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The Future of Food: The Next Generation of GMOs
The Future of Food: The Next Generation of GMOs

Instead of investing in potential problems masquerading as solutions, shouldn’t we invest in the transparent, organic, humane, and socially just production of real food in a way that benefits farmers, food-chain workers, consumers, animals, and the environment?

Less and Better Meat is Key for a Healthier Planet
Less and Better Meat is Key for a Healthier Planet

We can go a long way in that direction by shifting public policy and institutional purchasing to help people shift to protein sources—from both plants and animals—that are better for our bodies and for the planet.

Bill Waren on Trump’s renegotiation of NAFTA
Bill Waren on Trump’s renegotiation of NAFTA

Trump is the man who scandalized the whole world by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord. He is bringing that same “war on the planet” attitude to negotiating these agreements.

The president’s tax reform agenda should terrify environmentalists
The president’s tax reform agenda should terrify environmentalists

This week Donald Trump planted himself in front of an oil refinery in North Dakota to talk about tax cuts. The whole spectacle was a reminder that the GOP tax reform agenda could be a disaster for the environment.

The birds and the bees: Research implicates pollinator-toxic pesticides in hummingbird declines
The birds and the bees: Research implicates pollinator-toxic pesticides in hummingbird declines

Bees aren’t the only important pollinators in peril.

America’s Largest Traditional Supermarket Chain Is Fine With Killing Bees
America’s Largest Traditional Supermarket Chain Is Fine With Killing Bees

Kroger can and should set the example for other supermarkets and food retailers, and give their customers what they’re looking for: more organic choices with fewer toxic pesticides.

10 ways that Trump’s new NAFTA threatens people and the planet
10 ways that Trump’s new NAFTA threatens people and the planet

When we compare the evils of Trump’s new trade deal against reality of our current economy, the American people should be extremely concerned about the future of our environment.

Extinguishing the torches of hate
Extinguishing the torches of hate

We find ourselves in a country where being a white supremacist is a political bonafide, rather than political suicide.

The California legislature just extended cap and trade. 3,000 people will die.
The California legislature just extended cap and trade. 3,000 people will die.

Richmond, California has been my home for the past 15 years. It’s also home to the largest refinery on the west coast, operated by Chevron, California’s single largest stationary source of greenhouse gas emissions.

For almost four years, Richmond’s environmental justice advocates have been campaigning to prevent Chevron from embarking on a major refinery expansion that would allow the facility to process dirtier, heavier tar sands crude. The campaign fought to convince the…

What Kroger Can Do To Protect People, Pollinators and the Planet
What Kroger Can Do To Protect People, Pollinators and the Planet

Beekeepers, farmworkers, and concerned Cincinnati residents gathered outside of Kroger’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, June 22, to urge Kroger to stop selling food grown with bee-killing pesticides and offer more bee and people friendly organic food. Kroger is the largest traditional supermarket company in the U.S. However, it stocks its shelves with food grown with pesticides that are harming pollinators, people and our environment. At the meeting, Friends of the Earth and SumOfUs…