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Jonathan Moscatello, The Food Alliance

Jonathan Moscatello is agriculture program manager of The Food Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting environmentally and socially responsible agriculture. Wednesday, 30 May 2001 PORTLAND, Ore PORTLAND, Ore. Hi, I’m Jonathan Moscatello, the agriculture program manager here at The Food Alliance. My day is typically filled with recruiting producers for the program and meeting […]

Dumb and Duma

Residents in Kariwa, Japan, who live near the world’s largest nuclear plant, voted on Sunday to reject plans to fuel the plant with recycled plutonium, known as MOX. Turnout was high, at 85 percent, and though the referendum was not legally binding, such a vote is rare in Japan and puts the government’s pro-MOX strategy […]

Sun City

A year ago, Los Angeles set out to become the “Solar Capital of the World,” announcing that 100,000 roofs in the city would be covered with solar panels by the end of the decade. The city said it would reimburse people for half the price of a new solar system, which can run from $10,000 […]

The Engine of Progress?

One-third of all new cars sold in Europe are diesel-powered, and analysts think the number will rise to at least 40 percent by 2005. Diesel engines can use 30 percent less fuel than gasoline ones, and they emit far less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In the U.S., meanwhile, less than 1 percent of […]