Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Linked to Fracking Found in Colorado River
This week, more evidence came in that hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) poses potentially serious risks to drinking water quality and human health.
Food & Water
Italy’s “Slow Food” Pioneer: How My Love for Food Ripened into a Life’s Work
A basic tenet of Slow Food is that everyone on the planet should have the right and access to good, clean, and fair food.
The Last Nomads and the Culture of Fear
My wife and I went semi-nomadic in 2010, traveling the mountain West for almost two years. Not having a settled home was eye-opening, and taught me a lot about one of my perennial themes: how much humans lost when we became domesticated by agriculture.
A New Way of Doing Business for CSAs Emerges in Chattanooga, TN
In 2012, EPB, an electricity and communications distributor, partnered with Gaining Ground, a nonprofit dedicated to local food awareness, to develop a business plan that would make CSAs more accessible.
Growing Farm to Hospital
A growing number of hospitals are shifting the way they think about protecting and improving health, and taking a closer look at how and where the food they serve is grown.
What my garden told me in 2013
The results of the dialogue I conducted with my garden in 2013 are in. Did my hypotheses bear out? What questions did the garden ask and answer that I didn’t anticipate? You’ll have to read the post to find out!
Relational Foodsheds?
When you do a 10 or 100 or locavore diet, you realize how our current food system is like a stage set for the Okay Corral. Behind those false fronts is a machinery of illusion.
Wild Eats, Resilient Farms, and Freedom From Money: 3 Holiday Reads for the Radical Homemaker
Every year, my favorite gift to give (and to get) is a good book.
El Descenso Energético
En los más de quince años desde que comencé a dar cursos en permacultura y eco-diseño, me he dado cuenta que lo que más convence no son las palabras sino el ejemplo.
Alternatives and Resistance to Policies that Generate Hunger: Seeds and Peasant Autonomy
Agricultural biodiversity is the result of a thousand years of interaction between nature and the communities which produce the food that the human race needs for its survival.
How different would the world be if we paid the True Cost of food and farming?
What would our food system look like if the impacts of production on the environment and on public health were taken into account? At present the polluter doesn’t pay, and those producing food sustainably are not rewarded for positive outcomes.
Tokyo Honey: A Role for Urban Bees
A small organization in the Ginza district of Tokyo has taken a different approach to beekeeping, amassing a large group of volunteers and supporters.
