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Articles
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Ten Things You Should Know About Factory Farming
Factory farming grew out of both an insatiable desire for meat combined and the industrialization of the agriculture industry. Here's what you need to know.
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How to Reduce Your Red Meat Consumption
Put away your concerns about eating less red meat because there are alternatives that are healthier for both you and the environment.
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Truck Farm - The Newest Way to Garden in the City
Some creative gentlemen took an ordinary truck and planted a garden in the flatbed. Like a rock.
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Groceries are HOW MUCH? How to Eat Organic on the Cheap
Rather than rummage through your average grocery store, looking for organic options, I shop at Whole Foods. Think what you will of this all-natural chain – it..
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Seawater Holds Key To Future Food
Growing crops in salt water is becoming necessary to overcome shortages of fresh water, say researchers writing in the journal Science.
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Give One More Gift - To A Stranger
Just when you thought you were ready to check out of the holiday season, we're here to give you one last assignment. Send a card to a stranger.
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Top Green New Year Resolutions
Is it finally time to stop smoking, clean out your closets, or lose ten pounds? You can do all of those things while making positive environmental changes.
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Michelle Obama’s Agenda Includes Healthful Eating
Mrs. Obama was praising the menu last week at Miriam’s Kitchen, a nonprofit drop-in center serving this city’s homeless.
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New USDA Deputy Secretary: Too Organic or Just Right?
Newly appointed Deputy Secretary of the USDA, Kathleen Merrigan, helped develop rules for labeling organic foods as head of the Agricultural Marketing Service.
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Going meatless is the new black. Er, green. As such, here are some tips to help you go meatless. Our environment, and potentially your body, will thank you.
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Is There Pressure to be Fat in America?
America is often accused of being fixated with the thin (and not necessarily fit). Is it possible that, at the same time, we are trying to plump up the public?
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Want to eat healthy and local and just don't know how to get started? Why not join a vegetable co-op? It's easy, relatively inexpensive, healthy and delicious!
Blog posts
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This year was my first Thanksgiving as a full on raw vegan! As the only raw foodist in my family, I made whipped "potatoes", mushroom gravy, lemon-garlic bisque, and cranberry relish. All raw vegan...
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Si Se Puede! Yes We Can! Cesar Chavez reminds us that “We don’t need perfect political systems, we need perfect participation.” Tuesday, March 31 marks Cesar Chavez Day. Cesar was a Mexican America...
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Our entrenched industrialized farming system needs to be reformed, both through combating inhumane and harmful practices, and through promoting better alternatives. I recently visited Michigan S...
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My Mom is an Eco-Conscious Warrior Queen
When I was a teenager, if you had told me that I'd be publicly praising my mom's thrifty ways and green thumb one day, I'd have poured my Diet Cherry Coke over your head and tossed the can in t...
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Eco Maniac: Planetary Pop Quiz
Everyone needs to watch Home. It’s possibly the most beautiful and important film you will ever see. Although it focuses on global climate change, it weaves the ideas of industry, agriculture, econ...
