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Ellen LaConte : Garden As If Your Life Depended on It
Digging in for the future. Image from Civil Eats.Because it will:Garden as if your life depended on it By Ellen LaConte / The Rag Blog / March 31, 2011 Spring has sprung — at least south of the northern tier … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Ecology, Ellen LaConte, Environment, Peak Food, Peak Oil, Sustainability, Urban Gardens
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Robert Jensen : Saving Soils and Souls
Top, 2009 Prairie Festival. Image from landlogics. Below, Prairie Festival 2010. Image from The Land Institute.Soils and souls:The promise of The Land By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / October 18, 2010 Stop me if you’ve heard this one: … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Ecology, Land Institute, Robert Jensen, Sustainability
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Harvey Wasserman : Hemp Is no Paper Tiger
Image from Hemp & Chocolat.California’s Prop. 19:With legal pot comes legal hemp,history’s most profitable industrial crop By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 18, 2010 Hemp is the far bigger economic issue hiding behind legal marijuana. If the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, American History, California, Drug Law Reform, Farming, Harvey Wasserman, Hemp, Marijuana
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Roger Baker : ‘Peak Food’ Next Global Crisis?
Image from Care2.The next global crisis:Will ‘peak food’ follow ‘peak oil’? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 23, 2010 Will we soon experience a global peak in food production, similar to peak oil? It is too difficult … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Economics, Food Crisis, Peak Food, Peak Oil, Poverty, Roger Baker
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John Ross : The ‘Feminization’ of Mexican Agriculture
Purepecha woman in reboza, on plate from Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan. Image from Teyacapan / Flickr.Working the parcela:‘Feminization’ is hope for Mexican agriculture By John Ross / The Rag Blog / May 24, 2010 SANTA CRUZ TANACO, Mexico — When I first … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Indigenous People, John Ross, Mexico, Women
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Big Brother : Still Coming to Animal Farm?
Pig Brother? Cartoon by neophron / toonpool.National animal identification system:Is Big Brother still coming to Animal Farm? By Steve Rossignol / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2010 In February of this year, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the … Continue reading
BOOKS/ Jonah Raskin : Michael Pollan’s ‘Food Rules’
We can decide what we want to eat!Michael Pollan: America’s new Food CzarBy Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 8, 2010 [Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin, Trade Paperback, December 29, 2009, 112 pp, $11.00.] … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Books, Cuisine, Diet, Food, Jonah Raskin, Nutrition, Whole Foods
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Organic Farming : Cutting Carbon Emissions Big Time
Photo from The Red Mullet.Going organic:Dump the mega-corps and save the world? By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009 A new report from The Soil Association [see article below] says a worldwide switch to organic farming … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, Organic Farming, Steve Russell
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Agriculture : The Uses of Biotechnology
Genetic science in agriculture:The uses of biotechnology By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 22, 2009 I recently wrote about GMO’s on The Rag Blog (“The Future of Agriculture: Genetics and the Limits of Oil“) and I want … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Global Warming, Medicine, Science
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The Future of Agriculture : Genetics and the Limits of Oil
Agriculture, genetics and a sustainable future… …the oil requirement for U.S. food production and transportation will no doubt loom as a much bigger factor, forcing a restructuring of the food industry. By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Genetic Engineering, Peak Oil, Sustainability, Transportation
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Biodiversity and Global Change : Carbon in the Soil
Insights from soil carbon research: Scientists analyze interactions with climate change and land management to address food, fuel, water and fiber needs. By Alison Grantham / October 18, 2009 Nearly 300 soil scientists from 33 countries gathered last week in … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Scientific Research, Sustainability
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Many Ways Industrial Agriculture Is Making Us Sick
Runoff of waste from farm animals is said to be a source of pollutants in drinking water. Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times.Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls WellsBy Charles Duhigg / September 17, 2009 MORRISON, Wis. — All … Continue reading
