USDA: Organic Crop Acreage Surges, but Economic Factors Slow Growth
From Crop Protection News, July 31, 2015, U.S. crop acreage under USDA-certified organic systems has grown since the National Organic Program was implemented in 2002, the USDA’s Economic Research...
View ArticlePeople are Developing Dementia Earlier and Dying of it More
From The Washington Post, August 6, 2015, People are developing dementia a decade before they were 20 years ago, perhaps because of environmental factors such as pollution and the stepped-up use of...
View ArticleHealthy Eaters, Strong Minds: What School Gardens Teach Kids
From Wisconsin Public Radio, August 10, 2015, School is still out for the summer, but at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C., students are hard at work — outdoors. In a garden filled with...
View ArticleOrganic farmers see green both in sustainability and profits
From Star Tribune, June 12, 2015 A new report finds that even if organic farming grows substantially, it produces more per-acre profits for farmers than conventional farming. Read full article Read...
View ArticleWisconsin would be hit hard by new rule on emissions
From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 15, 2015 State has focused on coal, not renewable energy. Wisconsin is among 10 states that must make the biggest cuts in greenhouse gases to meet the Obama...
View ArticleHow Vermont became a clean-power powerhouse
From the Christian Science Monitor, September 12, 2015. More than four decades ago, David Blittersdorf built his first wind turbine to power the lights in his sugar shack in Pittsford, Vt., where he...
View ArticleNew Map Proves (Again) How Important Trees are to Modern Life
From The Weather Channel, August 26, 2015. Tree “sweat” may just be the most important factor in determining how hot your city will get this summer. The urban heat island, a dome of elevated...
View Article25 Fast Food Chains Ranked on Antibiotics Usage: Only Chipotle and Panera get...
From Time, September 15, 2015. Antibiotic resistance is one of the top five health threats facing Americans,according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 2 million...
View ArticleCities bear rising cost of keeping water safe to drink
From Associated Press, September 26, 2015. Standing at the edge of the Great Lakes, the world’s largest surface source of fresh water, this city of 280,000 seems immune from the water-supply problems...
View ArticleFarm worker pesticide rules tightened
From Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday established the first minimum-age requirement — 18 — for farm workers applying pesticides to fields.The change...
View ArticleA Dangerous Cycle in Food Production
From the New York Time, October 19, 2015 – From coffee to cocoa, and almonds to blueberries, some of the world’s most nutritionally and economically vital food crops are vulnerable to declines caused...
View ArticleUnder Court Order, EPA Proposes Ban on Dow Pesticide
From Bloomberg BNA, October 20, 2015 – Under the threat of a court order, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a ban on all agricultural uses of the Dow AgroSciences insecticide...
View ArticleObesogens: Low doses of environmental chemicals can make animals gain weight....
From The Scientist, November 1, 2015 – In 2005, Mike Skinner’s group at Washington State University published a disturbing observation: pregnant rats exposed to high levels of a commonly used fungicide...
View ArticleCDC finds mounting evidence of risk to coffee workers
From the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, November 3, 2015 – Nearly a dozen more workers at a Texas coffee roasting plant are thought to have lung disease tied to dangerous chemicals — tripling...
View ArticleSafe, clean water eludes many in state; Lax enforcement, outdated rules and...
From the postcrescent.com – In this place, hundreds of thousands of people face the specter of drinking water from wells that is unsafe, tainted by one or more contaminants such as arsenic or nitrate....
View ArticleNeonicotinoid Pesticides Make Bees Worse Pollinators
From Popular Science, November 18, 2015 – Bees live up to their busy reputation. These insects are responsible for pollinating $15 billion worth of crops in the United States. But bee populations have...
View ArticleFarm worker pesticide rules tightened
From Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday established the first minimum-age requirement — 18 — for farm workers applying pesticides to fields.The change...
View ArticleGetting Ugly Produce Onto Tables So It Stays Out of Trash
From the New York Time, November 23, 2015 – The eggplants are crooked and a little long-necked, contorted enough that they would probably lose in a beauty pageant against rounder or more symmetrical...
View ArticlePutting the Chicken Before the Egg
From the New York Times, November 23, 2015 – A decade ago, a couple running a dairy business in Northern California visited a Mennonite farm where the owner had used a flock of laying hens to teach his...
View ArticleThis common farm pesticide could be damaging the lungs of young children
From the Washington Post, December 3, 2015 – A common type of pesticide could have damaging effects on the lungs of young children, a new study suggests — and that could lead to more serious health...
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