Sustainable Agriculture

City of Big Shoulders and Green Thumbs

Neil Wagner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Urban Agriculture, Global Warming, Chicago, Vertical Farming, Agriculture, Green News

A former meat packing plant, once part of Chicago's legendary Union Stockyards, is trading in its stun line for a stunning new line of thinking.

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Conservation Lessons of the Dust Bowl

Mark Tercek | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Green News, Farming, Farm Bill, Sustainable Agriculture, Conservation, Dust Bowl, Mark Tercek, Green News

It marked the peak of the American Dust Bowl, a nine-year period that destroyed farmlands, blackened skies and left millions homeless.

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New App Answers: What's in Season Near You?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Nrdc, Eat Local, Local Food, Farmers Markets, Sustainable Agriculture, Seasonal Produce, iPhone Apps, Organic, Green News

Asparagus, dandelion greens, rhubarb. It's late April and this is what's in season near me. How do I know this? As is increasingly the case, there is an app for that.

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Farmers' Markets Move Online

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Sustainable Living, Green Bean Delivery, Farmers Markets, Foothills Connect, Sustainable Food, Local Food, Ecotrust, Csas, Sustainable Agriculture, YES! Magazine, Timothy Will, Arganica, Rutherfordton, Foodhub, Food News

Smart use of the Web can shift the focus of food retail away from industrial suppliers and toward those in the position to offer on-demand delivery of the freshest food around.

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Feeding the World Through Smarter Agriculture

Mark Tercek | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Farming, The Nature Conservancy, Mississippi River, Green News, Cargill, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Conservation, Fortune Brainstorm Green, Mark Tercek, Food Security, Impact News

How can we meet the world's increasing demands for food, water and energy without degrading the natural systems we depend on for survival?

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Coffee: What Do Different Sustainable Coffee Certifications Mean?

Mark Hostetler | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Starbucks Coffee, Green Living, Coffee, Fair Trade Coffee, Biodiversity, Green News

There are several "sustainable" certification labels that appear on coffee. I love coffee, but what do all those environmental coffee labels mean? Is one certification better than the other?

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The Top 10 Green Dining & Drinking Destinations In New York City

Michael P. Owens | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Sustainable Living, Earth Week, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Green Week, Sustainable Buildings, Sustainable Food, Sustainable, Home News

I spent the past month researching and visiting venues that embrace sustainability as a core value of their business. A few thousands calories later (and one small hangover), I am happy to share my findings with you.

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Four Ways The Farm Bill Can Make You Crazy

Dan Imhoff | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, 2012 Farm Bill, Farms, Farm Bill, Agricultural Policy, Agriculture, Food News

A rational, coherent blueprint for a healthy national food supply might be too much to ask. But after years of studying the Farm Bill, I'd be thrilled to see a dent made in four of its most glaring conflicts of purpose.

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Is The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen A Model of Sustainability?

Food & Wine | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Suzanne Collins, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Books, Food Politics, HUnger Games, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Sustainability, Movies, Suzanne Collins the Hunger Games, Sustainable, Katniss Everdeen, Katniss Everdeen Sustainability, The Hunger Games Sustainability, The Hunger Games, Food News

From a food-world perspective, the message of the story is almost as exciting as Katniss's big screen quest to make it through the deadly arena with her humanity (and head!) intact.

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A Model Farmer: Fashion to Farming

Leona Palmer | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Models, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Fashion, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Mindfulness, Life Changes, Life Lessons, Emotional Wellness, CSA Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA Farm, Healthy Living News

I once heard that humans seek out natural environments because nature is not in resistance to itself. Having finally accepted the truth that my father is gone, I am surrendering my resistance as well.

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Growth With Resilience: An Opportunity for African Agriculture

Professor Sir Gordon Conway | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: G20 Summit, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Economic Development, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Agribusiness, Growth, g20, Business News

Many African countries are growing fast. African GDP is growing at about 6% per year and over the past decade, 6 of the world's 10 fastest grow¬ing countries were African. But this growth remains fragile.

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Organic Milk: Are You Getting What You Pay for?

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Gmos, Gm, Sustainable Food, Milk, Sustainable Agriculture, Nop, Organic, National Organic Program, Office of Inspector General, Sustainable, Genetically Modified Crops, Dairy Products, Organic Food, Animal Welfare, Animal Welfare Approved, Genetically Modified Food, Food News

At a time when consumers are turning their backs on industrialized farming systems -- and genetically modified (GM) farming in particular -- the new report raises real questions about exactly what people are paying for when they buy organic milk.

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Celebrating International Women's Day

Brooke Edwards | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Women, Self-Reliance, Self-Help, Agriculture, Video, Impact News

Gender equality is a fundamental 'cornerstone' of our work because we understand the extraordinary potential of women to change the circumstances of their own lives and their families' lives.

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Who Feeds the World? (Girls)

Professor Sir Gordon Conway | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Women's Empowerment, Women, Sustainable Agriculture, Agriculture, Business News

So how can we ensure that Africa's agricultural science and research is really focused on the needs of those who feed the world?

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The State of Sustainability in America -- Experts Weigh In...

Michael P. Owens | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Sustainable Living, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Energy, Green News

I asked top green business executives, experts and political leaders, who are speaking at the 2012 Sustainable Operations Summit in NYC, what they think is most encouraging as well as what they think is most frustrating about the state of sustainability.

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Environmental Justice a Form of Social Justice

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Social Justice, Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Environment, Rick Santorum, Sustainable Agriculture, Environmental Sustainability, Global Warming, Santorum Obama, Rick Santorum Obama Theology, Rick Santorum Obama, Green News

A so-called "free-market" economic system lacking in environmental protections is tantamount to a social system deficient of civil and human rights protections for minoritized peoples.

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An Egg, Is an Egg, Is an Egg. Except It's Not.

Cara Rosaen | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Slow Food, Farming, Eat Local, Green Movement, Organic Food, Farms, Local Food, Organic Food Movement, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Organics, Real Time Farms, Sustainability, realtimefarms.com, Food News

We assume our food system has somehow taken care of itself. The aisles of perfectly aligned boxes, and perfectly stacked produce reflect a system where a tomato is a tomato is a tomato, or an egg is an egg is an egg. Food is a commodity and it's all the same. But it's not.

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Rust Belt Cities and the New Urban Agrarianism

Aaron Bartley | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Rust Belt, Urban Farming, Green News

De-industrialization and sprawl devastated America's manufacturing centers in the second half of the 20th century. That experience has made Rust Belt cities fertile ground for a new politics of community control and localized production.

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Prince Charles Calls for a Greener Food System

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Farming, Prince Charles, Economics, Sustainable Food, Water, Green News

Last May, Prince Charles gave a speech at the Future of Food Conference in which he outlined the social and environmental problems associated with industrial food systems and some pragmatic solutions to them.

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Small Walnut Farmers Cut Supply To Big Foods Company

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Small Business, Small Business Walnuts, Sustainable Food, Walnut Farmers, Agriculture, Small Business News and Trends, Walnuts, Sustainable Agriculture, Small Business News

(By Mihir Dalal and P.J. Huffstutter - Reuters) - Some California farmers plan to stop selling their walnuts to Diamond Foods Inc in the wake of an ac...

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Farmers Mount Risky Fight Against Fertilizer Companies

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Fertilizer, Farmers Fertilizer Protest, Farmers Fertilizer, Video, Fertilizer Prices, Farmers, Agriculture, Reuters, Sustainable Agriculture, Expensive Fertilizer, Food News

(Repeating from earlier) * Farmers put off fertilizer purchases due to high prices * Delays may lead to last-minute surg...

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Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation

David Weiss | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Kenya, Kenya Famine, Horn of Africa, Horn of Africa Famine, World News

Although the drought in the Horn of Africa has long since faded from the headlines, unless we continue to plan long term we may never be very far away from the next crisis.

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Towards a More Energy Efficient Food System

Kyle Rabin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Food System, Local Food, Kyle Rabin, Sustainable Agriculture, Scientific American, Industrial Agriculture, Food-Energy Nexus, Michael E. Webber, Green Agriculture, Food and Energy, Sustainable Food, Big Agriculture, Green News

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.

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Rio+20: The Future We Want Means Taking Action NOW

Kelly Rigg | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Climate Change, rioplus20, Sustainable Agriculture, Government Subsidies, Farm Subsidies, Oil Industry, Oil Subsidies, Green News

So here's my message to governments: What's taking you so long? By all means negotiate new targets and goals for 2020 or 2030, for example to improve energy efficiency and massively increase the share of renewable energy worldwide.

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Five Food Predictions for 2012

Andrew Stout | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Policy, Organic Food, Obesity, Food Politics, Food News

For every step forward, the good food movement continues to face unique challenges and unforeseen resistance from the industrial food complex. Here are a few food trends we can expect to see, hear, read or eat more of in 2012.

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