Climate Food and Agriculture
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Hitting the Big Apple's food-justice buffet
New York City is jam-packed with urban farms, community gardens, and food-justice projects. Not all of them are what they seem, I've discovered, but one has stolen my heart.
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A close encounter with China's sewer-oil trade
The Chinese diet uses tons upon tons of cooking oil every day. Some of it comes disgustingly from the waste stream. Here's how the government could flush the sewer-oil black market down the drain.
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Acknowledging women's role in the sustainable food movement
Women dominate the staffs of critical food- and farming-focused NGOs. They run farms, important blogs, and local-food restaurants. So why is Alice Waters the only one we ever hear about?
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New tool maps and grades 'food deserts' to lure supermarkets
The Reinvestment Fund's PolicyMap layers several types of demographic data to reveal which areas really lack access to food.
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Waiting for a hard frost
Reflections at the end of a Midwestern growing season.
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A buzzworthy new documentary
What's killing all the bees? Colony -- No Bees. No Honey. No Work. No Money. goes deep into the buzzing hive of the anxious beekeepers themselves to find out what they'll do if no one finds out the answer.
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The French serve up one helluva school lunch
France clearly represents the gold standard for school lunch programs, while it's unclear whether America can manage even the mildest reform of ours.
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The future of urban agriculture is not about the 10-mile diet
Urban agriculture is a movement in transition. Agriculture has a vital role to play in cities, but it must be done in a way that keeps the urban fabric intact.
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Americans hate feeding poor children at school
School food advocates -- myself included -- who would love nothing better than to see reheated chicken nuggets and tater tots replaced with fresh food cooked from scratch, need to wise up to the fact that most Americans just don't care.
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We agree: Oil companies should support Victory Gardens
A 1944 ad by the oil behemoth's old incarnation, Standard Oil of California, exhorts Americans to grow their own food -- and buy fertilizer to do so.
