Combining the best and/or worst aspects of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth and Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food / Omnivore’s Dilemma, U.K. author, Felicity Lawrence has written a new book (Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health) detailing her investigation into the impact that

The world has arrived at a point of tremendous economic challenges. On June 19th, the Royal Bank of Scotland warned its clients of a global stock and credit crash within the next three months. On June 17th, Morgan Stanley warned of a “catastrophic event” stemming from an exchange rate crisis. On June 9th, the Bank

I have already noted that there is at least one point of public policy - indeed, one which centers on what is unquestionably the worst bipartisan policy accomplishment of the last 50 years - on which John McCain is actually right. And now it turns out that his opponent is, well, less so: Mr. Obama is

Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets’ research is the Northwest’s native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break

Just a thought: doesn’t it seem like a great time for investments in Chinese agriculture? So much land there is farmed by hand…

Via: Globe-NET 29 May 2008 - Agricultural run-offs containing fertilizers, animal wastes and pesticides are infecting rivers and water courses with blue-green algal blooms and toxic chemicals. While the problem is particularly evident in developing countries - Canada, Australia and the United States contain some of the world’s most polluted rivers, and poor agricultural practices are

Canada is uniquely positioned to weather the storm of sharply-rising prices for grains and rice, and is even poised to profit from the current surge, according to a study released June 12, 2008 in the Canadian Economic Observer. Overall, consumer prices for food consumed at home in Canada have risen only 1.2% in the 12 months ending in April 2008.

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