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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...
All STORIES in Sustainable Food
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Australian Organic Farm Cross Contaminated With GM Crop
A certified organic grain farmer in Australia, Mr. Stephen Marsh, has recently discovered that nearly 70% of his organi...
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Wikileaks Reveals US Supports GMOs and Counteracts Sustainable Agriculture Abroad
One of the many US embassy cables recently made public via Wikileaks chronicles conversations around sustainable food i...
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Sustainable Agriculture & GMOs
When talking about sustainable agriculture and genetically modified (GM)/ genetically engineered (GE) organisms, the de...
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Genetically Modified Crops & You
Genetically modified organisms (also sometimes called "genetically engineered organisms, or simply genetically engineer...
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Worldwatch Institute Reports Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Recently the Worldwatch Institute released its 2011 State of the World Report, Nourishing the Planet, which focuses on...
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What the 2011 Census Says about Sustainable Food
Ok. So in reality the 2010 census doesn't really say much of anything about sustainable food per se, but it does show a...
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Organic Food: Integrative Pest Management
Organic food is food grown within a certain set of conditions, most notably without genetically modified seed and witho...
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Food Safety: Protecting Organic Food Against Pesticides
While food safety regulations don't necessarily discriminate against non-organic food grown with the heavy use of pesti...
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Environmental Sustainability: 2008 Farm Bill Side-by-Side
Environmental sustainability isn't just something we should want; it's something we should demand. And the 2008 Farm Bi...
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Environmental Sustainability: Real Numbers of the BP Oil Spill
Environmental sustainability in the Gulf of Mexico has never been more important than now, when nobody is really talkin...
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Top 5 Sustainable Food Trends in 2011
This may just be speculation, or wishful thinking, but I believe 2011 will be prove to be a year of all sorts of new ...
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Sustainable Food: Rhode Island Rye
Rhode Island, the littlest state with a highly agrarian populace, is making a new case for sustainable food: Rye flour....
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Soybeans and Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is more deeply rooted in methods of permaculture than industrial farming; many of our l...
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The Perennial Plate: An Exercise in Sustainable Food
Sustainable food is super trendy these days, and we're all the better for it. Forerunners like Michael Pollan or Eric S...
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Sustainable Agriculture Introduces The Pecanigator
Part of making agriculture a more sustainable practice is reconsidering conventional methodologies and reinvesting in t...
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Innovative Education Programs Support Sustainable Agriculture and New Farmers
As interest in and dedication to sustainable agriculture grows, so must the infrastructure to support the further devel...
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USDA Starts Carcass Composing Program
The USDA has put together a program helping to dispose of large animal roadkill in rural areas, with its pilot program...
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GMOs: What Are They?
For many people the definition of a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is veiled at best. The terms GMO and Geneticall...
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Organic Food: GMO Alfalfa is Still on the Menu
Organic Food Today put out a press release that talks about the court's decision to deregulate Genetically Modified...
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Breaking Barriers: A New Dialogue Begins in Sustainable Food
It has long been the gripe of many food justice non-profits and advocates: sustainable food is largely marketed to and...
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