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Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs

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Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D)

The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for 'organic' clothing appears to be ending.

Pig Business Exposes the Grisly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry

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Image credit: Grist

Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater. Second, and more significantly, the film has not been—and likely never will be—released in the United States.

Young Farmers are Combining Politics with Pitchforks

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Image credit: Good

The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Should Obama Send His Science Team on a National Campaign to Explain Climate Science?

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Photo via LimJunYing

It's been a couple months of seriously bad PR for climate science, both due to unfortunate errors made by scientists and (okay, mostly) a well-funded noise machine intent on preserving the status quo at any cost.

Are You Being Lied to About Recycling?

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Image credit: Ivan Prole

Look at the bottle of juice you just drank. The detergent you're going to use. The plastic backer on the desk calendar. What's on all of them? That familiar "chasing arrows" graphic with a number in the middle.

Big Oil Launches Campaign to Protect Gov Subsidies, Uses Stock Photos AGAIN

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Guess who'll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it's Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly 'real' Americans were taken? Or perhaps its actors and models, who posed for the photos?

Unilever & Solazyme Working On Algae Oil Process For Soaps And Other Personal Care Products

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World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit:Wikipedia

Certain plant oils, especially palm oil, have a reputation of being produced unsustainably. Many plant oils are low-cost commodities (see table above for recent global volumes).