The latest government report on poverty suggesting that U.S. hunger problem lies at least partly in wages, not just an absence of work. This begs the question, how are these people surviving?
David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.
David Kirby | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
Though it would appear that people can infect pigs with H1N1, it is not clear whether live pigs can infect people. For now, officials are far more worried about the former than the latter.
AP | DAVE GRAM | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont slaughterhouse ordered closed Friday after video showed calves kicked, shocked and cut while conscious had its opera...
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.
Sarah Newman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
It's disappointing that the Obama Administration is not providing the visionary leadership on agriculture, like it is in some many other policy areas.
AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Nearly a dozen conservation groups are appealing to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to put a stop to two timber sales...
Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
After Tom Vilsack's speech, I've reached out to some key thinkers on agriculture to find out what they would like the USDA's new research body, NIFA, to be focusing on. Here are their answers.
Mike Callicrate | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
Most don't realize how dramatically food quality has declined under the industrial food system. They, too, often hide behind the false and misleading marketing provided by their food service company.
The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
DENVER -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday gave the strongest indication to date that the draft of Colorado's roadless rule, which all...
Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact
The Heritage Forests Campaign urges environmentalists to sign the following letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. It encourages his him to u...
Carl Pope | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
Vilsack acknowledged for the first time that climate change and fragmentation are a serious threat to the health of our forests.
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 09.11.2009 | Denver
VAIL -- A small but scary wildfire that broke out in the national forest above West Vail Friday afternoon perfectly underscored the ongoing debate bet...
Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
Africans can look to India to see what a future of relying on biotech seeds looks like. There, a depleted water table, poisoned waterways and farmer suicides have been the result of the first Green Revolution.
Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
For the first time, I can see that the fight for equitable food access is winnable.
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
This week, the Obama administration approved the sale of timber in a roadless national forest in Alaska. The Tongass National Forest is a 17 million a...
Carl Pope | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
We've spent $2 billion since 2000 without reducing the number of forest acres burned, homes destroyed, or firefighters killed. President Obama's new forest chief is badly needed.
Carl Pope | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green
It clear that the Obama administration doesn't intend to let business as usual at the Forest Service threaten our remaining pristine public forests.
Michael Pollan | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green
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.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green
Until we start celebrating earth with a small "e" everyday, all the compact fluorescent light bulbs and reusable shopping bags and hybrid cars and stainless steel water bottles in the world won't cut it.
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Comedy
It seems that the FDA done did it again! Or didn't do it... what they're supposed be doing, that is, mainly regulate and prevent widespread contamination of our food supply from harmful microbes and bacteria.
gourmet.com | Photograph by | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green
What a difference a few months make. Advocates of sustainable agriculture are now ecstatic about President Obama's decision to appoint Kathleen Merrig...
Paula Crossfield | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green
No, Gillibrand and Aubertine aren't lobbying for the Corn Refiners Association -- they are pushing for local food.
Michael Markarian | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
There's simply no good reason to legalize dove hunting. Doves are not overpopulated, they don't damage property or cause nuisance problems, and there's no management justification.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.18.2009 | Green
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.
Sarah Newman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact