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According to the Rodale Institute, organic farms that use compost can sequester carbon at a rate of up to 3,200 kg/ha/yr. But compost isn't just for farms, you can compost at home! So, if you haven't already, take your food, lawn, garden waste -...Read More
Here are a couple of articles that I read today and can't help but compare and comment on: "Helping Crops Shed Pesticides" and "Gulf dead zone fix falls flat."Read More
RETRACTION: An earlier version of this article relied on documents linked above regarding the safety of thymol. It has been brought to my attention by Seventh Generation that the EPA revised its assessment of thymol this year.Read More
At ExpoEast this week, OCA joined the Teamsters and Jobs with Justice to protest Whole Foods Market and its leading supplier United Natural Foods, Inc. We startled and delighted the crowd at the 2009 Organic Spirit Awards by launching a balloon...Read More
For those of you just tuning in, what's going on is that Sigg, the maker of a hip and supposedly bisphenol A -free aluminum water bottle, recently confessed that the liners of their bottles made before August of 2008 actually do contain bisphenol...Read More
Correspondence between USDA Dep. Sec. Merrigan and organic activists on the USDA's failure to crack down on feedlot production in organic dairy and fraud in organic personal care.Read More
From the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, OCA has been tracking the opportunities for Monsanto, a well-known war profiteer (Agent Orange, Vietnam), to take advantage of the current occupations. These include pushing glyphosate (Monsanto...Read More
The US House of Representatives passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act, H.R. 2749, today. This was the second attempt to pass the bill. Representative Dingell's willingness to address the concerns of organic and small producers (raised by...Read More
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