Becoming Soil Conscious This fall I will be completing my new feature length documentary, Symphony of the Soil. Along with this exploration of soil, I am creating several short films, Sonatas of the Soil, each of which goes deeply into one soil-related topic like dry farming grapes, as is depicted in Portrait of a Winemaker: [...]
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Becoming Soil Conscious by Deborah Koons Garcia
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Sustainable Agriculture on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Farming the Cities, Feeding an Urban Future
Posted in Activism, Environment, News Articles on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Worldwatch’s Nourishing the Planet team emphasizes urban agriculture as a means of increasing food security, empowering women, and protecting the environment. read more here…
California Assembly Health Committee Passes Bill to Require Labels on Genetically Engineered Salmon
Posted in Activism, Environment, Genetic Engineering, News Articles on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
May 4, 2011 – In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, California Bill Could Restore Americans’ Right To Choose In The Marketplace Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, late yesterday the California Assembly Health Committee approved a bill [...]
Conference Asks What the Future of Food Should Look Like
Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Article on the Future of Food conference
WHAT DOES THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAVE TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?The Chamber is controlled by Big Polluters, poisons politics with its dirty money and opposes every single effort to curb climate pollution.
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Bill McKibbon: Together we’ve accomplished an awful lot in the last two years—we’ve built the first mass movement around climate change, with thousands of rallies around the country and around the world. We’ve put the basic science out where it can’t be ignored, and built a coalition of poor and affluent people around the [...]
Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Sustainable Agriculture on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the nation’s senior soil scientists alerted the federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous abortion in farm animals, raising significant concerns about human health. Dr. Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, believes the appearance and prevalence of the unnamed organism may be related [...]
Urge Congress To Take A Stand Against GE Fish! Support the bipartisan legislation to ban GE fish, require labeling
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Petitions on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Despite nearly 400,000 comments in opposition, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to announce its approval of genetically engineered (GE) salmon any day now. To make matters worse, FDA argues that these GE salmon don’t even need to be labeled! In response to FDA’s imminent approval, Congress is taking action. Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and [...]
Over 9,900 Upset Consumers Tell Fair Trade Certifier ‘No Thanks’ on Name Change
Posted in Agroecology, Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
WASHINGTON, DC – North America’s largest consumer advocacy organization, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), which represents over 850,000 consumers, announced last month a new campaign to oppose the name change of the fair trade certifier TransFair USA to “Fair Trade USA”. TransFair has applied for the new name to be trademarked, along with the term [...]
If Obama’s FDA Approves GMO Salmon, Congress Must Act! Ask Your Rep to Cosponsor Young’s Bill to Stop Frankenfish!
Posted in Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Petitions on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Obama Administration’s FDA seems bent on letting the biotech industry get their genetically modified salmon into ocean factory farms that are already spreading filth and disease. The FDA knows that GMO salmon are less nutritious, more likely to cause cancer or trigger allergies, and have a higher rate of deformities than normal fish. Rep. [...]
Tell President Obama not to cave to Monsanto!
Posted in Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Herbicides, Organic Foods, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on February 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Unbelievably, over the past 12 days the Obama administration has approved not one, but two of Monsanto’s Round Up Ready genetically modified (GMO) crops. On Thursday January 27th, the USDA made the decision, under the directive of the White House, to fully deregulate Roundup Ready alfalfa, followed by the partial deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar [...]
