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October 14, 2011
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
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October 14, 2011
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
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August 4, 2011
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
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July 7, 2011
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
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June 15, 2011
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
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May 19, 2011
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
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May 8, 2011
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
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May 6, 2011
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
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May 3, 2011
A story has been developing over the past month involving lies, toxic sludge, Hollywood celebrities, and poor, inner city school children. It centers around the Environmental Media Association (EMA), a group of environmentally conscious Hollywood... Read more
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May 1, 2011
Guess what today is? You might guess May Day and, well, you'd be right. But it's also the#first day of International Compost Awareness Week! Woohoo! And... you lucky reader of this blog you... yours truly has been hired by the Center for Media and... Read more
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