Another Reason for a Carbon Tax
How do we create a marketplace that will pay landowners and others to double the carbon content of their soil?
Food & Water
Seed sharing in US threatened by regulation
Local regulators in the US are starting to apply laws meant for big, corporate seed producers to the approximately 300 community seed libraries in the US. Unless regulators are stopped soon, these seed libraries may be quickly regulated out of existence. State regulators are copying one another and, unfortunately, this trend is gaining momentum.
Urban Farming Guys
Anyway sometimes something pops up in one of your streams that breaks through all the nonsense and shines a powerful beam of hope..
Renowned Chef Dan Barber Offers Radical New Way to Farm
After researching farm communities throughout the world for more than a decade, Barber concluded America’s food needs a radical transformation to ensure the future of our health, food and land.
Securing Water for Urban Farms
A surprisingly large share of the world’s cropland is found not in rural areas, but within cities and their immediate surroundings.
SELC and Shareable Kickoff Campaign to Save Seed Sharing in the U.S.
The campaign is designed to educate people about seed sharing issues, support seed sharing communities, and reform overzealous seed laws.
“Revolting” Food Traditions
Our emotive reactions to food are incredibly powerful in guiding our culinary habits.
What is Food Security?
Food Security means that all people at all times have physical & economic access to adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, and culturally appropriate foods, which are produced in an environmentally sustainable and socially just manner, and that people are able to make informed decisions about their food choices.
Helping Young Farmers Farm
Young people across the country are striving to enter careers in farming. But the challenges they face are immense.
4 Innovative Community Food Projects Empowering Low-Income Residents
There are many community food organizations working hard to create a more sustainable and equitable food system.
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain?
In the past decade and a half, a few local environmentalists have been collaborating with city and county officials to rewrite the plan for water here, driven by more and more urgent necessity.
Land Literacy
How many people could recognize an ecological wound if they saw one?
