archive for April 22nd, 2007

Earth Day: Past time for Americans to scale down our appetites

by @ Sunday, April 22nd, 2007.

In honor of Earth Day, here’s a new video from Free Range Studios, the awesome Berkeley-based animation team that also brought us The Meatrix series. It’s called “One Earth,” and it explains that if everyone lived like Americans — that is, inordinately wastefully — then we’d actually need five Earths to provide enough resources, […]

Digest: Pollan issues Farm Bill manifesto, U.S. lags in organic, birds sick, food aid scrutinized

by @ Sunday, April 22nd, 2007.

Food Bill of Rights and Wrongs: Michael Pollan attempts to reframe the Farm Bill — that “resolutely unglamorous and head-hurtingly complicated piece of legislation” — as a chance to reform the food system so that it actually benefits the interests of eaters. In his usual clear-eyed, deceptively simple style, he explains in detail how the […]

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