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New England Turns To Local Food To Sustain Its Future
The Year: 2060. The location: New England. The menu: At least 50 percent local food. This isn’t the setting for a movie. It’s the vision for the cluster of states known as New England. By 2060, states including Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Massachusetts could be sourcing half of their food from within the region. Read More »
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Open Source Local Food Marketplace Aims To Make It Easier To Find, Buy, And Sell Sustainable Foods
The Open Food Network wants to change the way we connect with our food, by closing the gap between the consumer and the farmer and making it easier to access local food...
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Open Sourcing Our Food System: Planting Seeds For The Future
Food. It’s a basic human need. But as the world population has moved farther and farther from our agrarian roots, the food industry has shifted away from independent farmers and toward an industrial agricultural system. Increasingly, large agricultural companies are turning to monocultures and genetic engineering for efficiency of production and competitive advantage... Read More »
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Open-Source Agriculture: The Sprouting Of A New Food Movement?
Walk through the produce aisle today and you can find labels for organic, fair trade, and local items. For shoppers who oppose the practices of seed agri-giants like Monsanto, one day there may be a new option to consider: open-source. Read More »
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Rapid Prototyping And Tech Stewards: Reflections On Recent Field Work
Having made some excellent contacts during our recent meetings and workshops in Sri Lanka, the project team now needs to consider how those will translate into pilot projects using low cost ICTs. Read More »
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Sneak Peek: What The White House Is Thinking About Antibiotic Resistance
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST for short) is preparing a major report on the problem of antibiotic resistance. The report won’t be published for a few months, but today PCAST held one of its periodic meetings, and aired what it thinks the most important issues are going to be. [...] Read More »
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Steam Punks
How many of your possessions could you make yourself? A couple of amateur engineers are working to design and build a set of tools that would enable the self-reliant to make everything they need. Read More »
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The Rise Of Superweeds—And What To Do About It
It sounds like a sci-fi movie: American farmers fighting desperately to hold back an onslaught of herbicide-defying "superweeds." But there's nothing imaginary—or entertaining—about this scenario. Superweeds are all too real, and they have now spread to over 60 million acres of our farmland, wreaking environmental and economic havoc wherever they go. Read More »
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They’re Feeding WHAT To Cows?
'Poultry litter' is exactly what it sounds like: the filthy stuff scraped off the floor of a chicken coop. Feeding it to cattle (yes, that happens) risks the spread of mad cow disease—yet the FDA has done nothing to stop it. Read More »
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Why Antibiotic Makers Aren't Worried About FDA's Livestock Rules
In a move to alleviate concerns about overuse of antibiotics on farms, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued new guidance directing at animal pharmaceutical companies to phase out the use of certain drugs to promote weight gain in animals. But this won’t mean drug-free livestock [...]. Read More »
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Why This Year's Gulf Dead Zone Is Twice As Big As Last Year's
[...] This year's "biological desert" (NOAA's phrase) is much bigger than last year's, below, which was relatively tiny because Midwestern droughts limited the amount of runoff that made it into the Gulf. At about 2,900 square miles, the 2012 edition measured up to be about a third as large as Delaware. Read More »
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‘Field To Market’ Program Is Not Sustainable: It’s Big Ag’s Latest Lie
For those individuals interested in healthy living and a healthier planet, ears perk up at words like “sustainable agriculture.” A program named “Field to Market” conjures visions of a local food economy—small-scale bucolic farming in truly sustainable fashion—not corporations posturing towards global processed food empires. But that’s exactly what the program is. Read More »
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