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For the last seven years, Rae Lynn Sandvig, a mother of four, has been helping a local dairy farmer distribute unpasteurized milk to 35 or 40 friends and neighbors in the Minneapolis suburbs. Then she got busted by the food police.
Supporters of school gardens were thrilled with a new report showing that Berkeley's gardening and cooking initiative made students more eager to eat vegetables and choose healthy food. But a closer look reveals that while fourth- and fifth-graders benefited, middle-schoolers actually regressed.
For all the good it's done, you'd think by now the Clean Air Act would get more respect. Yet, the act is once again under attack.
With apologies to another ancient Mediterranean civilization, is it useful — when in Greece – to do as the Greeks...
Representatives from 194 countries gather this week in Cancun, for the 16th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
What's happening in California's Westlands Water District provides a sneak peek at the problems that farmers all over the world will soon confront.
Now that the voting stuff is over, Washington gets down to its real business: Backroom power.
Cities in states across the union (including Texas) are enacting plastic bag bans. Only the "Save the Plastic Bag Coalition" stands in the way.
Proposition 23 proponents claim AB 32 will kill jobs and California should wait until unemployment rates drops to 5.5 percent. Is there truth to that?
