Gay Controversy Dooms Boy Scouts Green Building Effort; Radiant Floor Heating Merit Badge Suspended
Continued controversy over the Boy Scouts of America’s recent announcement that it would allow openly gay scouts but prohibit openly gay scout leaders and volunteers prompted the US Department of Energy to rescind its partnership with BSA. Last fall the Department of Energy and the Scouts begun plans to for a series of new […]
Grist’ Story Offers Insight for Organic Industry Spats between the OCA and OTA
Context is everything. Half-full or half-empty? All or nothing? White or black? New York Mets or New York Yankees? (Okay, forgive that last comparison but if you lived in my brain, you’d understand). Seriously, despite my degree in political science, my passion for policy debate (okay, arguing) and my progressive political DNA I can’t […]
Media Watch Week of April 28th
The Sunday New York Times story The Brain — Our Food Traffic Controller should not be missed In a story that should be getting wider circulation, author Hannah Wallace details how to feed a family of three all-organic foods on a food-stamp budget, published in all places Bon Apetit Blog. Take a look at Wallace’ […]
Media Watch Week of April 20th
As reported April 20 in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, California organic growers are increasingly looking East to China for new market opportunities Ad Age discussed the details behind a new ad campaign funded by leading frozen food manufacturers ConAgra, General Mills, Heinz, Nestle and Kellogg’s is seeking to reverse declining sales of frozen foods. Read this […]
Hollywood Squares Major Influencer, Says Pew Research Study, Last of the Boomers, What Went Wrong?
The Pew Research Center recently announced the major conclusion’s from its just published cross-cultural, demographic hagio-analytic report: Last of the Boomers, What Went Wrong? Among the studies most surprising findings is the conclusion that four leading macro-cultural events can be identified as primary factors in “creating the generation that has wrought economic and spiritual malaise like […]
Have No Fear Algae Covered Building is Here
Learn more about what’s likely the “only building in the world where having slimy green things” covering the walls is something to celebrate. Then again we remember in the 1980’s when spirulina and blue green algae were going to solve the world’s hunger problem. Lets hope this one has a bit more staying power. […]
SPINS Data for Earth Day Points to Steady Growth for Green Trends
In honor of Earth Day what else but some data to celebrate the Mother Earth. See the SPINS data chart here and get your geek on. Or take a quick look and then go out and pick up litter on the beach, help restore some wetlands or do something good for the planet.
Monsanto’s Man in the Senate, Missouri’s Roy Blunt
Mother Jones details the previously mysterious Senator who added a rider to unrelated legislation protecting Monsanto and the few other GMO seed companies. The rider, which was a surprise last minute addition to a bill unrelated to agriculture or GMO oversight mandates that the USDA “ignore federal court decisions that block the agency’s approvals of […]