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[If you missed Part 1, go here.] The Organic Movement Most people are vaguely familiar with the counterculture roots of the organic movement. It’s a success story (perhaps too much of one for those who believe that small is beautiful). A couple of decades ago, the organic section of the average grocery store consisted of a bin [...] October 7th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, food, local, locavore, organic, pollan, profood, slowfood, sustainability | Category: Food Movement | Leave a comment
Norman Borlaug If you haven’t read about Norman Borlaug you can get quickly caught up here and here and here. I’ll extract a key bit from the article in The Age: ”Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the Earth, but many of them are elitists,” [Borlaug] told the [...] September 15th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, borlaug, gmo, sustainability | Category: Agriculture, GMOs | One comment - Add yours
Lots more in the papers today on what the Globe calls “the near total collapse of the Fraser River sockeye run.” Quick background for non-British Columbians: We BCers, though no longer hewers of wood and wrestlers of bears, still love the outdoors for the most part, and the noble salmon—especially the delicious sockeye—are a keystone in [...] August 14th, 2009 | Tags: bc, conservation, salmon, sustainability | Category: Salmon Conservation | Leave a comment
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