Federal chemical safety system needs a complete overhaul
Kennebec Journal - 7/17/2012. Op-ed by Russell Libby – Eighteen months ago, I was diagnosed with two different forms of cancer – kidney and prostate – and I've been in a continuous medical cycle since. Generally, the doctors don't want to talk about the root causes of the diseases. I've eaten a healthy diet for decades, worked outdoors on my farm and kept in reasonably good shape. So what it is that triggered cancer in me, and not in the next person? |
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Small-scale grains: another piece of the locavore puzzle
Grist - 7/16/2012. By Rhea Kennedy – On the East Coast, Virginia’s Moutoux Orchards is growing and milling wheat and barley to nestle beside produce, dairy, eggs, and meat in its Full Diet CSA. To the west, Windborne Farm of northern California offers a grain CSA featuring not just wheat and barley, but also rare grains like teff and millet raised using a pair of draft horses. |
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A world without coral reefs
New York Times - 7/15/2012. By Roger Bradbury – It’s past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation. |
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Hopping on
Maine Sunday Telegram - 7/15/2012. By Georgina Gustin (McClatchy Newspapers) – Richwoods, Missouri: Les Nydegger bought 55 acres of rolling Missouri woodland about 15 years ago, thinking he would use the land for hunting and fishing some day. But earlier this year, after retiring from a quarter-century-long career at Anheuser-Busch, he decided he hadn't gotten quite enough of the beer business. So he cleared an acre of forest, stuck 20-foot-tall cedar poles in the ground and planted hops. |
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