Environment

Green living tips, the green movement, the environment, and the politics of sustainable living

 


Detroit: Farmer's Paradise?

by Staff, Utne Reader

Could the Motor City become the world’s first 100 percent food self-sufficient city?

Architects Bond with inner Child
by Staff, Utne Reader
What if you let the kids of your neighborhood redesign it?
Organic, Natural—and Corporate?
by Keith Goetzman
Lately it always seems to turn out that brands with names like Grandma’s Garden are fabricated and owned by Acme Evil Megafoods Inc.

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Everyone's Abuzz Over BPA 

While the FDA holes up and takes a good, hard look at the health effects of the widely used plastic additive bisphenol A, there’s a flurry of news and activity on the BPA front.

Republicans for Environmental Protection (Really)

Republicans for Environmental Protection may sound like one of those fake advocacy groups that corporations invent for lobbying purposes, but it’s an actual organization that truly is dedicated to protecting the environment.

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Mark Kastel: When you buy organic, you want to trust the label. Kastel and his small but dogged Cornucopia Institute make sure that organic food producers are walking their talk by snooping around their barnyards and their balance sheets.

Julia “Judy” Bonds: Bonds is a matriarch to the movement against mountaintop removal, the coal mining practice that is literally flattening parts of Appalachia. In her work with Coal River Mountain Watch, she engages in direct activism against “King Coal” and teaches others how to do the same.

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