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Do you have the balls to really change the food system?
You like nose-to-tail dinners and street-food festivals. Your bananas and coffee are Fair Trade, but everything else is Far From It. Sound familiar? A farmer and real-food activist lays out what you can do if you truly want to change things.
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Michelle Obama to Congress: Without school food reform, anti-obesity initiative may fail
Michelle Obama renews her call for Congress to pass the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act" touting an increase in funding. But it's about more than that -- the bill may finally get junk food out of schools.
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The right’s climate denialism is part of something much larger
Denialism has come roaring back -- like everything reactionary -- with the economic downturn. What should we make of Rush Limbaugh's army of deniers?
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Florida governor’s race: Sink vs. Scott
Florida's governor race pits Alex Sink (D), a former banking executive comfortable talking energy efficiency and cleantech business plans, against Rick Scott (R), a largely unknown hospital-chain owner who supports offshore drilling but hasn't made his positions clear on many other green issues. For a state that's failed to live up to its clean-energy potential -- and a state uniquely vulnerable to climate change -- the differences are significant.
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BP report makes you wonder: This is 'safety first'?
Reaction to BP's report from its internal investigation of the Gulf explosion has been almost all negative.
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Is PETA Butter full of … vegans?
If peanut butter is chock full of peanuts, and PETA is chock full of vegans, then the only logical conclusion is that PETA Butter is chock full of vegans, no?
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Searching for eggs in all the right places
It's like Easter in September on my farm, where "free range" seems to mean "free to lay your eggs anywhere but in your nice, spacious coop."
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Coal Ash, A Rancher's View
The Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of a series of public hearings at sites around the country to gather input on new protections from toxic coal ash. This week’s blog post comes from Sierra Club Apprentice Jenny Kordick. — After watching a deer refuse to drink water from a reservoir on a hot […]
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Urban design lessons from the world's poorest neighborhoods
Pavlina Ilieva and Kuo Pao Lian aren't out to sugarcoat slums. But they suggest that those who live in the most privileged enclaves could learn a lot.
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Carly Fiorina was for climate and energy legislation before she was against it
Last week, Carly Fiorina waffled on whether she supported the landmark climate and clean energy legislation that Prop 23 would kill, since, she supported cap-and-trade during the presidential campaign. Now the GOP Senate candidate has completed her flip-flop to full support for the dirty energy proposition funded by Big Oil.
