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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.
Maui Time  |  Anthony Pignataro  |  06-24-2005  |  Science

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

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