Soil Erosion & Contamination
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The Woes of Industrial Agriculture
Our relationship with the earth changed fundamentally when we began practicing agriculture some ten thousand years ago. The transition from…
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The Downfall of the Plastic Bag: A Global Picture
by Janet Larsen and Savina Venkova Worldwide, a trillion single-use plastic bags are used each year, nearly 2 million each…
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Sandbar Cropping in Bangladesh
Bangladesh, home for one of the largest deltas in the world, is facing the adverse effects of climate change with…
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Plastic Bag Bans Spreading in the United States
by Janet Larsen and Savina Venkova, Earth Policy Institute Los Angeles rang in the 2014 New Year with a ban…
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Center for Food Safety Sues the USDA for Release of Missing Documents to Explain Suspicious GMO Alfalfa Approval
by Shicana Allen On March 13, 2014, the nonprofit Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit against the USDA,…
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Cheap Oil Begets the Centralization of Power
The oil age allowed us to do the wrong things with unprecedented speed and efficiency. Oil is an almost ideal…
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To the Last Drop: Canada’s Dirty Oil Sands (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61X4IQqnmd0 Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8m5PFuYRSI Part II Residents of one Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style battle over…
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Keystone PipeLIES Exposed
Keystone PipeLIES Exposed (Duration: 23 minutes) This film, produced by the Center for Media and Democracy, debunks the claims of…
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The 2014 Food Revolution Summit – Get the Truth About GMOs (Online, April 26 – May 4, 2014)
Get the truth about GMOs and dangerous chemicals — and how carbs, gluten, fat, and sugar affect your weight, energy,…
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Bioremediation of Industrial Pollution – Utilizing Fungi, Bacteria, and Plants to Reduce Oil Pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin and the World
Natural resource exploitation affects almost every corner of the earth, and the extraction of crude oil is just one excessive…
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Sri Lanka Partially Bans Glyphosate for Deadly Kidney Disease Epidemic
Glyphosate’s metal-chelating activity causes bioaccumulation of toxic metals in the body, resulting in an estimated 400 000 cases in Sri…
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Food Feudalism and the Invention of the Wilderness
Humans, in this current form, have been around for about 100,000 years. Until agriculture went mainstream about 10,000 years ago,…
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