Five action steps for beating bottled water
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IATP’s Shiney Varghese gives us five things we can do as individuals and in our communities to reduce bottled water use.
1. If you are concerned about the quality of your local water:
Call to bust up Big Ag
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“It is a lie that we have a free market. It’s a lie that we have an open market. Continue Reading
Farm-to-school numbers up and rising
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A new survey, released Tuesday by the Minnesota School Nutrition Association (MSNA) and IATP, can serve as both encouragement for farm-to-school advocates and as a road map for schools, administrators or farmers looking to get involved in the growing movement. Continue Reading
“Oughta be a woman”: Celebrating International Women’s Day
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On March 8, 2010 and in this 15th anniversary of the World Conference on Women that took place in Beijing, China, we celebrate women worldwide as our leaders, our mentors, our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our sources of strength.
What does it mean to celebrate women in this world that is so mired in the multiple crises relatin Continue Reading
Farms in the balance: countering attacks against EPA on climate
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Attacks on the EPA have been coming fast and furious in the past few months.
Childhood obesity and our cheap food policy
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The latest issue of the influential Health Affairs journal comes out blazing with editor-in-chief Susan Dentzer writing that “America is guilty of child abuse.” The March issue focuses on childhood obesity and includes a series of articles related to kid’s snacks, school lunches, food marketing and strategies for prevention.
IATP’s David Walli Continue Reading
Proposed locks for Mississippi: Big price, little benefit
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Imagine the federal government chucking $2 billion down the Mississippi River. Wouldn’t happen, right? Continue Reading
Community building and climate justice
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The non-binding Copenhagen Accord effectively failed to respond to the threat of climate change at the international level. Nationally, U.S. legislators are in limbo — some arguing for cap and trade, others for cap and dividend, and still others insisting that climate change simply doesn’t exist. Continue Reading
Do we need a U.S. Department of Food?
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If we want to fix our broken food system — a system that isn’t working for farmers, consumers or the environment — changing government policy is essential. In the U.S., policy set by Congress and implemented by government agencies deeply affects what, and how, food is produced and consumed. Continue Reading
Growing China’s local food movement
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IATP President Jim Harkness is blogging from China this week.
On Tuesday I had dinner with two rising stars of the Chinese sustainable agriculture movement, Cheng Cunwang and Shi Yan. Cheng was in the U.S. Continue Reading