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People’s Community Market finally secures West Oakland location
For over a decade, Brahm Ahamdi of the People’s Community Market has been attempting to create an oasis in West Oakland’s food dessert, which according to Ahmadi has not had a full service grocery...
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Grist Fellowship Program
Want to grow as a journalist while absorbing a universe of green knowledge? Apply for the Grist Fellowship Program. We are an independent nonprofit media organization that shapes the country’s...
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Advertise in the Eel
Unleashed across the capital once a quarter, The 'Eel is the best way for your business to increase its exposure to sustainably-minded citizens, who pick up the magazine from around 150 of London's...
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See below for our recent press releases. Please contact LWApress@riseup.net with any questions. We are always happy to help with stories, articles, films and interviews relating to our work. The...
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How access to clean water differs for families across the world
How access to clean water differs for families across the world How access to clean water differs for families across the world The global water crisis has greatly improved over the past 15 years, but...
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New Western Farmers Have Trouble Finding Water
Two years ago, in the middle of summer, the water was shut off on the 143-acre farm and ranch that Dustin Stein manages in Mancos, Colorado. As a farmer at the beginning of his career, Stein, who runs...
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Chicago H.S. Puts Twist on Farm-to-Table With Food Lab-to-Cafeteria Harvest
View Full Caption OLD IRVING PARK — Here's one way to get teens to step away from the Flamin' Hot Cheetos and opt for salad at lunchtime instead: Have the kids grow the green stuff that their school...
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Who’s watching the chickens?
In 2010, two producers recalled more than half a billion eggs after regulators traced an outbreak of salmonella to unsanitary conditions at two Iowa farms. It was the largest egg recall in history,...
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Who regulates your egg? Depends if it's in the shell.
No fewer than 15 different agencies oversee American food safety in one way or another, sometimes overlapping, and often strangely disconnected. How does it all fit together? That's beyond even most...
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Irish get diet-check from Food Safety Authority of Ireland
Just ahead of St. Patrick’s Day last week, the Irish learned their diets are not putting them at risk from chemicals. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) on March 15 published the results of a...
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What The US Can Learn From UK Supermarket Donating Unsold Food
One of the U.K.’s -- and the world’s -- biggest grocery store chains announced big news on the food waste front this month. In the coming months, Tesco, which boasts some 6,800 stores worldwide but is...
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The profound planetary consequences of eating less meat
This story has been updated. A striking new study — but one that is bound to prove controversial — has provided a calculation of both the health benefits and the reductions in planetary greenhouse...
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Other People’s Food: Part 1
The TV host and best-selling author discusses growing up on Army bases all over the world, her own time in the Air Force, and the foods she ate along the way -- from blood sausage to bibimbap to Spam....
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Ag groups pick up tab for water quality lawsuit defense
The Iowa Farm Bureau and other commodity groups are bankrolling legal expenses racked up in defense of a lawsuit filed by Des Moines Water Works over nitrate pollution in the Raccoon River, a Farm...
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Coal plants use as much water as 1 billion people and consumption set to...
Coal power plants use enough water to supply the needs of 1 billion people and that will almost double if all the world’s planned power plants come online. Almost half the new power plants will be...
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Deliberate act cannot be ruled out for Germany's 2011 outbreak
Yes, the German E. coli O104:H4 was a pathogen of a high virulence that suddenly emerged, and that might point to an unnatural phenomenon. But might it have been a deliberate act? Or some kind of...
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Is the USDA Just a Corporate Lobbyist Group?
Loading Please Wait | 9,468 views Please or to continue. By Dr. Mercola Many, if not most, of our regulatory agencies have a long history of protecting industry interests over public and environmental...
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Setting New Standards for Grassfed Dairy
When Stonyfield Farm introduced its newest yogurt line at the beginning of 2016, a new seal was stamped on the cups next to the familiar mark of USDA Organic certification. It showed two cows munching...
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If Olive Garden gives millions of meals to the needy, a waitress asks, why am...
Since 2003, the American “family style” restaurant chain Olive Garden has donated more than 28 million meals to local food banks across the US as part of its Fight Against Hunger campaign and what it...
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