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I doubt that there are many of us who do not recognize the increasing influence of big business that has been creeping into the political process over the last decades. The most recent election was a free for all when it came to campaign contributions, and for many of these contributions we the public are
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You can let California’s Governor-Elect Jerry Brown know that you don’t want your strawberries sprayed with a known carcinogen and neurotoxin. There was public and scientific opposition to approving methyl iodide but lobbying and corporate interests won out over the health of strawberry consumers across the country (90% of all strawberries consumed in the U.S.
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Yesterday was the beginning of the Bioneers conference, which started with a few pre-conference intensives. I attended the farm tour and we began the day at the vibrant San Rafael Farmers Market. This farmers market is 27 years old and is one of eight markets that the Agricultural Institute of Marin operates. The Sunday San
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Just saw this wonderful five minute video of what is wrong, and also what is right about our food system at Civil eats (a great web site). What makes it even more extraordinary is that it is given by an eleven year old at a TEDx event. This is all so obvious that a child
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This Sunday is the Santa Fe Farmers Market 15th annual Farm Tour. Four farms that are members of the Santa Fe Farmers Market will open their gates for all of us to come for a visit. For most of the day you can drive through beautiful Northern New Mexico, between Santa Fe and Taos, visit
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If you have not seen the film No Impact Man and have channel Planet Green you are in luck. Saturday, August 28, at 10/9c pm No Impact Man will have its television premier. This is a great film and you can read about in another post. What I liked so much about the film is
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Commercial agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gases, as are most elements of the current food system in the U.S. today. Our food system just doesn’t work. Not for the small towns that have disappeared as farmers move away after losing their farms. Not for the soil that is being depleted and the topsoil
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A recent article on AOL discussed whether buying organic was really worthwhile. It also spoke of a back lash against organic as stories come out about companies being labeled organic that really are not, and also doubts if organic means healthier. I see shopping organic as an important aspect of living sustainably for what it
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Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution now has proof that good, “real”, food makes for healthier (did we even need to wonder?) kids and improved learning. Jamie Oliver’s work changing school lunches is nothing new for him. What he is attempting to do in W. Virginia he started in 2004 in England with his Feed Me Better program.
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There is a wonderful film called No Impact Man (and there is a book version as well) that came out fairly recently about a N.Y. city family that spends a year exploring what it means to live without making any impact on the earth. They went to an extreme that most of us would never