[social_buttons] From the comment streams and emails I’ve been getting about recent posts, it is clear that many people believe things that are not actually true about the environmental profile [ … ]
Tag: organic
Organic Farming Would Be Better In Terms of Climate Change Impact. Right?
[social_buttons] I’m probably going to irritate some people with this post. I apologize in advance because that is not at all my intention. For those readers that don’t think climate change is [ … ]
Green Books Campaign: From Seed to Table
Editor’s note: This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally-friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers [ … ]
Rehabilitating The Concept of Bio-Fuels: Part One
[social_buttons] In 2006 I attended a BIO meeting in Toronto focused on the new bio-based economy. Oil had just risen to $70/barrel and it was a time when environmental NGOs, [ … ]
Food Supply Worries of an Agricultural Scientist Part 4: Aflatoxin
[social_buttons] This post is going to be another struggle for balance. The threat from this particular mycotoxin in the food supply is a so large that it makes the [ … ]
B.S. And Organic Marketing – Figuratively and Literally
[social_buttons] The large-scale Organic dairy cooperative, “Organic Valley” has just sunk to a new low in the practice of “I will market against my farmer neighbors by stoking consumer’s fears.” [ … ]
Raising an Ethical Issue in the Farming Technology Debate
[social_buttons] The Image above is corn growing in Zimbabwe. There was a scholarly article published late last year by Dr. Robert Paarlberg entitled “The Ethics of Modern Agriculture.” I would encourage [ … ]
The Pesticides I Wish I Could Buy
[social_buttons] Alright. I know that the title of this post is controversial for this website, but I’m serious about this. Read a little further and this might not seem so [ … ]
Hotel Metro in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Green, Hip and Central
I’m coming to the conclusion pretty fast that just about every hotel will eventually be walking the talk when it comes to going green – though some are walking slowly [ … ]
Has Michelle Obama’s Garden Started a First Family Trend?
When Michelle Obama announced plans for a White House kitchen garden, local foodies, gardeners, and health advocates rejoiced: what better way to promote the value of home-grown food than get [ … ]
Putting The “Carbon Footprint” of Farming in Perspective
[social_buttons] When thinking about “carbon footprints” it helps to have real numbers to put things in perspective. The EPA estimates that for the US, agriculture represents about 8% of total [ … ]
Followup to “An Inconvenient Truth about Composting”
[social_buttons] My earlier blog about greenhouse gas emissions from composting generated a lot of good discussion so I am writing to respond. Yes, composting is certainly better than some outcomes [ … ]
50 Years of Truely Sustainable Agriculture to be Celebrated Next Year
“No-till” Soybeans Following Wheat [social_buttons] There is a sub-set of farmers who have been practicing a much more sustainable form of agriculture for decades and we are coming up on [ … ]