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Exploring the Vast Potential of a Strange New Industry

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

0u812.wordpress.com - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - Our pressing need to develop a more sustainable society also provides the opportunity for entrepreneurs to develop niche markets which may someday leave the corporate giants of today in the dust, where they belong.

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What is Sustainable Food Anyway?

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Change.org - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - Have you ever noticed that once a discussion goes on long enough, certain phrases start to lose meaning? Everybody merrily tosses terminology around, rarely stopping to think what each term really means. Some phrases seem to balloon, taking on connotations they weren’t designed to carry, and other phrases get pared down into a specific meaning until they are slivers of their former robust selves. Such confusion is present in the food-obsessed corners of the Internet; with so many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak, the sustainable food conversation is getting a bit muddled. I was tipped off to this fact when fellow change.org blogger Amanda Kloer posted the following comment to a recent post of mine: Perhaps this is a dumb question (I'm no expert on food), but to me it seems like people often use the terms “sustainable" and "healthy" as synonyms. Are they? Is sustainable food really about getting more leafy greens into people or is it really about creating a food system that keeps the environment healthy and doesn't abuse animals or workers? If it's the former, why don't we call it the "healthy food movement"? If it's the latter, then can we have sustainable burgers and fries with sustainable milkshakes?

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Sustainable Seattle: City Launches New Compost Pickup Program as Part of Zero Waste Strategy

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Richard Conlin, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Mar. 30 (Interview) - we’ve been working for a long time to try and improve a lot of different things about the way in which we deal with environmental issues and into the concept of sustainability, which brings environment, economy, social justice and community together. So this is simply one step in making that happen. The Zero Waste Strategy is designed to really take the next step beyond recycling. Lots of people recycle. What we’re talking about is waste reduction and moving to the next stage, where we actually reduce the amount of waste that’s sent away to the landfills.

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Why the Global Economy Is a Ponzi Scheme and We Are All Bernie Madoffs

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joseph Romm - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - As Thomas Friedman agrees in the next article, we have constructed the grandest of Ponzi schemes by living off future generations.

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Dirty Coal Has Left the Building

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jeff Biggers - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - ...marchers are gathering in the park just to the south of the Capitol, a few blocks from the Capitol Power Plant....chanting "Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie,"... It's an energetic crowd, on a very windy and cold day, though the sun keeps attempting to break through... Carl "Pete" Ramey, a great-grandfather from Wise County, Virginia, and VFW chaplain, who spent 37 years laboring in an underground mine, has just read an opening prayer: "Is faith asleep? Let it wake. Today is ours. Let's take it." ...Kentucky farmer-poet Wendell Berry has arrived, stocking cap afixed, bracing in the cold wind...

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Beyond Scarcity: Reinventing Wealth in a Progressive World

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Joe Brewer - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - We are bound to make the world in our own image. So, we had better be sure we have the right values in mind as we think about ourselves in this historic transition.

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The Good Life

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

YouTube - By Dr. Mark S. Albion - Feb. 24 (Cartoon) - Why don't you stay out and catch more fish? I can help you expand your business. And then what?

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All-American Canal, California-Mexico border

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

NASA - By NASA Earth Observatory - Feb. 23 (Statement) - The All-American Canal, the largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border, shows up in this astronaut photograph. This image captures about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) of the important infrastructure corridor just west of Yuma, Arizona. The prominent dark line crossing the image is the Canal, which is crossed in this view by Interstate Highway 8. The canal carries 740.6 cubic meters (26,155 cubic feet) of water per second westward from the Colorado River to support the intensive agriculture of California’s Imperial Valley to the northwest and nine cities, including San Diego. The canal system is the Imperial Valley’s only source of water, and it allows irrigation of more than 2,000 square kilometers (500,000 acres) of agricultural fields. The Coachella Canal, one of four main branch canals, leads water north to Imperial Valley.

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Coca-Cola's Latest Environmental Scam: Water

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Amit Srivastsava - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - The International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for its abuses in India has been frustrated with Coca-Cola's increased public relations, under the guise of corporate social responsibility, to respond to the crisis that Coca-Cola has created in India. Communities living around some of Coca-Cola's bottling plants in India are experiencing severe water shortages -- due to Coca-Cola's extraction of water from the groundwater resource, as well as pollution by the company's plants.

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Louise McCready: Ruth Reichl on a White House Garden for a Nation Of Foodies

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Louise McCready - Oct. 27 (Interview) - I would like for the First Family to be eating really good food, carefully cooked, cooked with a conscious, and for the American public to know what the First Family is eating. I think it would have an enormous impact on the way the rest of America eats and it would be simple. This is not a huge agenda. Doesn't require a big budget. Doesn't require acts of congress. That would be my first profound wish.

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Louise McCready: Dan Barber on How the Next President Should Initiate the "Food Deal"

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Louise McCready - Oct. 21 (Interview) - I think we need a president that can frame this issue in that way, remove it from the elitist, rich man's, farmer's market, organic perspective, and turn it into a very mainstream thing. It can be done. Look at Willy Nelson...I am convinced that the economic realities of growing food the way we're growing it is not sustainable any more. When the environmental realities, when the gastronomical realities, when the health realities, all of that hasn't been enough, what's going to push it is this price parity between the kind of food I was talking about -- and a lot of people are talking about -- and the kind of food that we're eating. When there's a price parity, people are going to be looking at it much differently.

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Agriculture: Unsustainable Resource Depletion Began 10,000 Years Ago

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Oil Drum - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - According to the author, humanity has probably been in overshoot of the Earth's carrying capacity since it abandoned hunter gathering in favor of crop cultivation (~ 8,000 BCE). The problem is that soil needs tightly woven natural ecosystems to properly recycle nutrients and prevent soil erosion.

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Bill Maher with Jeffrey D. Sachs

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

YouTube - By Bill Maher, Jeffrey D. Sachs - Apr. 30 (Comedy News) - [video]

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Capitalism Collapse Disorder: 'Burt's Bees' Disappears - The Smirking Chimp

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:08:03 -0800

The Smirking Chimp - By Zbignew Zingh - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - From news media predators like Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, to the 800-pound computer software gorilla, Microsoft, to omnivorous grocery store chains like Whole Foods, the trend is for large companies to gobble small ones and for a few giant corporations eventually to control everything. More than a century ago, Marx described that as the natural monopolistic evolution of capital.

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The Exceptional CEO

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:08:25 -0700

MetaFilter - By Kirth Gerson - Aug. 30 (Opinion) - When his Malden Mills burned to the ground in December, 1995, he took a $300,000,000 insurance payment and used much of it to pay his 3,000 workers ther wages and benefits while he began to rebuild the factory.

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Revolt of the CEOs

Sat, 26 May 2007 23:56:56 -0700

Washington Monthly - By Christopher Hayes - May. 26 (Opinion) - David Brooks has been urging fellow conservatives to stop looking to the idealized small-government icons of Goldwater and Reagan as a guide to the problems of the twenty-first century. "Democratic approaches are favored on almost all domestic, tax, and fiscal issues, and even on foreign affairs," Brooks wrote in an April column entitled "Grim Old Party." "The public, in short, wants change. And yet the Republicans refuse to offer that."

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