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I’ve been a farmworker all my life. Here’s why you should buy organic food
Like millions of farmworkers who have labored in America’s fields and orchards, I know what it’s like to grow the food we eat using toxic pesticides.
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Role of carbon tax in Green New Deal
Climate change is a crisis that needs new thinking. For almost 30 years, the promise of cap-and-trade, carbon markets and faith in capitalism have generated a never-ending debate that has careened tow…
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H.R. 1: Our environment and the new age civil rights movement
This bill will serve as an answer to such a need — one which helps get to the core of democracy and equity for communities of color and this nation. H.R. 1 is a revolutionary bill for the people…
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Friends of the Earth Analysis on the Green New Deal Resolution from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey
There is a lot to celebrate. Friends of the Earth welcomes many new, progressive elements of this proposal.
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Amidst “insect apocalypse” Ace Hardware steps up and takes action on bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
For the first year, all major garden retailers are on record committing to eliminate the use of neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides on the products and garden plants that they sell.
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What the pesticides in our urine tell us about organic food
A study helps answer a question many of us ask when deciding whether to buy organic food: does it really make a difference?
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Green New Deal Must Transform Our Food System to Save Our Climate
Our current industrial food system, and the policies that prop it up, are a central part of the climate crisis, and transforming them must be a central part of the Green New Deal solution.
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A pesticides wake-up call: New study confirms the need to eat and farm organic
As organic farmers, we care deeply about the food we put in our bodies and how it’s grown. On our small farm in middle Georgia, my husband and I grow U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified organic…
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Can eating organic lower your exposure to pesticides?
A new study tracks the pesticides and residues in a small cohort of eaters, and found significant reductions when they switched to an all-organic diet.
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Arctic Indigenous Voices made a difference on polar shipping in 2018 – and 2019 looks promising too
It’s not every day that elder Alaska Natives are heard and respected by leaders from around the world.