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Bee Killers Sponsor National Pollinator Week (And 3 Ways They Are Killing Bees)

Bee Killers Sponsor National Pollinator Week (And 3 Ways They Are Killing Bees)

Concerned about the bees and the butterflies? Interested in celebrating National Pollinator Week? It’s happening next week, June 16-22. And it’s brought to you, in part, by none other than Monsanto and Bayer. New York March Against Monsanto. Glynnis Jones / Shutterstock.com In 2007, the U.S. Senate designated a week in June as National Pollinator […]

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    Big Food Freaking Out About ‘Fed Up’

    Big Food Freaking Out About ‘Fed Up’

    If you search for “Fed Up movie” on Google, the first link you see is not the film’s website, but rather a page from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) called “Fed Up Facts.” It’s a silly and desperate attempt by Big Food to respond to the star-power that has Katie Couric appearing all over the […]

    National Organic Standards Board Meeting Report: Winners and Losers

    National Organic Standards Board Meeting Report: Winners and Losers

    Recently, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) disrupted the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting to protest a move by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP) that makes it more difficult for the NOSB to phase out synthetic and non-organic materials from organic food. U.S. growers exporting to the European Union comply […]

    NY Times Editorial Board Delivers a ‘Prudent’ Message of Nuclear Abandonment

    NY Times Editorial Board Delivers a ‘Prudent’ Message of Nuclear Abandonment

    In support of the dying nuclear power industry, the New York Times Editorial Board has penned an inadvertent epitaph.  Appearing in the May 2 edition, The Right Lessons from Chernobyl twists and stumbles around the paper’s own reporting. Though unintended, it finally delivers a “prudent” message of essential abandonment. The Times does concede that “The […]

    Breaking: 7 Washington University Students Arrested Protesting Peabody Coal

    Breaking: 7 Washington University Students Arrested Protesting Peabody Coal

    On the heels of an earlier arrest of a student at a growing divestment blockade at Harvard University, seven Washington University students were arrested today in St. Louis, as they sought to enter the quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees. Today’s action followed a historic 17-day sit-in at the St. Louis campus, where hundreds of Washington University students have joined in a […]

    Saving the World One Farm at a Time

    Saving the World One Farm at a Time

    This Earth Day we saw a global community in crisis. A terrifying climate trend that has the American people … yawning? A recent poll shows people nearly across the board rate climate change near the bottom of their lists of problems facing the nation. Why? Climate is big, intangible and hard to wrap our brains […]

    10 Reasons Consumers Buy Organic

    10 Reasons Consumers Buy Organic

    The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), in a series of action alerts over the past month, has criticized the gradual erosion of organic standards by vested corporate interests in the organic products industry. OCA, a nationwide watchdog organization set up to safeguard organic standards 16 years ago, and its allies in the organic community are calling […]

    3 Trends That Will Revolutionize How We Use Products

    3 Trends That Will Revolutionize How We Use Products

    Imagine this. You are in a not so distant future. From where you are sitting on your couch, your life looks the same. But at a closer look, things have changed a bit. First of all, the couch is not exactly yours. You rent it from a furniture company until you’re ready for an update. […]