Nice article on one of our UMass student’s projects in Springfield, MA.  Pete is working to bring local food to the city. “I think city people, especially young people, should understand where food comes from and how connected our well-being is to what, how, where, and why we eat,” says Merzbacher, “but I also want to provide the means of food production that can feed thousands of people.” Check it out here.

The National Research Council recently published an extensive report on the status of sustainable agriculture claiming the current industrial food system is no longer sustainable without huge subsidies.  What used to be called “alternative” agriculture is now rapidly becoming mainstream.  According to the report, the Four Goals Of Sustainable Agriculture are:

• Satisfy human food, feed, and fiber needs, and contribute to biofuel needs.
• Enhance environmental quality and the resource base.
• Sustain the economic viability of agriculture
• Enhance the quality of life for farmers, farm workers, and society as a whole.

Read more here.

Many individuals have made the decision to try to live more sustainably, but without shifts in public policy substantive change won’t happen.  “Eaters” alone won’t change the world, but unless “eaters” do change the necessary shift in public policy is unlikely.   Read more here.

A guide to help you cut your carbon foodprint on food.

Go to the video here.

Arturo Rodriguez invites Americans who think immigrant farm workers are taking away jobs to work in the fields.  See this short  video with Steven Colbert.

If you want to know who’s responsible for decimating the world’s oceans, look no farther than your local supermarket.  At the rate we’re going, years from now there really won’t be other fish in the sea. For more, click here.