Climate Food and Agriculture
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Can Oakland plant a policy revolution to match its grassroots efforts?
Unlike in Seattle or San Francisco, urban ag projects in Oakland have flourished through benign neglect.
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This Labor Day, will Trader Joe's finally do right by farmworkers?
Trader Joe's is among the most recent targets of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Campaign. But if Joe is feeling the heat, he ain't showing it.
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The environmentalist's paradox: we do better while the earth does worse
More people have more money, health, mobility, food, and security than ever before in human history. The natural world, however, is going to sh*t.
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New study weighs in on organic vs. conventional debate
Guess what? Organically grown strawberries are indeed healthier, tastier, and better for the soil than their conventional counterparts. Boo-yah!
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Help! I have vampires on the farm
This year's mosquitoes are sucking all the life out of summer on a farm in Nebraska.
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Avett Brothers play benefit show; give me excuse to write about them
Y'all know I love The Avett Brothers something fierce. It's rare that they wander into Grist's purview, so I don't usually get a chance to write about them. However! They recently played a benefit for Terra Nova Community Farm in Portland, Ore. That sounds like something our own Tom Philpott would love!
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After a half billion bad eggs get released, the FDA reveals filthy conditions of Wright County Egg
There's nothing like an egg salmonella outbreak to inspire FDA inspectors to deliver blunt, graphic reports from inside the industrial food system
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Smart cities are (un)paving the way for urban farmers and locavores
Across the U.S., cities are buckling up their green belts and introducing legislation to foster local-food production of everything from cucumbers to yellow limes, reports Kerry Trueman for Grist's Feeding the City series. Because nobody wants to get caught with their pantry down?
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D.C.’s first-ever state fair a hit — and so are my zucchini
Can a state that's not a state have a state fair? For too long, the nation's capital has been denied deep-fried Twinkies, Ferris wheels, and pie-eating contests.
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Grist deputy food editor lands insightful op-ed on salmonella scare
Why does Europe have fewer food scares than we do? Grist deputy food editor Bonnie Powell lays it out in a Reuters op-ed.
