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Water: Why We Squander It…
By Shermakaye Bass When legislators cross party lines and governors publicly plead for water reform, you know the country’s water crunch has reached a new degree of direness. And yet, some...
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By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Recent research on potatoes showed that low levels of herbicides, which did not result in obvious damage to the plants above ground, negatively affected their...
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Report: Agriculture holds the key to solving global warming
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Agriculture, so often cited as a factor in global decline – for claiming natural grasslands that store carbon, soil erosion and pesticide runoff – could become a big...
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FOOD INC., a story to turn your stomach
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The movie FOOD, INC. opened this past weekend in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. It’s not the first film to tackle the problems of our industrial food...
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Global Change Research Project: Reality looms
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now This Global Change Research report released this week is a compendium of the expected fallout from climate change in the U.S. It’s not something you’ll want to curl...
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Coca-Cola goes sweet for Passover — and also for the planet
Green Right Now Reports Coca-Cola company announced it will be observing Earth Hour tomorrow by turning out some iconic lighted signs in cities around the world, including those in Times Square in New...
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Solving the climate crisis at the end of your fork
(The following column was written by Francesca Rheannon, managing editor of the Talkback for the Corporate Social Responsibility newswire.) By Francesca Rheannon Francesca Rheannon produces and hosts...
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US drought worsens
From Green Right Now Reports Drought continues to savage the U.S., claiming crops, threatening livestock and spurring wildfires, and it is intensifying. The U.S. Drought Monitor reveals a deepening...
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Overuse of groundwater threatens global supplies, according to Nature study
From Yale Environment 360 Irrigation in California's Central Valley. (Photo: Post Carbon Institute) A new study finds that nearly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in regions where water is...
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Good News for 2013: We may have enough farmland to feed the world
From Green Right Now Reports We may have reached “peak farmland” on earth, meaning we have enough cultivated land to support our bulging human population, according to a report released this week. Even...
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How we can cultivate a better food system in 2013
By Danielle Nierenberg and Ellen Gustafson Founders of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank Danielle Nierenberg As we start 2013, many people will be thinking about plans and promises to improve their diet...
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Common pesticides killed frogs, even at ‘safe levels’
From Green Right Now Reports European researchers studying the effects of seven common agricultural pesticides on frogs report that exposing the amphibians to the chemicals resulted in rates of...
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How to Avoid GMO Foods
From Green Right Now Reports Genetically modified foods are everywhere, having crept into processed foods as key components, such as corn oil, corn flour, high fructose corn syrup, soybean oil, soy...
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Frog advocates say it’s time to leap into the atrazine debate
From Green Right Now Reports The Litoria Fallax Eastern Sedge Frog (Photo: Save the Frogs) Atrazine, a pesticide used on crops that’s been derided as causing the feminization of frogs, among other...
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‘Predator friendly’ farms respect wildlife
Green Right Now Reports Farms and nature are often seen as opposing forces. One plows down wild spaces, builds fences and turns a wary eye toward the native wildlife. The other follows the way of the...
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Find farmers’ markets anywhere in the US with this list
Green Right Now Reports (Photo: GRN) Farmer’s markets have been growing rapidly in the U.S. over the past 10 years with more than 8,100 markets in operation nationwide in 2013, according to the US...
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Atrazine still polluting water; Texas tests show high levels
GRN Reports Atrazine, banned in Europe but freely used by agriculture in the US, has become notorious as the pesticide that causes frogs to change genders. Exposed to Atrazine, even in tiny amounts,...
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Biodynamic wine: The ultimate sustainable drink
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Biodynamic wine is not difficult to understand, once you get past the notion that it’s “hocus-pocus”, as some early articles on the topic suggested. These stories...
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