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May 9, 2012

Fertilizer from Food Waste: PCC Tests ‘Full Circle’ System With Local Firm

PCC Natural Markets is unveiling a new alternative for dealing with food waste — a “harvester” system developed by Issaquah-based WISErg to produce liquid fertilizer. ...

May 9, 2012

Feeding the Future: Sustainable Solutions for Food Security

Stakeholderforum.org by Jim Kitchen, Green Ambassador and Project Manager, Soil Association, Northern Ireland Organic and other agro-ecological farming systems can help the world feed itself, ...

May 7, 2012

Sustainable Agriculture Heats Up

Sustainable Business Oregon By Christina Williams Oregon has long been on the forefront of the local food movement but what started as a trend on ...

May 7, 2012

Time to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Industrial Agriculture?

Mother Jones by Tom Philpott Like a good buffet, Nature’s recent meta-analysis comparing the productivity of industrial and organic agriculture offered something for every taste. ...

May 4, 2012

Organic Market Keeps Growing Through Recession

Capital Press (link no longer available) By Steve Brown Organic sales are up in Washington state, but the number of acres grown organically is shrinking, ...

May 4, 2012

Order a Filet Mignon at a Restaurant and it Could be Glued Meat

Digital Journal by Joan Firstenberg Move over Pink Slime, now there’s Meat Glue. Restaurants and fancy chefs know it as transglutaminase, an enzyme that permanently ...

May 3, 2012

State-Of-The-Art Farming

Great Valley Site Embraces Organics, Technology The Post-Journal (Jamestown, NY) By Remington Whitcomb Copyright (c) 123RF Stock Photos Last time you were in the grocery ...

May 3, 2012

Food for Thought: An Interview with Anna Lappé

The Indypendent By John Tarleton Agriculture can be part of what protects us” from climate change, says Anna Lappé. She should know. Daughter of Frances ...

May 2, 2012

California GMO Labeling Initiative Headed for Ballot

Right to Know Campaign Turns in Nearly One Million Signatures California Right to Know Campaign SAN FRANCISCO — In victory rallies across state today, supporters ...

May 2, 2012

Public Research, Private Gain

Corporate Influence Over University Agriculture Food and Water Watch Since their creation in 1862, land-grant universities have revolutionized American agriculture. These public institutions delivered better ...

May 1, 2012

Exposures to Pesticide in Utero Linked to Brain Abnormalities

San Francisco Chronicle (link no longer available) Nicole Ostrow April 30 (Bloomberg) — Babies exposed in the womb to a commonly used insecticide have brain ...

April 30, 2012

Drawing on the Past for Organic Grains

Scientists are looking to the past as they research methods and varieties for improving the viability of organic grain production for Northwest growers. Western Farm ...