Farming

Moving the Needle Forward on Animal Welfare, Food Safety, and the Environment: Vote YES on Prop 2

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Farming, Animal Cruelty, California Proposition 2, Factory Farming, California Propositions, Proposition 2, Prop 2, Animals, Politics News
Kathy Freston

If the measure passes, factory farms in the largest animal production state in the country would have until 2015 to change their ways.

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Responding to Famine in the Horn of Africa: Learn from Past Mistakes

Gary Paul Nabhan | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, Humanitarian, Nikolay Vavilov, Minor Crops, Wheat Barley, Horn of Africa, United Nations, Aid, 700 Milion, Low Input, Teff, Drought, Fossil Fuel Based Fertilizer, Bailout, M, Climate Change, Famine, Crop Diversity, Environment, Food, Melaku Worede, Food Relief, John Holmes, Genetically Engineered Hybrid, Seeds of Survival, Ethiopa, Green News
Gary Paul Nabhan

The sad truth is that famines are shaped less by drought and more by inequitable political and economic access to seed diversity, technical assistance, and temporary food relief.

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No Cow Patties On The House...

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Matt Simmons, Wall Street, Bailout, Warren Buffet, David Chang, Farming, Cost of Food, Food, Green News
Kerry Trueman

If David Chang and Matt Simmons prove to be right, at least it may compel us to eat more fruits and veggies--and less meat.

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Pushing the Needle

Cynthia Torres | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Farming, Community Organizing, Fair Trade, Politics News
Cynthia Torres

Their tattered spiral covers showed the wear and tear of being stuffed into book bags, hauled from one meeting to the next in search of people and organizations willing to work together.

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DIY Environmentalism: The Green Guy Next Door

The Tyee | Colleen Kimmett | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Sustainability, Diy, Suburban, James Glave, Climate Change, Energy, Eco-Shed, Environment, Green News

If anxieties about flood and famine make you want to stake out a piece of land up Bella Coola way and hunker down with your veggie patch and marijuana...

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Our Next President Could Learn a Lot from Willie Nelson

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Farm Aid, Sustainable Food, Economy, John Mellencamp, Agriculture, Dave Matthews, Sustainability, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Local Farmers, Green News
Frances Moore Lappe

While we're told that big agribusiness will save us, it's a system centralizing their control of our food system that got us here.

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California Schemin'

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Farm Workers, United Farm Workers, Farming, The Humane Society, Factory Farming, Humane Society, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Prop 2, Animals, California, Humane Society of the United States, Proposition 2, Industrial Agriculture, Local Farmers, Living News
Michael Markarian

The nation's largest egg producer is also one of the dirtiest; It has been cited numerous times for spilling chicken manure and chicken parts into rivers and streams.

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Giving Up Meat One Day A Week Could Help Climate

TIME | Bryan Walsh | Posted 09.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Eating Matters, Politics of Food, Livestock, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change, Meat, Green News

Need another reason to feel guilty about feeding your children that Happy Meal -- aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking ...

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Permaculture: Homegrown Independence

Anthony Anderson | Posted 09.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Composting, Organic Farming, Locavore, Permaculture, Green Living, Fruit Trees, Suburbs, Farming, Sustainable Food, Sustainability, Green News
Anthony Anderson

Do we like the idea of independence, but how dependent are we on cheap oil, cheap and clean water, and food grown by strangers shipped from thousands of miles away?

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Is Going Local Going Too Far?

Laura Weiss | Posted 08.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Food, Long Island, Organic Food, New York, Locavore, Local Food, Green News
Laura Weiss

Why go to all this trouble when there are plenty of real farmers happy to grow your food -- and farm markets and CSAs for purchasing it?

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The Forgotten Extinction: Heritage Livestock

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Chickens, Rare Breed Livestock, Cows, Sustainable Food, Livestock, Going Green, Green, Conservation, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

Due to the assembly line style of meat production, the animals we eat have dwindled to a small number of industrial-strength breeds.

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Kangaroo Meat Better For Environment

Reuters | Michael Perry | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Kangaroo Meat, Kangaroo, Kangaroos Global Warming, Green News, Environment, Green, Sustainable Farming, Kangaroos Green, Meat, Green News

SYDNEY - Farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle in Australia could cut by almost a quarter the greenhouse gases produced by grazing livestock, ...

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Wind Power Town: Trimont, Minnesota Is Ahead Of The Curve

ABC News | Scott Mayerowitz | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Farming, Small Town Wind Power, Benefits of Wind Power, Green Energy, Trimont Wisconsin, Green News

Long before gas topped $4 a gallon or Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens embraced renewable energy, a group of farmers here banded together to build a mass...

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Cattails Could Be Agents Of Climate Change (The Good Kind)

AP | STEVE LAWRENCE | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Cattails, Crops and Climate, Farming, Carbon-Capture Farming, Reducing Carbon Dioxide, GHG, Greenhouse Gases, Green News

RIO VISTA, Calif. — On one side of the gravel road are hundreds of acres of corn. On the other is a different crop that scientists hope will ena...

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Eating Local or Not: It Depends

Graham Hill | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Local Produce, Organic Farming, Farming, Local Food, Organic Food, Grocery Stores, Vegetables, Food, Eating Locally, Life Cycle, Local Farmers, Green News
Graham Hill

The burning question: local vs. imported. When we want to make the best food decision what should we choose?

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Green Edge 3: Small Farmers, Ecofeminism, Vandana Shiva

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Organic World Congress, Organic Farming, Farming, Modena, Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminist, What Is Slow Food, Slow Food Organization, Food, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

Ecofeminist Vandana Shiva, monoculture with a masculine wish to dominate, is at the Organic World Congress to protest the human and environmental cost of industrial farming practices.

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Subsidies Adding to Food Crisis Woes

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Farming, Marc Kielburger, Subsidies, Food Crisis, Craig Kielburger, Japan, Home News

Japan is the place to be if you're looking for a real spa treatment. From daily massages and relaxing music to a diet of imported food and cold beer,...

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Big Private Investors Pouring Billions Into Farming

New York Times | DIANA B. HENRIQUES | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Farming, Food, Food Investors, Business News

Huge investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like wheat, corn and soybeans...

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Turkey Hollow Almanac: Summer Memories

David Mixner | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living

Read More: David Mixner's Weekly View of Country Life in Turkey Hollow, Turkey Hollow, New Jersey, Summer Nights, Buzzard Bait, Farming, Farm, Nature, Winter Storm, Porch, Family Farms, Local Farmers, Living News
David Mixner

As the first day of June arrives, the general consensus here in Turkey Hollow, is that May was one of the coldest in quite some time. So it is with arms open to the newly clear sunny sky that I welcome summer.

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Food, Fuel and Farming: the Sky's the Limit

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Green, Food, Farming, Urban Agriculture, Food Crisis, Carbon Footprint, Living News
Jacqueline Leo

Think of agriculture on the 34th floor of a big city skyscraper: the environment benefits, there's the "buy local" idea... the Flatiron building could be a farm stand on the corner of 22nd and Broadway.

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'The Harvest of Shame'

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corporate, Senate, Labor, Slavery, Fast Food, Farming, Harvest of Shame, Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, Farm Labor, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee Florida, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

The time is now that large corporations like Burger King and growers that profit from the near-slavery like conditions in the tomato fields of Florida begin to pay a price in the marketplace.

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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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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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Giving Afghans an Alternative

Polly McTaggart | Posted 12.06.2007 | Living

Read More: Microloans, Lack of Progress in Afghanistan, The Places in Between, Farming, Charity Organizations, Middle East Bombing, Greg Mortensen, Muslim Charity, Charity, Afghanistan, Afghan War, 9/11, Donating to Charity, Global Partnership for Afghanistan, Western Democracy, Afghanistan War, Rory Stewart, Robert Gates, Taliban Opium, Three Cups of Tea, Soviets Afghanistan, Micro-Finance, Make a Difference, Afghan Farmers, Afghan Produce, Afghan Taliban, Holiday Season, Holiday Gifts, Gift Giving, Gpfa, Living News
Polly McTaggart

After the Soviets' scorched earth practices deforested the country, the bombings following 9/11 and years of severe drought and strict Taliban rule, Afghans have become some of the poorest people in the world.

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