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An app for would-be vegetable growers that helps you choose which veggies you can plant today in your region, how to go about it and how to cook them up once they’re ready to pick. Fresh vegetables never go out of season and growing your own ensures ultimate freshness and nutritional benefits, not to mention […]

Dolphins and whales have been washing up dead along the northern Gulf of Mexico in alarmingly high numbers.

Rising population numbers throw a harsh light on the global need for health care and the growing problem of resource depletion.

October is proving a busy month for the country’s old guard food industries. After a decade of books and documentaries exposing the more unsavory aspects of how our food is produced, Big Ag and consumer brand companies are striking back with campaigns aimed at quelling the country’s growing disaffection with CAFO-raised beef, fake “fruit” snacks […]

umich.edu Along the southeast corner of Lake Michigan, near the coastal town of Saugatuck, Michigan, lies a line of snowy, pristine freshwater sand dunes up to 240 feet in height. I have yet to see the dunes myself, but they are said to be spectacular. Of them poet Carl Sandburg wrote: “Those dunes are to […]

Is overuse of nano-silver in products contributing to a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria and allergy rates?

A conflict of interest in environmental permitting for the Keystone XL pipeline makes it an even bigger political hot potato.

Melinda Tuhus I took the train from New Haven, Connecticut, to New York City on October 5, for the big rally called Occupy Wall Street (OWS) that’s supported by labor unions across the city. On a picture-perfect fall day, thousands gathered in Foley Square near City Hall. While OWS organizers and union leaders exhorted the […]