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Tech start-ups looking to speed farm-to-table orders

2012-01-27T10:58:00.001-05:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203718504577179100399019874.html

Antioxidant-Rich Foods Ward Off Stroke | Worldhealth.net Anti-Aging News

2012-01-26T10:45:00.000-05:00

Antioxidant-Rich Foods Ward Off Stroke | Worldhealth.net Anti-Aging News

Public Need for Healthy Food Should Drive Agricultural Law and Policy; Study Calls for Laws to Support Food, Farming and Sustainability

2012-01-26T10:34:00.000-05:00

Public Need for Healthy Food Should Drive Agricultural Law and Policy; Study Calls for Laws to Support Food, Farming and Sustainability

One City's Solution to Homeless Animals: Shoot 'Em!

2012-01-20T15:42:00.000-05:00

One City's Solution to Homeless Animals: Shoot 'Em! But there are better solutions.

Diet rich in legumes, beans, whole grains helps reduces deadly inflammation

2012-01-12T15:59:00.001-05:00

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/584629/?sc=dwhr&xy=5046015

Nevada's urban-rural water wars

2012-01-12T15:51:00.002-05:00

FDA decisionmakers have ties to the companies whose drugs they approve

2012-01-12T15:49:00.001-05:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203436904577153160177537828.html

Harvard report: Dairy unhealthy

2012-01-04T09:17:00.000-05:00

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/harvard-declares-dairy-not-part-of-healthy-diet.html

Butterball turkey factory farm holiday brutality exposed

2011-12-31T19:53:00.000-05:00

http://www.grist.org/factory-farms/2011-12-29-will-butterball-raid-yield-any-real-results

Rev. Al Sharpton Now a Vegetarian | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.

2011-12-30T10:33:00.000-05:00

Rev. Al Sharpton Now a Vegetarian | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.

Why we're not natural carnivores

2011-12-29T16:05:00.000-05:00

From The Atlantic magazine: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/dead-cow-walking-the-case-against-born-again-carnivorism/250506/

Amaranth makes a comeback - ancient Aztec superfood

2011-12-29T09:58:00.000-05:00

I wrote about it 10/2010...now it has reached Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/michellemaisto/2011/12/05/meet-amaranth-quinoas-ancient-superfood-cousin/

Columbus OH Short North Noshing

2011-12-28T14:57:00.000-05:00

Short North Noshing

Kooky sides of Paris

2011-12-26T09:14:00.000-05:00

Skating on the Eiffel Tower, catching raucous fanfare bands on the Opera steps....

Anti-poaching efforts saving wildlife

2011-12-21T10:09:00.000-05:00

Candid Video Clips from Thailand Show Anti-Poaching Efforts Saving Wildlife

Save billions of tax dollars by fixing farm subsidies

2011-12-16T10:13:00.002-05:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-barnard-md/snap-program-budget_b_913570.html

Miami: Vegan & Vegan-Friendly Eateries

2011-12-15T11:30:00.000-05:00

Miami: Vegan & Vegan-Friendly Eateries

"Why be vegan?"

2011-12-14T14:44:00.001-05:00

Safer cosmetics - what to buy

2011-12-14T13:46:00.002-05:00

E Magazine: Help stretch Earth's resources; eat less meat

2011-12-14T13:33:00.001-05:00

http://www.emagazine.com/earth-talk/eating-less-meat-is-good-for-the-environment/

More studies showing rats like to be helpful and have empathy

2011-12-12T17:04:00.001-05:00

Near-death calves - a few rescued

2011-12-11T23:28:00.002-05:00

Chick-Fil-A-holes strike again

2011-12-10T00:50:00.000-05:00

Suing an artist over his "Eat More Kale" t-shirt. Chick-Fil-A-holes. Seriously, who would eat there? Someone on a Rascal scooter who can't make it to McDonald's?

Ark. court holds GMO rice biz liable for crop losses due to contamination

2011-12-09T20:14:00.000-05:00

Feeding Goodness or Badness

2011-12-09T14:31:00.000-05:00

Time to end chimpanzee experiments - Boulder Daily Camera

2011-12-08T18:08:00.000-05:00

Time to end chimpanzee experiments - Boulder Daily Camera

South Beach: On a Health Kick

2011-12-05T16:57:00.000-05:00

South Beach: On a Health Kick

Travel: Lakeside luxury Lake Geneva community welcomes everyone - Las Cruces Sun-News

2011-11-27T14:56:00.000-05:00

Travel: Lakeside luxury Lake Geneva community welcomes everyone - Las Cruces Sun-News

Bram Stoker's Dublin - Travel - NewsObserver.com

2011-11-26T21:30:00.000-05:00

Bram Stoker's Dublin - Travel - NewsObserver.com

Fostering a dog, cat or other animal - great way to have and help animals

2011-11-26T12:28:00.000-05:00

A temporary arrangement good for those whose living/travel situation keeps them from having a companion animal.

Lab-grown meat: state of the art and science

2011-11-25T17:46:00.000-05:00

Barnstorming scientist explains the status and benefits of lab-grown meat. More humane and apparently healthier than slaughterhouse-derived flesh. http://www.theurbn.com/2011/11/grass-fed-or-lab-grown-how-do-you-prefer-your-meat/

Rising meat consumption consuming grain needed to feed the world

2011-11-22T09:17:00.000-05:00

http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights22

Super Committee Hauls in Donations for its Members

2011-11-21T14:48:00.002-05:00

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/10/18/7138/super-congress-hauls-super-donations-special-interests-try-influence-budget-cuts

Dolphin spins, watching her reflection in a mirror

2011-11-21T01:52:00.001-05:00

NYTimes: Thanking those pushing for honest food

2011-11-20T10:00:00.003-05:00

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/no-turkeys-here/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

Searching for Eco-Cookie

2011-11-19T11:01:00.000-05:00

Why does farm bill support unhealthy food and penalize organic/small growers?

2011-11-18T13:06:00.000-05:00

...and what you and I can do. Well worth watching:

Common infections to become untreatable due to antibiotic overuse

2011-11-18T11:24:00.001-05:00

The Truth about Egg McMuffin suppliers

2011-11-18T10:48:00.002-05:00

Talking Turkeys with Biz Stone, Twitter Founder

2011-11-17T18:31:00.002-05:00

Insurance study: Deer-Car Collisions Increase During Hunting Season

2011-11-17T16:08:00.001-05:00

Insurance studies show Deer-Car Collisions Increase During Hunting Season

Check out the American Dietitics Ass'n's funders

2011-11-16T22:43:00.002-05:00

Dishealth is very profitable business.

Have a caring ethical Thanksgiving

2011-11-15T13:42:00.000-05:00

Puny handslap fines don't deter polluters

2011-11-15T13:40:00.001-05:00

Special report here http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2011/11/14/1

Smog-eating material ready to use

2011-11-14T13:32:00.001-05:00

Miami: La Vida Susatainable

2011-11-14T11:02:00.000-05:00

http://www.theurbn.com/2011/11/south-beach-la-vida-sustainable/

Citizens expose company pollution covered up by govt lackies

2011-11-11T14:16:00.000-05:00

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/11/10/7355/where-regulators-failed-citizens-took-action-testing-their-own-air

In Search of Miami Sazón (Part 1)

2011-11-07T19:47:00.000-05:00

In Search of Miami Sazón (Part 1)

Buff Urbanism, Permanculture and Art in Miami

2011-11-06T11:18:00.000-05:00

http://www.theurbn.com/2011/11/miami-post-modern-buff-urbanism/

Art of the Living Dead...in Denver

2011-10-30T20:52:00.002-04:00

http://www.theurbn.com/2011/10/art-of-the-living-dead/

Taking in Denver's Artscape

2011-10-28T08:05:00.000-04:00

Taking in Denver's Artscape

Denver Art Runs Deep:: Robert Adams photographic wake-up calls

2011-10-22T17:28:00.000-04:00

http://www.theurbn.com/2011/10/wake-up-call-denver-art-is-more-than-pretty-pictures/

New Photos Highlight Global Extent of Shark Fin Trade: Pew Calls For More Action to Protect Depleted Species - Pew environment Group

2011-10-20T16:11:00.000-04:00

New Photos Highlight Global Extent of Shark Fin Trade: Pew Calls For More Action to Protect Depleted Species - Pew environment Group

Think instead of pink if you want to fight cancer

2011-10-19T07:16:00.000-04:00

What’s in that Pink Ribbon Product?

Women Unite: Together, We Can Beat Breast Cancer

2011-10-19T01:00:00.000-04:00

Women Unite: Together, We Can Beat Breast Cancer Take back the power from the industrial-medical complex, ladies!

Outsmarting Cancer Genes with Preventative Food

2011-10-17T13:03:00.000-04:00

Outsmarting Cancer Genes with Preventative Food

What's the Keystone XL pipeline anyway?

2011-10-15T16:06:00.000-04:00

http://www.propublica.org/article/explainer-what-is-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-and-why-is-it-so-controversial

Rick Perry doctored environmental report, muting climate problems

2011-10-15T15:52:00.000-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/14/rick-perry-texas-censorship-environment-report

&B&B: Bed-and-Breakfasts and Boats in Maine

2011-10-14T16:22:00.000-04:00

B&B&B: Bed-and-Breakfasts and Boats in Maine

PETA Prime: Bird-Watching in the Fall: Who Have You Seen Lately?

2011-10-11T23:53:00.000-04:00

Bird-Watching in the Fall: Who Have You Seen Lately?

Molasses used in cleanup of polluted sites - NorthJersey.com

2011-10-11T18:00:00.000-04:00

Molasses used in cleanup of polluted sites - NorthJersey.com

Old-fashioned spa treatments and baths in Hot Springs

2011-10-09T18:19:00.000-04:00

http://www.theurbn.com/2011/10/taking-the-waters-in-hot-springs/http://www.theurbn.com/2011/10/taking-the-waters-in-hot-springs/

Recycling Ocean Trash from Pacific Gyre

2011-10-08T13:34:00.000-04:00

Children Find Human-Made Objects More Likely to be Owned than Natural Objects

2011-10-07T10:22:00.000-04:00

Children Find Human-Made Objects More Likely to be Owned than Natural Objects

World’s Largest Shark Sanctuary Declared in Central Pacific - Pew Environment Group

2011-10-06T16:42:00.000-04:00

World’s Largest Shark Sanctuary Declared in Central Pacific - Pew Environment Group

Most farm subsidies go to big livestock producers

2011-10-03T21:24:00.001-04:00

Koch brothers shady and illicit bus dealings

2011-10-03T12:56:00.000-04:00

"What many people don’t know is how the Kochs’ anti- regulation political ideology has influenced the way they conduct business."

Cabin Fervor in the Maine Woods

2011-10-01T13:26:00.001-04:00

http://www.theurbn.com/2011/10/cabin-fervor-in-the-maine-woods/

Mysterious bee deaths due to poisonous groundkeeping

2011-09-30T12:54:00.000-04:00

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110930/NEWS01/309300018/Mysterious-south-Brevard-bee-kill-confounds-costs-keepers?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Local%20News

California subsidizes logging industry witj $18 million a year

2011-09-29T14:53:00.003-04:00

Tech time: Kindle quick review

2011-09-28T17:54:00.002-04:00

Tech Time: Kindle quick review:

Yes.

That's it, in a word. Great for travel anywhere. Great for home use.
How does it compare with the iPad? Don't compare it. You can't expect a $199 (yes!) device to do everything that a $599 device can.
But that said, the Kindle Fire has some amenities that the iPad lacks. Such as: FLASH!
Why the low price point? It seems to me that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, being a smart guy, realizes that this is a smart move to boost sales of content -- Amazon content. Good move.

It's a buy.

More info here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx8JRF3BB4TRDE

Acknowledge No Evil: How People Come to Accept Violence Against Animals as Normal (Part 3) | HumaneSpot.org

2011-09-28T13:31:00.001-04:00

Acknowledge No Evil: How People Come to Accept Violence Against Animals as Normal (Part 3) | HumaneSpot.org

The Top Ten Urban Parks | GORP.com

2011-09-28T13:10:00.001-04:00

The Top Ten Urban Parks | GORP.com

Dan Rather on pesticides & bees

2011-09-27T16:24:00.001-04:00

Dan Rather on pesticides & bees
Bee Aware from Greg Stanley on Vimeo.

Knowing the bears, childrens, cows, and "the others"

2011-09-27T00:42:00.000-04:00

Knowing Animals What if everyone who chooses to eat meat could do so only after spending a week with some farmed animals? What if hunters had to spend a few days with the family of the animal they killed, watching those animals grieve?

Supermarkets Pledge to Help End Long-distance Transport of Pigs

2011-09-25T22:18:00.000-04:00

Supermarkets Pledge to Help End Long-distance Transport of Pigs

How Community Supported Agriculture Sprouted In China

2011-09-25T13:08:00.000-04:00

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/09/24/140670551/how-community-supported-agriculture-sprouted-in-china

Your complicity in daily brutality....

2011-09-24T08:00:00.000-04:00

Emerson reminds us to think beyond our plates, and what we each can do to reduce cruelty to individual innocent beings.

Dreamy Cabin and Dreamy Food in the Maine Woods

2011-09-24T00:01:00.000-04:00

A Dreamy Cabin and Dreamy Food in the Maine Woods

Arsenic used by factory chicken farms for faster growth, "pink" appealing color

2011-09-19T19:56:00.000-04:00

"Every year about two million pounds of arsenic-containing chemicals have been fed to chickens in the United States. Why would the industry do such a thing? When tens of thousands of birds are crammed into filthy, football field-sized sheds to lie beak-to-beak in their own waste they can become so heavily infested with internal parasites that adding arsenic to the feed to poison the bugs can result in a dramatic increase in growth rates. Also, arsenic can give the carcass a pinkish tinge, which consumers prefer." Read this important article re: Dr. Oz and Dr. Geiger insights. http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/09/19/dr-oz-apple-juice-and-arsenic-chicken-may-have-10-times-more/

Saving the speared swimmer at The Turtle Hospital

2011-09-19T11:01:00.001-04:00

Visiting the Turtle Hospital and Crane Point bird rescue center in Marathon FL http://www.theurbn.com/2011/09/emergen-sea-visiting-the-turtle-hospital/

Egg producer partners' battles reveal more violations in Iowa

2011-09-18T13:04:00.000-04:00

Contagious Concerns about Health Risks of Factory Farming

2011-09-18T09:13:00.000-04:00

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One spark can light a fire...for good

2011-09-18T01:46:00.000-04:00

The Crucial Roles of Predators in Ecosystems - Exposed!

2011-09-17T14:39:00.000-04:00

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_crucial_role_of_predators_a_new_perspective_on_ecology/2442/

Reducing Food Waste

2011-09-16T14:50:00.001-04:00

Do you support the corporate power, land and water grab?

2011-09-15T14:49:00.000-04:00

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/09/oilsands-pipeline-roulette

Ancient Incan agriculture revived due to climate change | PRI.ORG

2011-09-10T16:45:00.000-04:00

Ancient Incan agriculture revived due to climate change | PRI.ORG

Colorado B&B’s grounds and relics hint at who slept here centuries ago - The Boston Globe

2011-09-10T01:59:00.000-04:00

Colorado B&B’s grounds and relics hint at who slept here centuries ago - The Boston Globe

Buffalo Spotted in Washington DC - new exhibit

2011-09-08T22:07:00.000-04:00

The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century is now on exhibitin Washington, D.C., and available for virtual viewing online. The show's title harks back to a super-sized cabinet of curiosities Buffalo Spotted in Washington, D.C.

China's energy & food consumption...not enough resources

2011-09-08T13:24:00.000-04:00

http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights18

Among the key commodities such as grain, meat, oil, coal, and steel, China consumes more of each than the United States except for oil, where the United States still has a wide (though narrowing) lead. China uses a quarter more grain than the United States. Its meat consumption is double that of the United States. It uses three times as much coal and four times as much steel.
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE - click the LINK.

What China is teaching us is that the western economic model—the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy—will not work for the world. If it does not work for China, it will not work for India, which by 2035 is projected to have an even larger population than China. Nor will it work for the other 3 billion people in developing countries who are also dreaming the "American dream." And in an increasingly integrated global economy, where we all depend on the same grain, oil, and steel, the western economic model will no longer work for the industrial countries either.

The overriding challenge for our generation is to build a new economy—one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a much more diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. We have the technology to build this new economy, an economy that will allow us to sustain economic progress. But can we muster the political will to translate this potential into reality?

BlueJacket Shipcrafters: A See-worthy Port of Call in Maine

2011-09-06T01:43:00.000-04:00

ONE New England - BlueJacket Shipcrafters: A See-worthy Port of Call ...new article for all ship and model ship buffs.

Mortgage interest deduction - costs taxpayers $1 trillion

2011-09-04T19:57:00.000-04:00

Beloved by the public and the real estate industry, the deduction will cost the government more than $1 trillion over the next decade.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/03/MN101KRFD4.DTL#ixzz1X1zrT6By

Laughter's good for blood vessels

2011-09-03T19:30:00.002-04:00

Build your own houseboat to cruise Sebago Lake, Maine?

2011-09-03T17:27:00.002-04:00

This author did! ONE New England - Sebago Lake, Maine

Midcoast Maine: Art Running Wild

2011-09-02T22:26:00.000-04:00

Great place to go art-spotting and eat organic cuisine. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/02/TREA1KSHUK.DTL

How "livestock" cows are treated: 2 must-see videos

2011-09-02T10:34:00.000-04:00

How cows are mistreated routinely at factory farms - dairy and beef.

Fear at the salughterhouse:

Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow

2011-09-02T10:20:00.000-04:00

Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow -- how to break those habits? One tip: “It’s not always feasible for dieters to avoid or alter the environments in which they typically overeat,” Wood said. “More feasible, perhaps, is for dieters top actively disrupt the established patterns of how they eat through simple techniques, such as switching the hand they use to eat.”

The Glamorous Past and Desolate Present of 'America's Dead Sea' - The Atlantic

2011-09-01T21:49:00.000-04:00

The Glamorous Past and Desolate Present of 'America's Dead Sea' - The Atlantic

BRAZIL: Rainforest Defenders Marked for Death - IPS ipsnews.net

2011-09-01T11:55:00.000-04:00

BRAZIL: Rainforest Defenders Marked for Death - IPS ipsnews.net