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Media Coverage of the OCA Sludge Dump in San Francisco

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Media Coverage of the OCA Toxic Sludge Dump

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Living Hero Interview with Vandana Shiva

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 19:41

Vandana Shiva appeared as the March 2010 guest on the Living Hero podcast with host Jari Chevalier.

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Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Renewable Energy's Limits

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 19:36

In making the case for a rapid conversion away from heavily polluting energy sources like coal and nuclear power to cleaner generation, renewable energy advocates often confront the argument that their scheme is impossible due to the intermittent nature of sun and wind.

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On Rooftops Worldwide, a Solar Water Heating Revolution

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 15:48

The harnessing of solar energy is expanding on every front as concerns about climate change and energy security escalate, as government incentives for harnessing solar energy expand, and as these costs decline while those of fossil fuels rise.

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OCA and Labor Activists at Shareholder Meeting Say Whole Foods' Business Practices Are Bad for the Planet

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 15:29

At the Whole Foods Market shareholder meeting in Vancouver, BC, the Sustainable Supply Chain Coalition, an alliance of environmental groups, food activist organizations and labor unions, rallied today in support of four shareholder resolutions and called for a change in Whole Foods Market, Inc. and its supplier United Natural Foods Inc.'s unsustainable business practices.

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Are GMOs the 'Financial Innovations' of Agriculture?

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:48

Financial blogger Felix Salmon has an essay in Foreign Policy called "How Locavores Can Save the World" -- expanded, by the way, from a wonderful blog post he wrote after attending a panel discussion on world hunger at the Davos World Economic Forum in the company of Blue Hill Farm's Dan Barber.

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Why are Women Being Left Out of Climate Decision-Making?

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:38

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced an important new climate change financing group last week, but out of the 19 people named, no women were included. This is unfortunate because women will bear the brunt of the effects of climate change and are key to any climate solutions.

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Banned in 160 Nations Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:32

A livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs has been approved by the FDA.

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Wall Street Took Your House and Your Retirement, Now They're After Your Social Security

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:24

In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a "mandatory savings" tax and other belt-tightening measures urged by the president's new budget task force. These radical austerity measures are not only unnecessary, but will actually make matters worse. The push for "fiscal responsibility" is based on bad economics.

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Judge in California Could Halt Planting of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:10

A case involving genetically modified (GM) food will be in front of a federal judge Friday in San Francisco.

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Time for a U.S. Revolution – Fifteen Reasons

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:04

Government works for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful, but it does not work for people.

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Glyphosate Resistance in Weeds: The Transgenic Treadmill

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:03

Glyphosate herbicide was patented and sold by Monsanto corporation since 1974 under the trade name and proprietary formulation Roundup. The herbicide has been used widely in agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, alongside roads and highways, and in home gardening. Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide that poisons many plant species so it is frequently used to 'burn down' weeds on a field prior to the planting or emergence of crops.

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The Spread of Superbugs

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:57

Until three months ago, Thomas M. Dukes was a vigorous, healthy executive at a California plastics company. Then, over the course of a few days in December as he was planning his Christmas shopping, E. coli bacteria ravaged his body and tore his life apart.

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Hospitals Celebrate National Nutrition Month by Emphasizing Plant-Based Menus

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:56

Hospitals across the nation are celebrating National Nutrition Month by changing their food service offerings and staging events to draw more attention to their participation in the Health Care Without Harm Balanced Menus program, which advocates a "Less Meat, Better Meat" approach to hospital food service operations.

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New Drug-Resistant Bacteria Emerging in Hospitals

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:47

Researchers from the "Extending the Cure" project in Washington, D.C., have published a report in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology about a new drug-resistant bug that is plaguing many hospitals. Called Acinetobacter, this new "superbug" is causing severe bloodstream infection and pneumonia in many hospital patients.

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How Food and Water are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:45

An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens.

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America's Chemical and GMO Corn Farmers Say Food Inc. Shouldn't Win Oscar

Sun, 03/07/2010 - 03:14

The corn industry is lashing out at an Oscar-nominated documentary that has grossed out grocery shoppers, saying the film is unfair to many of the nation's farmers and shouldn't win.

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OCA Activists Protest San Francisco Compost

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 16:19

A public interest and environmental advocacy group says San Francisco's free compost, used by community, backyard and school gardens in the Bay Area, is processed sewage sludge - the product of anything flushed, poured or dumped into the wastewater system, including industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical toxins.

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Why Eating Meat-Shaped Vegetarian Food Is Like Having Sex with a Blow-up Doll

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 15:05

It's not meat, but it looks like meat. It's not meat, but it tastes like meat. It's not meat, but it feels like meat.

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Michael Moore: There's Going to Be a Second Economic Crash

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 14:25

We interviewed Michael Moore on The Young Turks today and he was not shy about sharing his opinions. Anyone surprised? He had very strong words for the Democratic Party, the state of our political system and Glenn Beck.

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