The New York Times
By Sabrina Tavernise
Credit: Franzfoto WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday put in place a major new policy to phase out the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cows, pigs and chickens raised for meat, a practice [continue reading]
Archive for Politics and the Economy
FDA Restricts Antibiotics Use for Livestock
Dec
12
2013
Now This Is Natural Food
Dec
6
2013
New York Times
By Mark Bittman
Wes Jackson
A few weeks ago at the annual Prairie Festival in Salina, Kan. — a celebration, essentially, of true sustainability — I sat down with Wes Jackson to drink rich beer and eat [continue reading]
By Mark Bittman
Wes Jackson
A few weeks ago at the annual Prairie Festival in Salina, Kan. — a celebration, essentially, of true sustainability — I sat down with Wes Jackson to drink rich beer and eat [continue reading]
Recycling activists Donna Gibson and Michael Superson reduce waste by changing behavior
Dec
4
2013
Daily Hampshire Gazette, December 4, 2013. By Gena Mangiaratti
Environmental activist Donna Gibson finds it hard to change people’s behavior.
This is why in the late 1980s she came up with the idea for a “commercial break” at a spring Town Meeting to educate as many of her fellow Williamsburg residents as [continue reading]
Environmental activist Donna Gibson finds it hard to change people’s behavior.
This is why in the late 1980s she came up with the idea for a “commercial break” at a spring Town Meeting to educate as many of her fellow Williamsburg residents as [continue reading]
creative currency
Nov
26
2013
tools for a new economy. creative-currency.org/
Creative Currency is an initiative bringing together leading developers and designers with national experts in social finance, local currencies, crowdfunding, sharing platforms, and other leaders of the new economy to envision, prototype, and deploy innovative solutions that reimagine our systems of exchange from the ground up.
Focusing [continue reading]
Creative Currency is an initiative bringing together leading developers and designers with national experts in social finance, local currencies, crowdfunding, sharing platforms, and other leaders of the new economy to envision, prototype, and deploy innovative solutions that reimagine our systems of exchange from the ground up.
Focusing [continue reading]
Growth Patterns in the U.S. Organic Industry
Nov
5
2013
USDA
Catherine Greene
U.S. consumer demand for organically produced goods has grown continuously since USDA established national standards for organic production and processing in 2002. And, while Americans economized on their food purchases during the 2007-09 recession, including purchases of organic products, growth in demand for [continue reading]
Catherine Greene
U.S. consumer demand for organically produced goods has grown continuously since USDA established national standards for organic production and processing in 2002. And, while Americans economized on their food purchases during the 2007-09 recession, including purchases of organic products, growth in demand for [continue reading]
Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies
Nov
4
2013
New York Times
By Justin Gillis
Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found.
In [continue reading]
By Justin Gillis
Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found.
In [continue reading]
CISA’s web tool helps local food buying add up
Oct
24
2013
The Recorder, October 24, 2013. By Richie Davis
Who says you shouldn’t play with your food? Not CISA, the Deerfield based nonprofit that tries to get people in the Pioneer Valley to eat more local farm products. To encourage local voracious habits in its 20th anniversary year, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture [continue reading]
Who says you shouldn’t play with your food? Not CISA, the Deerfield based nonprofit that tries to get people in the Pioneer Valley to eat more local farm products. To encourage local voracious habits in its 20th anniversary year, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture [continue reading]
The Cultivator – Fall 2013
Oct
4
2013
The fall issue of Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter is now available online. Download it in PDF form: Cultivator Fall 2013
In it you’ll find:
Cover story: Food Safety: One Size Does Not Fit All!
Editorial: The Ethics of Human Testing to Prove Harm Preview: Fall National Organic Standards [continue reading]
In it you’ll find:
Cover story: Food Safety: One Size Does Not Fit All!
Editorial: The Ethics of Human Testing to Prove Harm Preview: Fall National Organic Standards [continue reading]
two row wampum renewal campaign
Oct
2
2013
Democracy Now! Interviews Onondaga Leader Oren Lyons, Pete Seeger On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, a partnership between the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON), is developing a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and their allies in New York and throughout [continue reading]
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