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Slow Fish on Martha's Vineyard: Uh, How Does That Work, Exactly?

Susie Middleton | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food, Sustainable Food, Menemsha, Oysters, Beef Recall, Obamas, Fisheries, Slow Fish, Martha's Vineyard, Green Living, Green News
Susie Middleton

Even if you only add one night of fish to your dinner repertoire each week, you're cutting down on your carbon footprint, adding beneficial Omega-3 fatty acids to your diet, and casting a vote against bad beef.

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Green News Report - August 13, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Town Hall Debate, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Sustainable Food, American Petroleum Institute, Department of Interior, Obama Administration, Sustainable Agriculture, Green News Report, Coal, Oil Companies, Mountaintop Removal, National Association of Manufacturers, Town Halls, Green News, Sustainability, Tomato-Blight, Buffer Zone, Astroturf, Tomatoes, Green Roofs, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Another win for coal companies; of green roofs & red tomatoes...PLUS: Town Hall Follies, now with Clean Coal!

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Wealthy Middle Eastern Countries Lease Lands Overseas To Secure Food

Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Farming, Natural Resources, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Qatar, Cairo, Middle East, Egypt, Water, Arab, Farmers, Food, Doha, Food Security, World News
Journalism Boot Camp

For Egypt and the rest of the Middle East, the future of food security will be dependent upon nations providing a clean supply of water for agricultural use.

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Who Owns Good Food?

Zachary Adam Cohen | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Food, Conservatives, Sustainable Food, George W. Bush, Food Politics, Progressives, Local Sustainable Food, Bipartisanship Sustainable Food, Green News
Zachary Adam Cohen

All Americans, regardless of political party, still eat thrice daily and because of our primal need for food, it remains an exalted subject that should be beyond mere partisan bickering.

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From Slow Food to Slow Living: The New Green Lifestyle Trend

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food, Green, Green Living, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Slow Food Movement, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

I was recently discussing what makes our personal lifestyles green, and came up with the term "Slow Living". Slow living is about living purposefully, consciously, thoughtfully.

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Pursuing Salmon: It's Gotta Be Wild

Neil Zevnik | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Salmon, Recipes, Sustainable Food, Cooking, Wild Salmon, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Sustainable Eating, Alaska Salmon, Fresh Food, Green News
Neil Zevnik

The omega-3 essential fatty acids make salmon one of the brightest of superstars in the food firmament, offering myriad health benefits to people young and old.

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Do We Even Know How to Grow Food Anymore?

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Local Food, Sustainable Food, Growing Food, Food, Gardening, Locavores, Green Food, Living News
Bernie Bulkin

We have completely changed the systems by which we provide ourselves with food, but we have hardly changed the systems of societal organization in response to this.

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This Week's Huge Flap About Organics

Marion Nestle | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Daily Express, Sustainability, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Organic, Nutrients, Green News
Marion Nestle

London's tabloid, the Daily Express, had a headline in type two inches high: "Organic Food No Healthier." This surprising statement is based on the conclusions of a report just released from the British Food Standards Agency.

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Organic Versus Conventional Food: UK Report Flawed

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Scientific Research, Food Standards Agency UK, Organic Food, United Kingdom, Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Sustainability, Conventional v. Organic, Food Politics, Food, Green News
Paula Crossfield

The attention-grabbing report ignored the 15 relevant studies that have come out since their February 2008 cut off date that could have changed the outcome of the report.

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To Market, To Market! Farmers Markets Should Make Some Noise During National Farmers Market Week

Stacy Miller | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, National Farmers Market Week, Sustainable Agriculture, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Local Farmers, Local Business, Farmers Markets, Green News
Stacy Miller

Next week, (August 2-8) is National Farmers Market Week as proclaimed by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and the nation's 4,800 farmers markets have a lot to celebrate!

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Where are the Conservatives in the Local, Sustainable Movement?

Zachary Adam Cohen | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Small Business, Local Food, Conservatives, Sustainable Food, Sustainability, Crunchy Cons, Locavores, Green Food, Green News
Zachary Adam Cohen

Conservatives value small businesses over corporations because they keep people empowered. The local and sustainable food movement elevates small farmers, artisans and restaurateurs, almost to a heroic level.

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Kid Rock's Badass Beer Fueled By Biodiesel

Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Kid Rock Badass Beer, Kid Rock Biodiesel, Biodiesel Beer, Sustainable Beer, Sustainable Food, Kid Rock, Green News

Last weekend Kid Rock launched his own brew, American Badass Beer, at two concerts he performed in Detroit. He's been working with the Michigan Brewin...

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Should Killing Lobsters In Boiling Water Be Outlawed? (VIDEO, POLL)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Poll, Killing Animals Humane, Animal Rights, Sustainable Food, Crustaceans, Animals, Lobster, Killing Lobsters Inhumane?, Shellfish, Lobsters, Politics of Food, Cooking, Food Politics, Humane Cooking, Food, How to Boil a Lobster, How to Kill a Lobster, How to Cook a Lobster, Green News

It's summer, and as many head to the beach with hopes of enjoying fresh seafood, the practice of killing live lobsters in boiling water is drawing new...

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That's Right Folks, Lunchables are Going Green.

Abby Caran | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Food, Kraft, Sustainable Food, The Green Revolution, Luncheables, Disposable, Going Green, Sustainability, Green News
Abby Caran

While the world seems to have embraced certain green ideals, it is still clinging hard to the idea of convenience above all else, and to disposability.

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Vote With Your Fork!

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Michael Pollan, Factory Farming, Food Inc., Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Farmers Markets, Food, Ecotherapy, Green News
Linda Buzzell

Every purchase of genuinely organic, local and/or sustainably grown food is a contribution to a grower who's doing the right thing

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The End of the Age of Oil: Will It Be a Soft or Hard Landing?

Anis Shivani | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Suburbs, Christopher Steiner, Crude Oil Prices, $20 Per Gallon, Sustainable Food, Peak Oil, Nuclear Power, Electric Cars, High Speed Rail, Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture, Airlines, Wal-Mart, Farming, Mass Transit, Alternative Energy, Green Living, Green Energy, Airline Industry, Infrastructure, Green Cars, Oil Prices, Better Place, James Howard Kunstler, Business News
Anis Shivani

Reading Steiner's $20 Per Gallon makes us realize how contingent our way of life is, and how uncertain its future prospects are.

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Women Can Plow Under A Global Hunger Crisis

Ritu Sharma | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Developing Countries, Women Farmers, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Gender, Third World Farming, World News
Ritu Sharma

This week, 4 million more people worldwide will go to bed hungry. Seven out of 10 of them are women.

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Sustainable Seafood and the City

Keith Wagstaff | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Sustainable Seafood, Sustainable Food, New York City, New York, Green News
Keith Wagstaff

If New York City's food culture is shifting, are sustainability practices shifting along with it? When diners read that Fishtail aims to be "the first sustainable seafood restaurant" on its website, do they even understand what that means?

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Pro Food: Slow Food with an Entrepreneurial Twist

Rob Smart | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Investments, Pro Food, Slow Food, Farms, Sustainable Food, Social Entrepreneurship, Cooking, Sustainable Agriculture, Retail, Eating, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Green News
Rob Smart

Pro Food stands apart in its efforts to revitalize the entrepreneurial side of the American food system, with the express purpose of reestablishing the link between food and source, bringing together eaters and farmers in new, innovative ways.

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Don't Have a Heart Attack, It's Meatless Monday

Ellen Kanner | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Vegetarian, Recipes, Sustainable Food, Vegetarian Cooking, Climate Change, Meatless Mondays, Global Warming, Health, Wellness, Food, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Going meatless is one-stop shopping, multitasking at its very best. It's green, as in environmentally responsible and also as in vital and alive.

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Loving the Ladies: More Female Farmers Sprout Up Nationwide

washingtonpost.com | Lori Aratani | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Small Farmers, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Women Farmers, Agriculture, Farmers, Food, Green News

While men tend to run larger farms focused on such commodity crops as soybeans and wheat, women tend to run smaller, more specialized enterprises sell...

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Branzini - The Greenest Fish You've Never Even Heard of

Graham Hill | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable-Fisheries, Sustainable Fishing, Marine Stewardship Council, Sustainable Food, Green News
Graham Hill

It's a green fish! Well, actually silver-colored and farmed, with a delicate taste, but it promotes much greener aquaculture methods.

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Closing the Farm to Plate Knowledge Gap

Rob Smart | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Food, Lobbyists, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Industrial Food System, Obesity, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Rob Smart

Consumer advocates for sustainable, healthy food are fighting with farmers, not because either picked a fight with the other, but because the knowledge gap between them has grown so expansive.

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Lawns Versus Gardens In Beverly Hills

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: La, Organic Farming, Farming, Sustainable Food, White House Garden, Michelle Obama, Sustainable Agriculture, Lawn, Beverly Hills, Gardening, White House Vegetable Garden, Victory Garden, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I have something in common with Michelle Obama, a brand new vegetable garden in my back yard. Mine was started by my 21 year old son, home from colle...

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Food, Inc.'s Robert Kenner Discusses What Gives Him Goosebumps, and What Gives Him Hope

Louise McCready | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Farming, Veggie Libel Laws, Industrial-Food-System, Robert Kenner, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Upton Sinclair, Fda, Obesity, Monsanto, Barack Obama, E. Coli, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Pollan, Obesity Epidemic, Joel Salatin, Sustainability, Food Safety, Eric Schlosser, Green News
Louise McCready

Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.

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