Beware links pesticides and herbicides with cancer and other health problems.
Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.
Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.
David Becker | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
"President Obama has pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015." Talk about an ambitious goal!
Naomi Starkman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Much of Mildred Armstrong Kalish's outstanding book is devoted to entire chapters on how her family survived on a rural farm in record cold with no running water, no central heat, no electricity, and no money.
treehugger.com | Posted 01.06.2010 | Green