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Rigging the aquaculture game
Updated 9/21 to clarify the MMS proposal. Thanks, Zach! I've gotta hand it to the Bushies. If there is one arena in which this band of generally-less-than-a-full -deckers shows a glimmer of brilliance,...
View ArticleDigest – Features & Blogs: Convention frenzy, local meat gets scrapped, and...
O-yeah: Michelle Obama tells Oprah that she's planning a veggie garden on the lawn of the White House in order to "use it as a point of education, to talk about health and how delicious it is to eat...
View ArticleDigest – News: Gates Foundation exec picked for USDA research post, Roundup...
Get Shah-ty: The Obama administration has nominated Rajiv J. Shah to serve as Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics of the USDA. (NYT Diner’s Journal Blog) Shah is the director of the...
View ArticleGAO recommends better labeling for bottled water
Thirsty for more information: The Government Accountability Office recently looked at oversight of the bottled water by the FDA and states in comparison to EPA's regulation of tap water. FDA's...
View ArticleAustralia fires major salvos in bottled-water battle
Taptive audience: Residents of Bundanoon, a town of 2,500 about 100 miles south of Sydney, have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, possibly the first community in the world to do so. This "battle...
View ArticleEngineer designs inexpensive drip irrigation system
Drop zone: On a visit to Ethiopia, mechanical engineer Peter Frykman saw how people went hungry because of a lack of affordable irrigation equipment for their fields, so he designed an inexpensive drip...
View ArticleMichigan food processors turn groundwater orange
Orange you glad I didn't say arsenic?: It's common practice among Michigan's fruit and vegetable processors to spray their untreated wastewater, heavy with sugars and salts, onto nearby fields. After...
View ArticleMonsanto’s metallic legacy: Near phosphate mines, Idaho’s rivers take the hit
Everyone's favorite company finds yet another environmental resource to mismanage: In order to make its infamous herbicide Roundup, Monsanto needs phosphate, a mineral that happens to be prevalent in...
View ArticleDairy runoff in our tap water
Big dairies, big problems: Reporter Charles Duhigg of the New York Times has been on the rampage these past few weeks with a series of great articles highlighting the need for better government...
View ArticleBottled water’s energy budget
In a short research paper, two staff members from the Pacific Institute examine how energy is used in the production and distribution of bottled water. Bottle production and transportation are by far...
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