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Toxic Waters
The New York Times series about the worsening pollution in American waters and regulators' response.
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Documentary Film: FRESH
FRESH is more than a movie, it’s a gateway to action. The aim is to help grow FRESH food, ideas, and become active participant in an exciting, vibrant, and fast-growing movement. - FRESH
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Why being a locavore is not necessarily more efficent than the alternatives.
Eating only locally grown foods ignores crucial facts about food miles and production techniques that contribute to one's carbon footprint. In short, locally produced doesn't mean a smaller carbon footprint.
www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0803/opinions-energy-...
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Category Discussion: Local Food & Agriculture
Local food and agriculture help communities become more self-sufficient and less reliant on food transported great distances using fossil fuels. Local food is also fresher, often has more nutrients, and requires less packaging and refrigeration than food that must be shipped long distances. Local food purchases also recirculate money back into the regional economy, as farmers' market revenues are typically re-spent locally. Finally--not to beat a dead horse--local food resources provide resilience for cities in the face of potential fuel shortages or truckers' strikes.
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Is Obama's Plan for Tackling Hunger Just Another Chance for Big Ag and Biotech to Cash In?
There's good reason to fear that Obama's new global food security effort may do more harm than good for the world's hungry.
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Oregon Legalizes Hemp Production
Hemp is one step closer to becoming a legal crop in the United States.
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Agroforestry Found On Nearly Half The World's Farms
For centuries, farmers have placed trees among their crops to enhance soil health, raise marketable fruits or nuts, and protect row crops from damaging winds.
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New Site That Lets You Save Money and Get Rid of That Extra Broccoli
This new site not only provides a way to swap food, but is becoming a social networking hot spot for foodies.
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The Homestead: DIY Green Manure for Garden Soil Enhancement
Fall has arrived on The Homestead. There are beautiful fall colors, cool temperatures, pumpkins, squash, gourds; and for those of us in the U.S., Halloween!
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Asian Water Supplies Require Substantial Overhaul
Asian countries urgently need to boost farmland productivity and use water more efficiently or the continent may not have enough water to support the agricultural needs of its growing populations, an Asian Development Bank-supported study found.
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