Universal Food Stamps? Why More Food Stamp Recipients Prove the Failure of the Industrial Food System
sharonastyk.com 1/5/2009 — http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090103/NEWS02/901030330/0/SPORTS I think the above is an important story, one that demonstrates an increasing shift in our society’s relationship to its food. Vermont’s policy change on food stamps ...

A Nation of Farmers: Is Vermont Doing Its Share?
energybulletin.net 7/29/2009 — New York state author, blogger , and homesteader Sharon Astyk discusses her new book, A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil . Astyk sees the energy shortages of peak oil hitting us and our food system now, and she argues ...

All tapped out
wwwp.dailyclimate.org 4/8/2009 — Daily Climate: All farming depends on the weather, but few foods are more dependent on a specific climate than maple syrup. After all, for the sugar maple's sap to run at all requires cooperative weather -- freezing nights followed by warmer days. But ...

Zero Emissions?
theenergycollective.com 3/18/2009 — The other day I ran across reports of a curious event, in which the Attorney General of the state of Vermont convinced Entergy , which owns or operates 11 of the nation's 104 active nuclear power plants , to back away from characterizing nuclear power as having zero emissions. Technically, of ...

Miss Vermont Goes With "Green" Gown - News- msnbc.com
msnbc.msn.com 1/6/2009 — COLCHESTER, Vt. - Miss Vermont will be wearing a green dress when she walks out on stage at the Miss America Pageant on Jan. 24. But, Ashley Ruth Wheeler is not talking about the hue of her dress. It's an environmentally friendly gown made from hemp, ...

Wind and Solar Entrepreneurs Arrange a Sales Call on the Vermont Legislature Starring Helen Caldicott
theenergycollective.com 4/10/2009 — Yesterday, the Vermont Legislature warmly received a non-nuclear energy salesperson and allowed her to continue her traditional tactic of emotionally telling negative stories about the competition. I know, that is a purposely provocative way to describe the event, but that is certainly one ...

FTC finds no evidence of illegal activity after investigation of Western New York gasoline prices
theenergycollective.com 7/21/2009 — Apparently you just have to know who to ask. Yesterday, the FTC sent me a copy of the FTC letter to Representative Brian Higgins describing the agency’s investigation of Western New York gasoline prices last fall. (For background see this earlier post and here .) Be aware that here begins a ...

Students dig into sustainable farming at Vermont college
usatoday.com 7/14/2009 — While other college students are in stuffy classrooms, about a dozen are earning credit tending a Vermont farm. For 13 weeks, 12 credits and about $12,500, the Green Mountain College students plow fields with oxen or horses, milk cows, weed crops and ...

Vermont FITs Become Law: The Mouse That Roared
renewableenergyworld.com 6/1/2009 — Vermont's feed-in tariff legislation became law at the end of business on May 27, 2009. H. 446 is the first legislation calling for a full system of advanced renewable tariffs in the US to pass the legislature and become law. The bill includes ...

Vermont Small Businesses Stay Sustainable Amid Crisis
triplepundit.com 8/12/2009 — By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing Vermont has a long history of birthing sustainable businesses. Perhaps it’s because of values seeping in from rural farms who still operate outside of the corporate world, or perhaps it’s ...

Pollan hopes for star farmers, more local food — Scientific American - Environment
Bestselling food author and backyard naturalist Michael Pollan says that for the first time in decades, farms in the U.S. are on the rise. Since the 1940s, the number of farms across the country has been in steady decline, as ag giants gobble up ...

Sales of organic food slump by up to 30 per cent — The Independent - Environment RSS Feed
Demand for organic food has fallen faster than expected, according to new statistics about shoppers' habits. Consumers who were once prepared to pay a premium for organic produce are turning to cheaper alternatives, cutting sales by a fifth in the ...