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The solutions are out there, just waiting for us to embrace them. As we get ready to say goodbye and good riddance to a difficult decade, now’s the time to chart the course of the next one. It doesn’t have to be the Terrible Teens. We’re all in this together, so let’s christen it the “We” decade, and get to work. The big picture is that we’ve got an awfully small window.

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Eating locally grown food makes sense for many reasons, not least of which is that we need to be conscious of lowering our carbon footprint however we can.

But to be a strict locavore has consequences that may cause untold suffering to the family of man beyond the hundred-mile locavore limit.

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In an ongoing David versus Goliath legal battle, Frank Morton, an organic seed breeder in Philomath, Oregon, along with the plaintiffs listed in this lawsuit, have successfully sued the USDA and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), for failure to require an environmental impact statement (EIS) prior to deregulation of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beet plant. In the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled on September 21, 2009 in favor of the plaintiffs— Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, Sierra Club, and High Mowing Organic Seeds— requiring that APHIS prepare an environmental impact statement, and setting in place the remedy phase of the trial, scheduled to begin today (December 4) to decide the fate of next year’s transgenic sugar beet crop.

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The 2007 Dutch documentary Meat the Truth was the first of its kind. Meat the Truth took an in-depth look at the environmental impact of wide scale meat production at a time when most people still attributed greenhouse gasses to cars. Last week, it was featured at Klimaforum 09, held during the Copenhagen Climate Summit. In honor of the Summit, we spoke with the documentary’s producer, Monique van Dijk Armor.

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Last week, when a few news organizations ran away with the (non)-story of a “Danish text” supposedly leaked last week in Copenhagen that gave excess leniency to rich nations and too little support to poor ones, it was met with anguish by many, but not so much with surprise.
Events at the Copenhagen Summit have been [...]

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Consider expressing your inner green Santa by sending bounty to one or more of these worthy causes.

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At the massive global climate meeting taking place this week in Copenhagen, agriculture has played a largely secondary role. Negotiators seem most eager to put off the tough questions on agriculture until next year (see IATP’s Anne Laure Constantin’s report). But at a conference a short distance from the Bella Center (where the climate talks are taking place) agriculture was on everyone’s lips. And the results were both encouraging and troubling.

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Joshua Rosenthal is the founder and director of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Integrative Nutrition is the world’s largest nutrition school, training students to become certified health counselors since 1992. It is the only school that teaches over 100 dietary theories, combining the knowledge of traditional philosophies with modern concepts.

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Fix-ated on the Wrong Solutions? This week, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a new report called No Sure Fix on the ability (or lack thereof) of biotechnology to decrease the abuse of nitrogen fertilizers.
Local Going Global Check out this cool new collection of local business case studies from BALLE and the Wallace Center, which [...]

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Get rich quick! Lose weight fast! We squander billions each year on scams that promise easy money and effortless weight loss. Still, the pounds pile up, the money doesn’t, and our tanking bank balances and spiking weight distract us from the more remote, abstract problem of climate change.

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