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EWG’s Answers to Chemical Agribusiness
Posted by Alex Formuzis in Pesticides on July 24, 2012 The Alliance for Food and Farming, an agribusiness group representing the bulk of conventional produce growers in California – and seemingly the...
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Will Congress Let Monsanto Write Its Own Rules?
The agricultural biotech industry — well, let’s call it what it really is: the chemical industry — has gone on the offensive as never before with a set of slippery policy riders to the House Farm...
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Honey Bee Toolkit
Create a bee haven. Talk to neighbors. Spread the word. Bees are in trouble. In the U.S., they’ve been dying off at alarming rates since 2006 and beekeepers continue to report staggering annual losses....
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Critics Raise Alarms Over Stanford Organics Study
Catherine Wellner of Care2.com When Alice’s adventures in Wonderland were growing increasingly strange, she described them as “curiouser and curiouser.” That may be the best line to describe the...
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Vote for the Dinner Party
From the New York Times October 10, 2012 By MICHAEL POLLAN One of the more interesting things we will learn on Nov. 6 is whether or not there is a “food movement” in America worthy of the name — that...
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Eat More Sustainably: A How-To Guide
Source: Living Green magazine By Melissa Valliant No one expects you to run your own farm and live off the land, but there are plenty of simple ways you can reduce the impact your food has on the...
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CT NOFA and Agroecology: Local action and global vision
From the Executive Director of CT NOFA, William Duesing Food is our most important connection with the Earth, after air and water. The essential question we need to ask is: “Will our connection to the...
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Sediment Study Shows More Soil Conservation Needed
Posted by Andrew Hug in Conservation on January 24, 2013 Faster is better, right? So is it a good thing that it now takes only 59 days for an Iowa lake to undergo a change that once took 631 days? No....
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New science: “Pesticide soup” scrambles bee brain function
Source: Pesticide Action Network Two new studies confirm that common pesticides are scrambling the circuits of bees’ brains. Researchers report that certain neonicotinoids and an organophosphate...
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Food, Farms, Forests and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
By Zack Kaldveer and Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association May 9, 2013 If ever there was a time for activist networks and the body politic to cooperate and unite forces, it’s now. Global...
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Lachat plan gets Weston P&Z approval
Source: The Weston Forum By Patricia Gay on February 27, 2014 A plan to create a community garden at the Lachat property on Godfrey Road West is a go. On Monday, Feb. 24, the Planning and Zoning...
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Back Door Farm Bill Amendment Orders EPA to Ignore Unsafe Levels of Fluoride...
Source: FluorideAlert.org With the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the Agriculture Act of 2014 (commonly known as the Farm Bill) yesterday, conventional farming allies and chemical...
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