November 21, 2011
News
State officials are plowing ahead with new rules on how and when farmers can fertilize their fields, despite last-minute objections from environmentalists that the proposed limits have been weakened in an apparent bid to mollify agricultural... Read more
November 9, 2011
News
A new puppet's in town! His name is Karden, and according to his PR, he shows kids how much fun gardening can be. What parents and teachers aren't told is that he is actually a marketing tool for sewage sludge merchant Kellogg Garden Products. Read more
October 14, 2011
News
This week, CMD's new Food Rights Network sent letters to thirteen schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that have "organic" school gardens adopted by Hollywood's Environmental Media Association (EMA). As we reported in May,... Read more
October 14, 2011
News
When wastewater treatment plants discharge treated water into rivers and lakes, they can also pass along antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their resistance genes, according to a new study Read more
August 4, 2011
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In the past few decades, intensive corporatization of farming has threatened both the future of family farming and the ability of neighbors to regulate the development of industrial agricultural operations that have transmogrified many farms into... Read more
July 7, 2011
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The Food Rights Network asked people to join in calling on the Environmental Media Association (EMA) to stop greenwashing sewage sludge, and Joan Dye Gussow, best-selling author of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, signed... Read more
June 15, 2011
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People have used human waste for thousands of years to fertilize cropland and gardens. In comparison, federal regulations for using such "biosolids" on land are young: They have been in effect for about 30 years. Read more
May 19, 2011
News
Today, the nation's major sustainable food writers and bloggers will converge on Monterey, CA for an incredible invite-only sustainable food conference. The event, Monterey Bay Aquarium's Cooking for Solutions, which those who attend say is... Read more
May 8, 2011
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For a non-actress surrounded by movie stars, Debbie Levin, President of the Environmental Media Association (EMA) - an organization founded by Norman Lear - is putting on quite a performance of her own. Too bad it's more likely to win her a fraud... Read more
May 6, 2011
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Do you want everything that goes down your drain winding up on your backyard produce? Well that's what happens to those who use organic compost made with municipal sewage. Read more
