Climate Food and Agriculture
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Floating hydroponic farm makes food with zero waste
Here's an urban farm we'll still be able to use when rising sea levels flood all our cities! Science Barge is a floating organic farm set aboard a barge in the Hudson river.
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Green crush: Beets in Brooklyn
Author Anna Lappe expresses her love for Just Food in 17 syllables.
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Is it enough to tax junk food and subsidize good food?
The New York Times' Mark Bittman is right that we need to tax junk food and make healthy food more affordable. But we also need to quash junk-food advertising.
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Green crush: Two girls from Manhattan
How do you honor the two friends who made a movie showing the power of community to change the food system? A limerick, of course.
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Sea-urchin fishing, crab tacos, and the delicious rewards of hard work [VIDEO]
Why hand-picking your catch on a fishing trip is worth the extra effort, and what 20 years picking strawberries can teach you about empowerment.
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Viva veggies: In which I try tofustrami, and like it
The Humane Society wrote and offered to buy me a delicious vegetarian lunch. My general policy is to eat lunch when it's offered, so I took them up on it.
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In defense of organic
A "mythbusting" Scientific American blogger took on organic agriculture recently, but she got much of the story wrong. Grist sets her straight.
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Critical List: Operators say the grid can handle the heat; green tech investment down
Grid operators say they're ready to handle the extra load that air conditioners and other cooling devices will put on electricity supplies during the heat wave.
Venture capitalists invested less money on green tech projects last quarter; they're hot on "internet-specific" companies. (Think businesses like Twitter or Spotify.) So if you’ve got an internet-specific green startup idea burning a hole in your laptop cover, now may be the time.
Apparently it's cool with Republicans if the government interferes with private businesses' decisions, if those decisions would mean being involved in the E.U.'s airline carbon trading program. -
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Would the FDA let raw milk politics influence its food safety alerts?
The suspicious timing of a press release about tainted raw milk suggests the FDA hypes concerns over this product more than others.
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Our economy is hungry for food stamps
Food stamps do more than feed the needy-- they also boost a struggling economy.
