boston.com - 12/30/2008
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Can a community organizer from Chicago support community supported agriculture?
thenation.com - 12/26/2008
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thenation.com —
By proposing a $100 billion "green stimulus" package
to create jobs and cut carbon emissions, President-elect Obama...
has wisely decided not to let the economic crisis get in the way of addressing climate change. He may even see the crisis as a way of ...
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A Green Stimulus for the People
guardian.co.uk - 1/3/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Current approaches to deal with climate change are
ineffectual, one of the world's top climate scientists said...
today in a personal new year appeal to Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on the urgent need to tackle global warming. With less than ...
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Nasa's James Hansen warns Barack Obama on climate change
biz.yahoo.com - 12/23/2008
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biz.yahoo.com —
Despite praising it publicly, the energy industry is
wary of President-elect Barack Obama's incoming energy team which...
will likely call for major changes in the country's energy plan. When Barack Obama announced his energy and environmental staff last ...
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Energy's take on Team Obama: Financial News - Yahoo!
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Digest - News: Organic fertilizer faked, UK farmers want organic “holiday,” Obama wishlists
The Ethicurean —
... America eats thought they had found their St. Nicholas.” People like Iowa activist Dave Murphy and pig farmer and porkpreneur Paul Willis (right), who gathered 50,000 signatures begging for a reform-minded Secretary of Agriculture only to get a lump of coal former Iowa gov Tom Vilsack instead. Because sustainable ag dreams aside, there’s nothing indicating that Obama really wants to remake how food is grown and sold. (New York Times) (Boston Globe has a similar piece)
A billion begging bellies: Despite the ...
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Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... • At the Boston Globe, op-ed columnist Derek Z. Jackson wonders if "a sustainable food strategy [is] on Obama's menu?" This has been a pretty standard line of inquiry lately -- New York Times food reporter Kim Severson ...
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