A conversation with a spokesperson for the National Corn Growers Association and his friend from the American Farmland Trust | By Tom Philpott | Grist | Victual Reality | 25 Oct 2007
Very interesting.
A good opinion piece about the need to move away from the "us vs them" mentality that has dominated ag-environmentalist relations through a marriage of global and local in the bioeconomy.
You know an idea is starting to get some momentum when people start recognizing some of the nuisances. Local food can be better, but not always. The challenge will be figuring out where and when in a way simple enough for a consumer to understand at the g
Very interesting report on the environmental impact associated with the global livestock industry. Includes a very cool set of world maps.
This site has a tool to estimate the carbon flux from different agricultural practices.