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.

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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.

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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

NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr

Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet!
Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities.

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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.

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Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so.

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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.

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?

photo: Yusuke Kawasaki via flickr.

The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna, and now the European Union nations will do so as

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).