By Mark Hertsgaard | Wired Science | April 26, 2010 | 6:28 pm
John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect Napa’s world famous wines, he gets [...]
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What Climate Change Means for Wine Industry
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New way of fish farming could help fix environment
Biologists study whether sea creatures could be used to counteract damage to ecosystems
By Randy Shore | Vancouver Sun | March 24, 2010
New designs for fish farms could keep them in the ocean and help restore damaged marine environments at the same time, says a biologist working on a five-year nationwide aquaculture project.
Marine biologists in [...]
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THE NANOTECH GAMBLE: Bold Science. Big Money. Growing Risks.
Regulated or Not, Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Near You
Second in a Three-Part Series
By Andrew Schneider | AOL Special Report | March 24, 2010
(March 24) — For centuries, it was the cook and the heat of the fire that cajoled taste, texture, flavor and aroma from the pot. Today, that culinary voodoo is being crafted [...]
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The Great Grocery Smackdown
Will Walmart, not Whole Foods, save the small farm and make America healthy?
by Corby Kummer | Atlantic Monthly | March 2010
BUY MY FOOD at Walmart? No thanks. Until recently, I had been to exactly one Walmart in my life, at the insistence of a friend I was visiting in Natchez, Mississippi, about 10 years ago. [...]
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New wine in old bottles
A European idea is catching on in Washington’s wine country: reusable bottles. It saves money and is kind to the environment.
By Harris Meyer | Crosscut.com | February 18, 2010
Wine drinkers in many Pacific Northwest towns get frustrated that there’s no place to recycle the heavy glass bottles that hold their beloved vino. In Europe, people go [...]
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A Seattle chef proves that traditional sushi and healthy oceans go hand-in-chopstick
by DARBY MINOW SMITH | grist | January 31, 2010
Growing up in small-town Montana, two things just made no sense: vegetarians and sushi. Why eat tofu, or raw fish, when you could just as easily have a big juicy steak? Coming from generations of cattle rancher stock, I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s ringing defense of [...]
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Way out front: Changing lawns to gardens to save the world
Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg looks to change the world by changing our notions about landscaping
by John Bentley Mays | The Globe And Mail | January 22, 2010
For millions of Americans and Canadians, the front lawn is a sacred place. It symbolizes home ownership quite as forcefully as the house itself does. Kept vividly green and [...]
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The 7 foods experts won’t eat
by Liz Vaccariello, Editor-in-Chief, PREVENTION (via SHINE), on Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:15am PST
How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them [...]
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Five eco-crimes we commit every day
New Scientist |01 December 2009 | by Dave S. Reay
Coffee + Toilet Paper + Fast Fashion + Laundry + Food Wastage
WHEN the UN Climate Change Conference opens in Copenhagen next month, all eyes will be on the delegates’ efforts to broker a deal that will prevent catastrophic global warming. Yet amid all the talk of [...]