The Times (UK): “Ethical eating” is a strong enough trend in London that Whole Foods plans to open its biggest store ever over there.
Montgomery Advertiser: Portrait of a sustainable farm in Alabama, of all places.
Pulse of the Twin Cities: The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is considering an application from Minnesota Pipe Line Company to build an oil pipeline across four organic farms. With 176 oil spills from existing pipelines in the past six years, the new pipeline could pose a serious threat to the organic farms.
Environment News Service: Food or fuel? Lester Brown, the author of Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (which is sitting on Man of La Muncha’s to-read pile), looks at issues surrounding the diversion of food crops to fuel production. (MOLM notes: I agree with an earlier reader comment that the issues of hunger have more to do with distribution and local politics than production, but Brown raises interesting concerns about the diversion of food crops from export to fuel production. However, he sloppily implies that Brazil’s conversion of half their sugar harvest to ethanol production is the cause of doubled sugar prices. I’d like to see hard data that rules out other causes — such as hurricane devastation and rising oil prices — as the causes of sugar price jumps.)
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