Thomas Kostigen, Huffington Post. October 3, 2008. We are facing crises of freshwater, food, deforestation, and ocean health. We need leadership in the protection of all our natural resources.
Emily Wilson, AlterNet. October 2, 2008. A growing interest in urban farming is sprouting all kinds of new ideas -- including growing food in high-rises.
Frances Moore Lappe, Huffington Post. August 18, 2008. Morning Edition's recent series on the food crisis reinforces dangerous myths that actually block us from seeing the real solutions to hunger.
Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally. August 13, 2008. A handful of Times writers seem to be intent on undoing all the strides Americans are making to live greener.
George Naylor, Irene Lin, AlterNet. August 7, 2008. Ethanol critics need to be wary before they jump aboard the anti-ethanol campaigns and let off the hook the real bad actors behind our food crisis.
Jill Richardson, AlterNet. August 7, 2008. Imported foods found with unacceptable pesticide levels have drawn attention to the USDA's shoddy certification process.
Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom. July 28, 2008. Sarah Katherine Lewis' new book connects the dots between food, sex, and our relationships with our bodies.
Ruben Anderson, The Tyee. July 17, 2008. Composting is key to reducing waste costs, cutting global warming emissions, and increasing urban food security.
Gavan McCormack, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 15, 2008. "Through the prism of beef, South Koreans confront the limitations of key contemporary institutions: democracy, capitalism, and nationalism."
Kate Cheney Davidson, Yale Environment 360. July 8, 2008. Michael Pollan talks about biofuels and the food crisis, the glories of grass-fed beef, and how environmentalists should think about sustainability.
Stan Cox, AlterNet. June 23, 2008. The corporate agriculture industry would like nothing better than to see us spend all of our free time in our gardens and not in political dissent.
Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch. June 13, 2008. Lab animals fed irradiated food have developed illnesses from cancer to immune system failure. So why is the government pushing the same food on you?
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. June 12, 2008. Fair trade might now be necessary not only as a means of redistributing income, but also to feed the world.
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. June 9, 2008. In the discussion of the global food emergency, one underlying factor is barely mentioned: The world is running out of freshwater.
Will Allen, AlterNet. June 6, 2008. The question about the real price of food should be rephrased: Is it worth sending cheap, poisonous food to the starving masses?
Raj Patel, Melville House Publishing. June 2, 2008. Hunger and obesity stem from the same problem -- the corporations that sell our food determine what we eat and how we think about food.
Stan Cox, Pluto Press. May 28, 2008. Our obsession with dieting, including the low-carb Atkins fad, may be good for our economy but it's a nightmare for the environment and our health.
Katherine Ozer, AlterNet. May 21, 2008. The Bush Administration is virtually silent on the real bad actors contributing to our broken industrial food system.
