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If you've visited your local feed dealer or veterinarian recently, or read any of the dozens of livestock or poultry magazines targeted at small farmers, you probably already know what "NAIS" stands for. The National Animal Identification System is arguably the most hated federal program in rural America. The plan, released in draft form in April 2005 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), proposed sweeping changes in the way animals are managed on small farms and homesteads.
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Questions from Grist Editors
Q: What work do you do?
A: I am the president of T.S. Designs.
Q: How does it relate to the environment?
A: We provide the highest-quality, most-sustainable printed T-shirts on the market. We define that as being made of organic cotton or other sustainable fibers, manufactured in the U.S., and printed and dyed with our environmentally friendly REHANCE process. We also want to be an example of a successful triple-bottom-line business.
Q: What work do you do?
A: I am the president of T.S. Designs.
Q: How does it relate to the environment?
A: We provide the highest-quality, most-sustainable printed T-shirts on the market. We define that as being made of organic cotton or other sustainable fibers, manufactured in the U.S., and printed and dyed with our environmentally friendly REHANCE process. We also want to be an example of a successful triple-bottom-line business.
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Excerpted from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. By Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, May 2007)
Farming is not for everybody; increasingly, it's hardly for anybody. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the life's work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
Farming is not for everybody; increasingly, it's hardly for anybody. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the life's work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
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This is the followup 49-100 peak oil tools as written by Sharon Astyk. To read tips #1-49 read here
49. Invite someone new to your house once every month. Try and expand your community and circle of friends regularly. Invite people to eat with you regularly - sharing food is an important part of community building.
49. Invite someone new to your house once every month. Try and expand your community and circle of friends regularly. Invite people to eat with you regularly - sharing food is an important part of community building.
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Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:
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Wal-Mart is such a dominating force that when it enters a market, few rivals are left unscathed. But in the tiny town of Emo, Ont. - population, 1,186 - grocers Dan and Mark Loney found a formula for their store to take on the discount titan.
And they're doing it with Wal-Mart's own products.
And they're doing it with Wal-Mart's own products.
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VOTING ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php
Cast your vote and send your message to Congress at the same time!
Cast your vote and send your message to Congress at the same time!
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From: OCA's Press Release: Horizon Organic Ignored OCA's Offer to End Milk Boycott
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4590.cfm
WASHINGTON, DC- The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) will step up efforts to promote its boycott against Horizon Organic (a subsidiary of Dean Foods and a supplier to Wal-Mart) after talks through a mediator failed to produce any resolution. Since the Natural Products Expo East held in Baltimore in October of 2006, OCA has worked through Michael
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4590.cfm
WASHINGTON, DC- The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) will step up efforts to promote its boycott against Horizon Organic (a subsidiary of Dean Foods and a supplier to Wal-Mart) after talks through a mediator failed to produce any resolution. Since the Natural Products Expo East held in Baltimore in October of 2006, OCA has worked through Michael
Forbes
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Whole-grain crackers, low-fat yogurt, fruit and water could become the school snacks of the future, driving out fattening fancies such as cola and fried chips.
The Institute of Medicine on Wednesday recommended new standards for school snacks and foods that sharply would limit calories, fat and sugar while encouraging more nutritious eating.
Concerned about the rise of obesity in young people, Congress asked the institute to develop the standards. Law now will consider them, as will state and local school officials.
The Institute of Medicine on Wednesday recommended new standards for school snacks and foods that sharply would limit calories, fat and sugar while encouraging more nutritious eating.
Concerned about the rise of obesity in young people, Congress asked the institute to develop the standards. Law now will consider them, as will state and local school officials.
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I HAVE GIVEN NEARLY ONE THOUSAND TALKS ABOUT the environment in the past fifteen years, and after every speech a smaller crowd gathered to talk, ask questions, and exchange business cards. The people offering their cards were working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. They were from the nonprofit and nongovernmental world, also known as civil society.
