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Tag: Sustainable Farms

America has a flooding problem it can’t manage. Vermont’s experience shows a possible way forward.

March 31st, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

We can’t build our way out of future floods with better levees, just as we can’t build our way out of traffic congestion with wider highways.

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Topacio Reynoso

‘If we’re attacked, we’ll die together,’ a teenage anti-mining activist told her family. But when the bullets came, they killed only her.

December 27th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

The Los Angeles Times tells the story of Topacio Reynoso, a farmer’s daughter from a remote village in Guatemala who, at fourteen, “devoted herself to opposing construction of a large silver mine planned for a town nearby”.

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Puerto Rico flag map

Puerto Rico’s farms wiped out by Hurricane Maria

September 25th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Our Environment

There will be no food in Puerto Rico… There is no more agriculture in Puerto Rico. And there won’t be any for a year or

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Atlantic salmon

FDA sued over genetically engineered salmon

April 9th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

“Less than six months after the FDA approved the first genetically altered animal, it has its first legal challenge,” KING 5 reports.

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Makers of unhealthy, processed food starting to change their ways

May 5th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, Our Environment

Makers of unhealthy, processed food starting to change their ways The New York Times recaps a string of developments that are poised to have a

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Oysters in Willapa Bay

Washington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters

April 25th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Washington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters In one of the finest pieces that Bloomberg has ever published, journalist Bill Donahue explains

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Egg prices likely to rise amid laws mandating cage-free henhouses

December 29th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Egg producers have had six years to come into compliance with Proposition 2, and instead of using that time to convert to cage-free systems, they’ve

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California Drying

October 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

The above images are not satellite photographs. They show how much groundwater has been lost from central and southern California over the past decade, mostly due to agriculture. (Image: NASA, via the Los Angeles Times)

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The real price of cheap food: Slavery

June 11th, 2014 Kathleen Reynolds Economic Security, Our Environment, World Community

The real price of cheap food: Slavery The Guardian reports that U.S. stores such as Costco and Walmart are selling shrimp from Thailand produced using

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New apple variety, Cosmic Crisp, ready for production

June 9th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

New apple variety, Cosmic Crisp, ready for production Apple breeders at Washington State University have developed a new kind of apple that will be landing

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Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields four times normal litigation

February 26th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields four times normal litigation The Onion is on a roll this week. The satirical publication’s latest home

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