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Fermentation is the food movement of the future. Just ask Sandor Katz, who’s a leader in the revolution against microwaves, the vegan or carnivore or pescatarian friendly, post-consumer food-reality where health and happiness converge in a crock. Katz says it better than me, so I’ll ...
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Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin is going to be around a while, and she’s set to be a force. That’s according to Naomi Wolf, a noted feminist writer and author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. But there remain a lot of unanswered questions. Was she a ...
Environment
Sarah Palin
Partly out of a rising demand for local produce, and partly because of the innovative farming methods pioneered by Eliot Coleman (The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses, The Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables From ...
Other
Maine
Our friends over at PlanetGreen recently interviewed author James McCommons about the future of passenger railroad. They wondered: is it bright?
With the doom and gloom of climate change and the frightening post-peak oil reality, it’s hard to understand why the US is so far behind the ...
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Transportation
For the past week, farm families across the country (including my own) have been rising each morning to engage in what has become our own unique, albeit macabre, Thanksgiving Tradition. We are processing our turkeys. Unlike the factory-farmed birds found in most grocery stores, these ...
Other
Turkey
Sure, Chelsea Green Publishing is the preeminent publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. Want to learn how to build your own cold frame? Be prepared for any emergency? Take action against climate change? Understand the food safety debate? We’ve got you ...
Environment
Green Grid
By David E. Gumpert
From the Community Blogs
There have been all kinds of scary headlines and stories about food safety problems. The most recent was a front-page story in the New York Times a few weeks ago about a young dance instructor who wound up paralyzed from the waist down after a bout of ...
Green Living
Hundreds of angry UCLA students gathered around the Los Angeles and Davis campuses Thursday to protest an unprecedented 32-percent undergraduate tuition hike.
The board of regents approved the increase as a way to deal with a budget shortfall, but concerned students, faculty, and staff say it ...
Other
California
The city of Denver seems to have stumbled onto an unconventional model for sustaining its struggling newspaper industry: cashing in on all those freely-flowing medical marijuana dollars. Cannabis dispensaries need to advertise. Newspapers need advertising revenue. Ergo, ipso facto, a match made ...
Other
Congratulations, James McCommons! Library Journal just named your book, Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service—A Year Spent Riding Across America, one of the best books of 2009.
Waiting on a Train is not only a beautifully written and thoroughly engrossing ...
Other
Diane Wilson continues her forty-three-day hunger strike for climate justice as she prepares to fly to Copenhagen for the international climate talks there. In this interview with What Now’s Ken Rose, Diane goes into her reasons for fasting, the indifference of a vast swath of the American ...
Environment
Climate Change
Watching helplessly as a fungus starts to take over your orchard can be a frustrating, even heartbreaking, experience—whether you have two trees or two hundred.
Apple scab is a fairly common blight. Even professional apple growers have to deal with it. What do you do when you see those ...
Green Living
Apple
Urban Revision, whose mission “is to help cities develop safe, sustainable and enriching urban blocks,” sat down with Martin Melaver, author of Living Above the Store: Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community, for a short video on his ...
Other
The following article and recipe was excerpted from Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods.
Narragansett Turkey
Named for Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, where it was first developed by early colonists, this rare standard breed ...
Other
Turkey
By Gordon (”Zola”) Edgar
In an odd twist, my annual pre-holiday cheese nightmare wasn’t about cheese at all. No—for whatever reason—I feel confident that I haven’t over-ordered this year. Maybe it’s because I don’t have to receive all the cheese myself anymore…
Still, ...
Other
By Diane Wilson
From the Community Blogs
When I talk about my reasons for going on a long hunger fast, people often look at me like I’m crazy and I’m reluctant to correct them because fasts are difficult to explain. But I will explain, again. Before the hunger strikes, my life belonged to the ...
Environment
Climate Change
There’s more to this world than just humanity. A lot more.
Here’s an interview with nature writer Sy Montgomery in which she talks about photographing animals in a natural state, absorbing local myths and folklore about the animals she studies, and teaching children to love and ...
Other
By Madeleine Kunin
From the Community Blogs.
Some 536,000 women die in pregnancy, according to the World Health Organization. That figure has not changed in 30 years, even as child mortality rates have been reduced.
How do we save those women? I found one answer in a small story in The New York ...
Green Living
Afghanistan
The documentary Collapse, Chris Smith’s character study of Michael C. Ruppert, has been called “gripping,” “riveting,” “mesmerizing.”
The force of Ruppert’s persona sustains the film, but its the ideas he present that really take center stage. ...
Other
By Mason Tvert
This article was originally published on The Huffington Post.
English pop singer Joss Stone has come under fire for highlighting the fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol, a viewpoint that has sparked intense debate this month in the UK.
As Stone told the UK Daily Mail:
Weed ...
