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Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, the filmmakers who fondly documented their brief stint as Iowa corn farmers in King Corn, explore agribiz’s downstream downside in Big River. In this thirty-minute sequel, Cheney and Ellis revisit their Iowa acre and trace its toxic trail all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Here at home, supporters of industrial agriculture are alarmed by the prospect of having to curb their carbon footprint. And commodity crop farmers are reportedly feeling betrayed by the USDA’s new-found support for small-scale, sustainable agriculture.

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It’s a good thing Michelle Obama’s arms are so fabulously fit, because she’s just signed on to do some serious heavy lifting. At Tuesday’s White House launch of the Let’s Move campaign, the First Lady declared her ambition to end childhood obesity within a generation:
I don’t want our kids to live diminished lives because we [...]

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With unemployment in the dismal double digits, there’s a lot of chanting and ranting about jobs right now. China’s cleaning our clock when it comes to clean tech, even as its growth continues to rely on dirty ol’ coal. And so does ours, for that matter. The difference is that China’s forging ahead with [...]

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The term “activist designer” may sound kind of funny to those of us who associate designers with swanky showrooms and high-end hedonism. But there’s a growing cadre of designers, architects, and do-it-yourselfers whose clientele is the citizens of the world, instead of the privileged few.
They’re pooling their tremendous talents through a non-profit organization called Project [...]

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(With a click of her mouse, Kerry Trueman, aka Eating Liberally’s kat, corners Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU professor of nutrition and author of Pet Food Politics, What to Eat and Food Politics)
Kat: New York City’s new initiative to persuade food manufacturers and restaurants to voluntarily reduce the salt in their foods by 25% over the [...]

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Unfortunately, this approach to “aid” has compelled thousands of Haitians to migrate to overcrowded slums and work in miserable conditions. It also left them vulnerable to fluctuations in the global food supply recently, when rising fuel costs and droughts drove up the price of rice.

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Will 2010 be the year that real food triumphs over “edible foodlike substances?” I don’t want to get overly optimistic, but real food certainly had a good first week, at least on cable TV.
On Monday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart kicked off the new decade by inviting Michael Pollan on to discuss his latest book, [...]

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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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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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