May 17th, 2013 
Megan Stilley 
Last year we had a massive garden. It took up the majority of our backyard with peas, leeks, carrots, beans, summer squash, winter squash, lettuces, broccoli, tomatoes, collards and herbs. But to be honest, it was a lot of work and a lot of it was a bust. It was extremely hot and dry last [...]
May 13th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
At the turn of the century, urban areas were teeming with food production facilities. Mind you, this was the 19th century. As food production joined the global supply chain, vast tracts of industrial spaces that had once housed abattoirs emptied and stood vacant. Only since the more recent century gave way (and really the past [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson 
Tags: Denver, Food, food industry 
No Comments » May 6th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
During Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror, his environmental transgressions were manifold. Among them were chemical warfare, continued oil extraction, and setting wells in Kuwait on fire, all of which were well publicized. Perhaps less well known was the draining of the Fertile Crescent, the birthplace of agriculture. In Iraq, some of the most fertile land [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, News, Stewards of the Earth Tags: Environment, Los Angeles, Video No Comments » May 3rd, 2013 Megan Stilley 
One thing that scares me about our food system is the use of antibiotics. It scares me because it seems to be causing problems that weren’t originally foreseen, such as superbugs and resistance to antibiotics. This is along the same lines as superweeds. We are using drugs and pesticides to increase production without thinking about [...]
April 10th, 2013 Noelle Phares 
The concept of human evolution rarely extends beyond discussion of the evolution of Homo Sapiens from Homo Erectus, and Erectus from the more primitive Australopithecus. We think evolution, and we think fossil records. We think finches. When we think of humans, we think of this succession of ancient bipeds. Infrequently do discussions of evolution in [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Agriculture, Behavior, Op-Ed Tags: Agriculture, Evolution, Noelle Phares No Comments » April 3rd, 2013 Noelle Phares 
The mandated labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods remains a pipe dream within US borders. But the topic continues to simmer on socio-political agendas. Washington State introduced labeling initiative I-522 to its state legislature earlier this year, previously label-opposed food giant Wal-Mart switched teams to start rallying for labeling at the national level in January, [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Agriculture, Business, Op-Ed, Policy Tags: California, GMO, Noelle Phares, policy No Comments » April 1st, 2013 Sean Connell April 1 arrives at what is usually the peak time for cherry blossoms in Japan. Canopies of pink and white blossoms cover parks and brighten up streets, drawing crowds of people to marvel at their beauty, reflect on the fleeting nature of life that the short-lived blossoms have traditionally represented in Japanese culture, or engage [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Japan, Policy, Sustainability Tags: Forestry Policy, Japan, Public Health, Sean Connell, Silviculture No Comments » March 27th, 2013 Noelle Phares 
I, among fellow students in my graduate program, have had the recent pleasure of learning about the ‘ecology of managed ecosytems’ from the most cited ecologist in the world: Dr. David Tilman. What is it about Dr. Tilman’s science that has propelled him to the top of the ecologist’s food chain? According to him, it was [...]
March 24th, 2013 Mac Maloney The Company The Pacific Northwest has been one of the hotbeds of the recent craft beer revolution. However, Oregon has been a central hub for craft brewing for the past 30 years. One of the most visible of the bunch has been Rogue, a small brewery based, not in Portland, but in Newport. Like most [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Reviews, Revolutionary Spirits, Uncategorized Tags: Beer, Mac Maloney, Revolutionary Spirits No Comments » March 18th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
Upon finishing the Overture, the preface essentially, to Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, I was a bit depressed. Here was a book about a town in the desolate reaches of eastern Colombia. A town that strived to be an example of sustainable living amongst the harsh conditions of the llanos, savannas [...]
