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On Dec. 4, 2011, 120 designers, data scientists, developers, marketing professionals, food policy experts, and USDA employees, participated in Food+Tech Connect's Farm Bill Hackathon. Here's one account.
Heroic Endeavors: Testing the Waters – Riverkeeper Watches Over Hudson River Water Quality
Join Riverkeeper Boat Captain John Lipscomb and Carol Knudson from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory as they put Hudson River water quality to the test.
Why It’s Possible to Kill Fewer Fish and Still Keep the Lights On
Keeping blackouts at bay is no doubt a stressful job. But a new NERC report is wrong in finding that cooling water rules could threaten grid reliability.
Dear McRib, Word on the street is that you have been discontinued, again. Is it true? I’ve been trying to avoid you, but you are on TV, blogs, websites, newspapers... everywhere. People love you and I don’t understand why.
A few weeks ago Congress dismissed the USDA's healthy school lunch reform proposals and decided to count pizza sauce as a vegetable. Sound ridiculous? It is.
Quietly, the Delaware River Basin Commission Blocks Fracking Water Withdrawals in New York
With little public attention, two significant decisions came out of a follow up to a previously canceled meeting on hydraulic fracturing held by the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC).
In which our intrepid intern, Margaret Riche, recounts last weekend's Farmers' March on Wall Street, an event that united farmers, community gardeners, advocates and occupiers in addressing the corporate stranglehold on our food system.
Heroic Endeavors: Groundwork Somerville (Environmentalism, Urban Community Style)
Other environmentalists, community advocates and urban planners should take note of the community-minded, enviromental non-profit, Groundwork Somerville, who's work has truly helped transform the city of Somerville, Massachusetts.
According to a new report by the Environmental Working Group, an assessment of 84 popular children’s breakfast cereals revealed that only one in four meets the voluntary dietary guidelines proposed by the federal Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children.
Researcher and UC Irvine Professor Jay Famiglietti discusses the implications of groundwater depletion rates, as observed by NASA's GRACE satellite.
