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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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Food and Farming in Obama's First 100 Days

Michael Pollan | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, President Obama, Organic Food, Crop Subsidies, Sustainable Food, Tom Vilsack, White House Garden, Nutrition, Agriculture, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Obama's First 100 Days, Gardening, 100 Days, Green News
Michael Pollan

Perhaps the most encouraging action so far has come from the East Wing, where Michelle Obama has been speaking out about the importance of real, fresh food, home cooking and gardening.

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Does Your Food Need a Passport?

Sarah Newman | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Foodprint, Local Food, Carbon Emissions, Sustainable Food, Climate Change, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Sustainability, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Sarah Newman

Don't fret though because there are lots of simple things you can do to ensure you're eating plenty of safe, healthy, local fresh produce rather than unsafe, unsustainable international foods.

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Real Food Rehab: The Best Tasting Food On Earth

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Local Food, Sustainable Food, Health, Grocery Stores, Farmers Markets, Santa Monica Farmers Market, Local Farmers, Food Matters, Chicago Farmers Markets, Eating Locally, Food, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

Your local farmers' market is where you will find the most beautiful, wonderful tasting, alive, fresh foods you can possibly get your hands on.

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Sacred Bull

Tom Christopher | Posted 05.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Cows, Sustainable Food, Fossil Fuels, Carbon Footprint, Agriculture, Ontario, Vegetables, Green News
Tom Christopher

Transport in bulk by rail or ship is more energy efficient than moving foods in small quantities from farm to market by truck.

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Green News Report - April 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Pentagon, Iowa, Earth Day 2009, Congress, Chrysler, Sustainable Food, District of Columbia, Contaminated Water, Camp Lejeune, Green News Report, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Toxic Chemicals, U.S. Postal Service, Water, Electric Cars, Fish, Green News, Autism, Climate Legislation, Toxic Waste, Wind-Energy, Chicago Tribune, Grist, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...

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A Food Revolution in the Making, from Victory Gardens to the White House Lawn

Michael Pollan | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Local Food, White House Garden, Sustainable Food, In Defense of Food, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Gardening, Local Farmers, Victory Garden, Victory Gardens, Green News
Michael Pollan

If we want to make significant progress in reducing global warming we will need to wean the American food system off its heavy diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of solar energy.

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A Survival Guide to Eating Chicken you Can Feel Good About

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Chicken, Certified Humane, Sustainable Food, Livestock, Barefoot Contessa, Sustainable Agriculture, River Cottage Cookbook, Csa, Green Living, Green News
Jerusha Klemperer

Without getting into the gory details, industrially produced chickens lead a (how do I say this nicely?) less than charmed life. I outline your various options for how/where to get chicken you can feel good about.

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Using Markets to Make Fisheries Sustainable

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Cap and Trade, Markets, Environmental Policy, Tragedy of the Commons, ITQs, Sustainable Food, Fish, Sustainability, Sustainable Fishing, Individual Transferable Quotas, Fisheries, Seafood, Green News
Robert Stavins

What has long been considered the obvious answer to collapsing fisheries -- restrictions on fishing -- has been shown time and time again to be the wrong answer. The right answer is enlightened use of markets.

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It's Time to Take the Pharma Out of Farming

Steve Ells | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Food Matters, Politics of Food, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Farm Animals, Chipotle, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Animals, Meat, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Steve Ells

Antibiotic use is not a prerequisite to life on the farm, but rather a threat to life itself. Let's preserve these drugs for the sick animals and humans who need them.

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The Recession (R) Diet

Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 04.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Jamie Lee Curtis, Diets, Recession Diet, Jamie Lee Curtis Recession Diet, Celebrities Talk Politics, Politics of Food, Sustainable Food, Food, Eating, R Diet, White House Garden, Green News
Jamie Lee Curtis

This week was the first time I realized that the recession that we have all been getting used to has hit us all where we live -- in our stomachs.

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Green Fast Food: The Way To America's Heart Is Through Its Stomach

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Poll, Green Fast Food, Sustainable Food, Fast Food, Food, Green Living, Green News

One big turn-off about "green lifestyle" choices has always been that its advocates can come off as self-righteous. How easy is it to identify with so...

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Are Our Ideas About Sustainable Food Out of Date?

Scott Lachut | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Sustainable Food, Food, Green News
Scott Lachut

The key to creating a sustainable system may rely on our collective ability to accept a realistic solution as a opposed to a perfect one.

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Kathleen Merrigan, Vilsack's Number Two, Is A Sustainable Food Pro

gourmet.com | Photograph by | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Farming, Kathleen Merrigan, Eating Matters, Tom Vilsack, Sustainable Food, Food, Green News

What a difference a few months make. Advocates of sustainable agriculture are now ecstatic about President Obama's decision to appoint Kathleen Merrig...

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Shovel-Ready (Garden) Projects Abound

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: The Who Farm, Hunger, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Youth Programs, Garden-Raised Bounty, Community Gardens, Economic Stimulus, Eat the View, Usda, Urban Agriculture, Grub, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

As record numbers of Americans apply for food stamps and trickle into the nation's already-strapped food banks, it seems like community gardens should be a high priority.

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American Cheese Mongers: the New Curds on the Block

Flora Lazar | Posted 02.27.2009 | Style

Read More: France, Bocuse D'Or, Slow Food, Sustainable Food, Paul Bocuse, Cheese, Sustainability, Herve Mons, Artisan Cheese, Murray's Cheese, French Cuisine, Wisconsin Cheese, Caseus, Daniel Boulud, New York Cheese, Jean Georges, French Laundry, Sirha, Thomas Keller, Food Matters, American Cheese, Eating Matters, Food, Style News
Flora Lazar

Time to show that the artisan cheese industry in the US is more than a lot of hot air from the Slow Food and sustainable agriculture movements.

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Even My Goose Supports Green Energy

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Geese, Sustainable Food, Going Green, Green, Sustainability, Green Energy, Happiness, Energy, Pets, Farm Animals, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Cfl, Animals, Sustainable, Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs, Compact Florescent Lightbulb, Cute Animals, Cfls, Lightbulbs, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

What the... something white, curly, and shiny was underneath my goose, Saro. It was a spiral of glass? Then I saw it. She was laying on a compact fluorescent light bulb.

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The Giving Garden

Bridget Mason and Kayomi Wada | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Helping the Needy, Children, Sustainable Food, Economy, Sustainable Agriculture, Community, Obama Service, Mlk, Mlk Day Service Day, Call to Service, Obama Call to Service, Giving Back to the Community, University of Washington Tacoma, Obama Canvassing, Farms, Volunteering, Kids, Service, Giving Back, Vegetables, Financial Crisis, Community Organizing, Poor, Gardening, Teaching, Learning, Volunteering for Obama, Farming, Community Service, Low-Income, Economic Crisis, War, Martin Luther King Jr., Science, Washington State, Barack Obama, MLK Day of Service, Harvesting, Helping the Poor, Tacoma, Organic Food, Martin Luther King, Fruit, Homelessness, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Mlk Day Community Service, Japanese, Donations, Gardens, Canvassing, Living News
Bridget Mason and Kayomi Wada

Judging by the almost 80 volunteers who came out to build a garden in Downtown Tacoma, I would have to say there are a lot of Americans out there just waiting for an opportunity to give back!

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Change We Can Believe In, or a Second Helping of the Same-Old?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Agenda, Obama, Usda, Tom Vilsack, Cafo, New Administration, Sustainable Food, Obama Inauguration, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Sustainable, Sustainability, Food, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News
Paula Crossfield

I hate to put a damper on your inaugural enthusiasm, but the time to act is now if we hope to at least have someone with an interest in building a better food system at the table.

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Heating Up the White House Kitchen

Tim Zagat | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Culinary, White House Food, Daniel Boulud, Sustainable Food, Martha Stewart, Danny Meyer, Americana, Obama Inauguration, Ralph Brennan, Alice Waters, Inauguration Food, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Colicchio, David Chang, White House Kitchen, Inaugural Food, Chefs, Lydia Bastianich, Michael Pollan, David Bouley, Rich Melman, Obama Food, Cooking, Inauguration, Sheila Lukins, Sustainability, Food, Inaugural Dinner, Style News
Tim Zagat

At a time when many Americans are overweight, the trim First Family should serve as models of healthy eating balanced with regular exercise.

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Ripe for Change?

Dan Imhoff | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Farm Bill, Wendell Berry, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Obama, Food Democracy, Sustainable, Sustainability, Green News
Dan Imhoff

People want our unhealthy food and agriculture system made healthy. And it doesn't look like we'll be giving up any time soon.

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Food Matters, and it Matters More Than Ever

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Sustainable Agriculture, Michael Pollan, Green Living, Sustainable Food, Locavore, Cooking, Sustainability, Green News
Graham Hill

Bittman's recipes are frequently 'flexitarian' -- that means they are good to make either with or without meat.

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This Year Make The Resolution To Start Your Urban Homestead

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Food, Farming, Green Living, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Going Green, Urban Homesteading, Growing Plants in the City, City Living, Sustainability, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

It feels good to get your fingernails dirty, even on the 34th floor, and you can finally start walking the walk so many of us have been talking.

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Eat More Lobster, Show Wall Street How to Save Businesses

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Sustainable Food, Wild Food, Business News
Steve Ettlinger

Sometimes -- even for an urban consumer -- hamburger and chicken is more expensive, on a per-pound basis, than lobster, and that's taking the shell into account, no less.

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Cruel Blow to Food Movement: Madoff's Ripple Effect

Tracie McMillan | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Food, Bernard Madoff, Sustainable Food, Urban Farming, Living News
Tracie McMillan

Food activists are likely mourning one of their own this morning: the Fair Food Foundation. The killer? Securities fraudster Bernard L. Madoff.

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