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Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zernposted Jan 30, 2013 - It’s organic. It’s local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?
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You Are Where You Live
by Susan Griffinposted Jan 30, 2013 - How the sky, rain, geography, and cultures of our place shape us.
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Students to Colleges: Take Our Money Out of Dirty Energy
by Sachie Hopkins-Hayakawaposted Jan 29, 2013 - A divestment campaign led by students is changing the national conversation about energy, creating a market for sustainable stocks, and linking up students with communities facing off against the fossil fuel industry.
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Why I Returned My Queen Elizabeth Medal of Honor
by Maude Barlowposted Jan 28, 2013 - A letter to Canada’s Governor General explains why Maude Barlow–together with Idle No More–are speaking out against the country’s new environmental rules.
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Food or Ethanol? Why Farmers Shouldn’t Give in to Monocrops
by Shannon Hayesposted Jan 25, 2013 - It’s a good time to be in farming if you like to grow corn. It’s a tough time if you see yourself as a steward of the land. Shannon Hayes on why growers pressured by corn-heavy markets should hold out for crops that nourish the Earth.
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What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
by Frances Moore Lappéposted Jan 25, 2013 - Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
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How President Obama Can Turn Climate Speech Into Action
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jan 21, 2013 - Many were surprised to hear President Barack Obama take up climate change at today’s inaugural address. Here are a few ways the president can seize the moment and transform our approach to climate action.
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Ta’Kaiya Blaney on First Nations: “We’re Awake and We’re Standing Up”
posted Jan 18, 2013 - Video: She’s only 11 years old, but she’s already been working for environmental justice for a few years now. Here, she addresses the crowd at an Idle No More event in British Columbia.
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What Would a Down-to-Earth Economy Look Like?
by David Kortenposted Jan 17, 2013 - How did we end up with Wall Street when models for a healthy economy are all around us?
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7 Ways to Find Your Wild Side (Start With a Nap)
by Shannan Stoll, Fabien Tepper, Valerie Schloredtposted Jan 17, 2013 - Color like a butterfly, eat like an ancient healer, and other ways to rediscover your inner wildness.
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Book Review: Inside Will Allen’s Good Food Revolution
by Laura Kaliebeposted Jan 16, 2013 - Like growing vegetables from seed to harvest, overhauling the country's food system takes time.
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Meet the Youngest Member of the Tiny House Movement
posted Jan 11, 2013 - This 16-year-old is building himself a future free from mortgage payments, not to mention college accommodations that are a bit homier than your average dorm room.
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Welcome to Blockadia!
by Melanie Jae Martin, Jesse Fruhwirthposted Jan 11, 2013 - The corporate push to construct tar-sands pipelines is transforming the environmental movement across North America by increasing the involvement of local residents and normalizing the use of direct action.
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Idle No More Rises to Defend Ancestral Lands—and the Planet
by Bill McKibbenposted Jan 10, 2013 - Bill McKibben on the tradition of environmental activism he’s seen among members of First Nations, and the unique role of the Idle No More movement in the fight against climate change.
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Looking for an Earth-Friendly Source of Fish? Try Barn-Raised
by Katherine Gustafsonposted Jan 03, 2013 - Aquaponics takes advantage of nature’s processes to fill Americans’ growing appetite for fish—without overfishing or destructive farming.
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