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Focus on Food: Growing a Local, Sustainable Supply Chain
There was a time when grain for bread was grown and milled locally in Southern Ontario. But that tradition has long past, forcing Toronto-based bakery Stonemill Bakehouse to source the ingredients for its healthy artisanal breads from Western Canada, the U.S. or even abroad. When the bakery looked at their carbon footprint they found that transporting ingredients to their facility in the Greater Toronto Area was their second biggest source of emissions. The company's solution is something not every food-related business is currently attempting: bakery owner Gottfried Boehringer has purchased a 100-acre farm in Prince Edward County, Onta...
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Utz Snacks Steps Into Organic
A few days ago, I went to my local "natural" market, whose quotations only exist for the fact that it carries a good am...
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Bayview Greenwaste Lays the Foundation for Sustainable Urban Agriculture
San Francisco isn't the only city in the U.S. in the midst of a sustainable urban agricultural revolution, but it's def...
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Mars Attempts Sustainability on the Big Scale
_(Hear what Mars has to say for themselves at __the __Certification, Consumption, and Change Conference__, on April 5t...
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Fair Trade on the Table
(_Fair Trade USA will be featured at the Certification, Consumption, and Change Conference, on April 5th at the Nation...
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Effects Of Glyphosate
Glyphosate is the primary ingredient to Monsanto's best selling herbicide, RoundUp. Conveniently and somehow without st...
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Endangered Species Chocolate: Impressive Business Model
Cacao is an enormous industry. Because cacao is a tropical crop, non-tropical countries have an added responsibility to...
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USDA's National Organic Program And GMOs
In a somewhat recent interview with Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator for the USDA's National Organic Program, he mad...
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Equal Exchange: Fair Trade Is A Movement, Not A Brand
_(Rodney North__, The Answer Man, employee-owner, font-size: 13px;">_Certification, Consumption, and Change Conference...
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US Ethanol Production Raises Food Prices and Deters Sustainable Agriculture
Industrial corn production is a thorn in the side of sustainable agriculture in the US, hand in hand with CAFOs, soybea...
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Seattle Leads the Way Towards National Sustainable Food Policy
When it comes to national food policy, the Farm Bill is arguably the most impactful and important piece of legislation....
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Real Time Farms.Com Connects the Dots
In the sustainable food realm, it's all about connecting the dots and being able to trace where food comes from. The ta...
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If You Can Read This, You Probably Can Afford Organic.
Before we can have a real discussion about why one should spend the extra cost associated with organic food, one must d...
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The Ripple Effect Of Consumerism
In our economy, every single action we put forth reverberates globally. We all live in an enclosed system of atmosphere...
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Baby Steps To Sustainability
Since the mid eighteenth- century, many countries have sought to streamline daily routines into marketable little packa...
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The Importance Of Organics
Over the last few months I have been spending a lot of time defending the reasons why we should purchase organically gr...
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GMOs And Organics: A Potentially Complicated Relationship
So now that our government has completely deregulated genetically modified alfalfa, and as both studies and case report...
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Sustainable Food Starts with Organic Seeds
In the aftershock of Vilsack's GM Alfalfa decision, which poses a daunting threat to the integrity of sustainable agric...
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This Valentine's Day, Love Tastes Like Sustainable Chocolate
Visions of Valentine's Day conjure up images of decandent food and red wine, and of course lots and lots of chocolate,...
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New Effort in Taiwan to Make Raising Pigs More Environmentally Sustainable
Pigs are not one of the most environmentally sustainable animals to raise in large numbers. The dreaded and still ubiqu...
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Can Biotech Companies Provide Sustainable Food Options?
Pesticides and herbicides are poisons, no matter how a person wants to slice it. So far, biotech companies have institu...
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