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We are past "peak" soil.  It is the soil that feeds us and nurtures life.  Our current farming system is depleting the life from our soil. The time is now to take back our food system.  We are all "eaters". Sustainable living information is updated on this site daily. 
  
We are what we eat We are what we eat
Britons prefer Thai takeaway to fish and chips and want food produced locally, according to an unprecedented government report.
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Elitism in the Green Movement: Michael Pollan and Dan Barber Battle Critics Elitism in the Green Movement: Michael Pollan and Dan Barber Battle Critics
The discussion featured Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and the new book In Defense of Food, and Dan Barber, the James Beard Award-winning chef from Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester County, New York. It was moderated by the author of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Joan Dye Gussow, who is a nutritionist and professor emeritus at Columbia University Teacher's College.
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Whose harvest? The politics of organic seed certification Whose harvest? The politics of organic seed certification
Most of the world's organic farming is based on the wealth of seed diversity that farmers have created and sustained through generations of local seed exchange and improvement systems and traditional knowledge. But, today, new regulations governing seeds in organic farming, more attuned to the needs of seed corporations than seed savers, are popping up everywhere, with potentially devastating consequences for farmer seed systems.
 
http://globalpublicmedia.com/museletter_199_the_food_and_farming_transition The Food and Farming Transition
The only way to way avert a food crisis resulting from oil and natural gas price hikes and supply disruptions while also reversing agriculture's contribution to climate change is to proactively and methodically remove fossil fuels from the food system.
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Mitigating Climate Change through Organic Agriculture and Localized Food Systems Mitigating Climate Change through Organic Agriculture and Localized Food Systems
.Organic, sustainable agriculture that localize food systems has the potential to mitigate nearly thirty percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and save one-sixth of global energy use.
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How will we feed ourselves?

How will we feed ourselves?
What a fossil-fuel free agriculture might look like
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Eliot Coleman: Beyond Organic
Eliot Coleman: Beyond Organic
We now need to ask whether we want to be content with an "organic" food option that places the marketing concerns of corporate America ahead of nutrition, flavor and social benefits to consumers.
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Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Seeds of Destruction"(Book Review by Stephen Lendman) Reviewing F. William Engdahl's Seeds of Destruction (Book Review by Stephen Lendman)
Bill Engdahl is a leading researcher, economist and analyst of the New World Order who's written on issues of energy, politics and economics for over 30 years.
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Eliot Coleman: Beyond Organic Eliot Coleman: Beyond Organic
We now need to ask whether we want to be content with an "organic" food option that places the marketing concerns of corporate America ahead of nutrition, flavor and social benefits to consumers.
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Small farmers cry foul Small farmers cry foul Canadian
While Bourne’s property is two acres, parts of it are covered by trees and her home. According to the existing rules, that means the farm status she has enjoyed since 1996 might be taken away..
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Does Peat Moss Have a Place in the Ecological Garden Does Peat Moss Have a Place in the Ecological Garden? Canadian
For many years, there has been a debate between peat producers and conservationists as to the long term effects of the use of peat moss as a gardening material. That argument is getting louder as our knowledge of the dangers of global warming increase.
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An Organic Hero Kenyan Farmers Versus Euro Environmentalists
Last month Britain's Soil Association, which certifies produce as organic, toughened its rules for air-freighted food. Suppliers must show evidence that farmers in developing countries are being paid a fair price, and that there are no local markets for their produce.
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Vilsack: USDA Must Serve Eaters as Well as Farmers

When former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack was nominated as secretary of agriculture, many food policy activists, noting his reputation as a friend to corporate agriculture and ethanol producers, rendered a verdict that was swift and harsh: agribusiness as usual.  Whole Story

 
 

   



 

 

 

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