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Digest: Food’s future heats up, dairy prices tank, and we ask FDA to hold the peanut butter

By • on January 11, 2009

Incompetence sandwich: 400 people have been sickened nationwide by a Salmonella outbreak linked to King Nut peanut butter, and while the company has quickly responded with a voluntary recall, the FDA has yet to issue a press release telling the public they should avoid the stuff. Are they nuts? (CNN.com) 2100:

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Weed’em and reap

By • on July 4, 2008

Now that our Victory Gardens are starting to burst with the fruits (and vegetables) of our labors, those of us who have just recovered from the physical exhaustion of planting the crops find there's "no rest for the

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Salon.com plays the locavoreanism-debunking game

By • on June 28, 2008

The type of article lamented by a few commenters on my recent post about food miles vs. food choices made an appearance in Salon

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Fighting climate change: Food miles vs. food choices

By • on June 23, 2008

If you want to fight global warming with your diet, it is better to change what you eat than where it comes from, according to a recently published article in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental

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Getting a handle on sustainability: It’s the ecosystem (stupid)

By • on May 18, 2008

Caption: Monterey Bay Aquarium visitors watch a small bluefin tuna (center). If world overfishing of this top predator doesn't slow soon, aquariums may be the only places to see one. The word "sustainability" came up

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Bay Area event: A discussion of climate-friendly eating

By • on March 30, 2008

Tomorrow night (Monday, March 31) I'm moderating a discussion about making environmentally conscious food choices, sponsored by CUESA. It's a pretty great panel — all women, incidentally: Helene York, Director of Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation and Project Director of the company’s

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Climate change already yielding food disruptions

By • on March 4, 2008

A recurring theme of last fall's Kaw Valley Farm Tour was the terrible, killing freeze of the preceding spring. Now, scientists are

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Thinking about carbon “foodprints”

By • on March 2, 2008

The February 25 issue of The New Yorker has an important article by staff writer Michael Specter about some of the economic, logistical, and moral issues related to our individual

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