AltWeeklies Wire
Wild Salmon Supporters Urge You to Boycott Farmed Fishnew
At SalmonAid, a gathering to eulogize the disappearance of Pacific Salmon, supporters hope to change people's consumption habits.
East Bay Express |
Alastair Bland |
05-28-2008 |
Food+Drink
Bicycles Provide Rwandans with Transportation to Move Harvestsnew
In Rwanda, the bike is much more than just a means of transportation: It is a way out and a way up. Up from the wreckage of a horrific genocide, out from the debilitating poverty that consistently ranks Rwanda among the poorest countries in the world.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Jacob Seigel-Boettner |
05-12-2008 |
International
The Best Way to Help Animals May Be to Eat Themnew
Why compassionate carnivorism just might work better than going vegetarian.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
05-08-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Perfect Food Shortagenew
With the United Nations aboard the local/organic bandwagon, global agriculture and distribution systems may get an assist in a more sustainable direction.
San Antonio Current |
Ari LeVaux |
05-07-2008 |
Food+Drink
A Pasadena Family Turns its Backyard into an Urban Homesteadnew
Melting ice caps, unchecked global oil consumption, mind-boggling volumes of trash accumulating in landfills -- the problems facing our planet are so big, it's tempting to tune them out. But when you talk to the Dervaes family, the founders of a home-based sustainable living resource center in Pasadena called Path to Freedom, it's the smallness of things you walk away thinking about.
Pasadena Weekly |
April Caires |
04-28-2008 |
Environment
North Carolina Students Advocate for Migrant Workersnew
Activists are working on migrants' behalf -- in the fields and at the statehouse.
INDY Week |
Mosi Secret |
08-17-2007 |
Business & Labor
Offbeat Offsetnew
What the hell is carbon farming, and how can it help stop global warming?
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
05-18-2007 |
Environment
Wrestling with Mud Seasonnew
Chef Boy Ari plants a few seeds for after mud season.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
03-15-2007 |
Food+Drink
Touring Monsanto's Secret GMO Farmnew
Monsanto is one of the world's most powerful producers of Genetically Modified foods. At a tour of one of its Hawaii seed farms, friendly company officials and scientists offer rhetoric that doesn't come close to matching reality.
Environmental Watchdogs Withdraw While Farms Pollutenew
The issuance of pollution-prevention orders to Fraser Valley farmers has declined drastically since staff was reduced in British Columbia's Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection. The results are toxic.
The Georgia Straight |
Ben Parfitt |
12-14-2004 |
Environment
The Gods Must Be Crazynew
Bush won because desert farming always creates wrathful religions.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-11-2004 |
Politics
Greens Are More Diverse Than the Average Lettuce Eater Knowsnew
Some of the most delicate baby greens -- whose unparalleled flavor is heightened by just a splash of vinaigrette -- can become chest-beatingly assertive when allowed to mature.
Monterey County Weekly |
Catherine Coburn |
08-07-2004 |
Food+Drink
