Jill Richardson, Commonweal Institute. November 25, 2009. Obama's statements about food and agriculture trend moderate to progressive, but his nominations for top positions in his administration tell a different story.
Robyn O'Brien, AlterNet. November 19, 2009. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers and allergies. We need a new food system.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. November 19, 2009. The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 18, 2009. You don't need a red barn and rolling wheat fields. Urbanites, too, can grow their own food indoors, in cramped spaces, and without access to land! For real.
AlterNetNovember 9, 2009. Pollan took on Big Ag and cheap food in a panel discussion, after the protests of a meat industry chairman led to his speech at a University being canceled.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 6, 2009. Bees teach us how to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us, we leave the world better than we found it.
R.J. Ruppenthal, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 23, 2009. What if each of us could produce just 10 percent of our own food at home? What a huge difference that would make.
Richard Wiswall, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 22, 2009. Contrary to what most people believe, a good living can be made on an organic farm, and what's required is farming smarter, not harder.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. September 15, 2009. Not only do bumblebees pollinate about 15 percent of our food crops (valued at $3 billion), they also occupy a critical role as native pollinators.
Michael Pollan, The Nation. September 10, 2009. Wendell Berry's now-famous formulation, "eating is an agricultural act" -- is perhaps his signal contribution to the rethinking of food and farming under way today.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 28, 2009. Were we traumatized? Did we feel sorry for the chicken? Are we dreading this weekend, where we'll have to kill 150 more? Here's why not.
Lester R. Brown, TreeHugger. August 28, 2009. How China ended its dependence on food aid, almost overnight, and become the world's third largest food aid donor.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. August 27, 2009. Exaggerating the role that water plays in unemployment will do little to improve farm jobs and much to hurt rational water policy in the region.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 21, 2009. In this economic climate, why is farming becoming a desirable life for young people who have the luxury of choice?
Jill Richardson, Ig Publishing. August 18, 2009. Was Whole Foods truly sustainable, or was it just a high-priced version of the same food one could find in a conventional supermarket?
Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. July 22, 2009. Despite what the food pyramid says, we don't need milk after we're babies. Maybe it's time to wean ourselves from cows and grow up.
Beau Friedlander, Air America Media AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2009. While the bill is weak medicine for a very sick planet, it’s a whole lot better than taking the poor orb behind the Milky Way and shooting it.
Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. June 20, 2009. As California and Australia are finding out, what makes economic sense to farmers may be becoming an environmental problem.
Robin Marantz Henig, OnEarth Magazine. June 19, 2009. Scientists are closing in on an inescapable conclusion: Pesticides may be a cause of Parkinson's disease.
