Google, state unveil killer California climate website FTW
Take this jaded blogger and color him impressed: Not only is the state of California pioneering climate policies, but it’s also joined with data innovator Google to create a website that shows...
View ArticleWhat bees are worth
About one-third of the value of California agriculture comes from pollinator-dependent crops. But most have assumed that all the pollinating was done by hired drones. However, a new conducted by U.C....
View ArticleBerkeley welcomes agricultural ‘kibbutz’
Sunday marked the grand opening of Urban Adamah in Berkeley, an only-in-Berkeley combination of urban farming, social justice work and progressive Jewish values. During three-month residencies at the...
View ArticleBlack Deforestation takes the cake
Move over Black Forest Cake: It’s Black Deforestation Cake. This weekend, a Black Deforestation Cake made by Apocalypse Cakes‘ Shannon O’Malley and Calico Pie‘s Yasmin Golan (formerly of Chez Panisse)...
View ArticleFarms begin using toxic strawberry fumigant
After the California Department of Pesticide Regulation approved the wildly unpopular fumigant methyl iodide for use in California, enough brouhaha ensued that incoming Governor Brown felt compelled to...
View ArticleGenetically modified lawns: Coming next year?
Despite mounting evidence that genetically engineered crops are a serious environmental problem and don’t boost productivity, their use continues to grow — and may be coming to a suburban lawn near you...
View ArticleAre fresh local foods just for the rich?
The number of farmers markets in the United States has skyrocketed from a measly 340 at the outset of the 1970s to more than 7,000 today, and, according to the USDA, sales of agricultural products...
View ArticleWith high temps come health problems
As climate change goes from being a hypothetical problem to an actual one, with record-breaking highs popping up around the country, NRDC is calling attention to a number of health problems that are...
View ArticleRally today over farmworker rights and toxic methyl iodide
The United Farm Workers will conclude a 200-mile march to Sacramento on September 4, demanding that Governor Jerry Brown act on issues that affect them, including the legal status of the cancer-causing...
View ArticleWine threatens redwoods and heirloom apples in Sonoma
With wine sales continuing to grow despite the recession, wineries have become an economic bully in Sonoma County. Farmers growing the prized (and delicious heirloom) Gravenstein apple are folding,...
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