Meet Nancy Easton of Wellness in the Schools, Inspiring Healthy Eating
One of many critical tasks within the sustainable food movement is connecting children to healthy and sustainable food options and education. To learn more about the process of building sustainable...
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How Colorado is turning food waste into electricity
Americans throw away about a third of our available food. But what some see as trash, others are seeing as a business opportunity. A new facility known as the Heartland Biogas Project is taking wasted...
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Petition demands EPA revoke license for weed-killer ingredient
By Lydia Wheeler - More than 14,000 people have signed a petition that asks the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke the license for glyphosate — the active ingredient in Monsanto’s...
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High Five: NIFA Programs Help You to Know Your Farmer/Know Your Food
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) invests in agricultural research, education, and extension programs that take groundbreaking discoveries from...
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Oil Companies Donated To Clinton Foundation While Lobbying State Department
Faced with new questions last week about her cash haul from the oil and gas industry, Hillary Clinton and her campaign fended off the queries with a flat rejoinder: There is no explicit quid pro quo...
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Film captures how climate change threatens whaling, the lifeblood of Alaska...
At 320 miles above of the Artic Circle, Barrow, Alaska, is the northernmost town in the United States so it spends part of the year in the dark. In winter, the sun hides below the horizon for three...
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This Visionary is Helping Hospitals Take Food Seriously
Marydale DeBor loves her job. The pixie-sized woman, with a short crop of gray hair and funky glasses, runs Fresh Advantage, a consulting firm that helps hospitals and medical schools integrate...
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Big Seed: Consolidation Is Shrinking The Industry Even Further
Most food, if we trace it back far enough, began as a seed. And the business of supplying those seeds to farmers has been transformed over the past half century. Small-town companies have given way to...
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Wind and Solar Are Crushing Fossil Fuels
Wind and solar have grown seemingly unstoppable. While two years of crashing prices for oil, natural gas, and coal triggered dramatic downsizing in those industries, renewables have been thriving....
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Essay: At the White House garden with Michelle Obama, for the last time
I had a blissful experience last week, solo parenting with my 12-year-old daughter in California during spring break. I fell out of the news cycle entirely, free of any political sentiment. And when I...
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All-Natural But Still 'Imitation'? The Strange Case Of The Skim Milk Label
For three years, Mary Lou Wesselhoeft, a 61-year-old Florida Panhandle dairy farmer and grandmother to 14, had been selling milk at nearby farmers' markets and health food stores in an effort to keep...
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Share a short message that encourages school districts to participate in the Farm to School census! Are you a food service director or responsible for your school district’s food purchasing? If so,...
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5th Annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference
Slow Food San Francisco's Annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference is entering it's 5th year, and we are excited to look back at the progress we have made as a community as well as our goals for...
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School Fundraisers: Positive Changes in Foods Sold, but Room for Improvement...
This brief reviews the evidence on food-related fundraising in schools and changes to the school food environment over the past decade, providing new data from the Bridging the Gap (BTG) research...
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Patrick Holden Wants to Shine a Light on the True Cost of American Food
Patrick Holden has been talking about the “true cost” of food for years. And while he has engaged activists, scientists, and academics from all over the world in his role as director of the UK-based...
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How to Transform Your Roof into a Garden or Farm
When the black cherry trees start budding in New York City, I know it’s time to get back into the garden. Like any good green thumb, I organize my seeds and start my transplants. I look back on last...
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U.S. tally of organic producers grows 12 percent in a year
While a small fraction of U.S. agriculture, the number of certified organic operations is climbing at the fastest rate since 2008. The USDA says there are 21,781 organic operations, up 12 percent in a...
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States, federal agencies will seek removal of Klamath dams
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Oregon, California, the federal government and others have agreed to go forward with a plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest without approval from a...
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21 countries shrank their carbon pollution while growing their economies
There’s some handwringing even among skeptics who accept climate change is real and human-made that rising greenhouse gas emissions is the inevitable product of a growing economy. And for years, that...
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