e2 - Eye on Earth
by Camille Serre and Alexander Ochs on September 1, 2010 In the past five years, Portugal has made dramatic changes in its energy policy, becoming the fourth-greatest producer of renewable energy in Europe.
by Ronit Ridberg on August 31, 2010 Dena Hoff, a farmer and activist in eastern Montana, is the North America coordinator for La Via Campesina, the international peasants movement credited with coining the term "food sovereignty."
by Frank Place and Danielle Nierenberg on August 24, 2010
While a few farmers in the United States plant trees around fields to prevent wind erosion, farmers in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia are planting trees alongside crops to help conserve and clean water and air, build up soils, provide feed for livestock, and - perhaps most importantly - increase yields and incomes.
by Camille Serre and Alexander Ochs on August 23, 2010 Three years after then-newly elected president Nicolas Sarkozy launched the Grenelle de l'Environnement, the legislation defines the French sustainable development strategy for years to come.
by Michael Renner on August 20, 2010 It is time for a new brand of environmentalism - one that unreservedly embraces social goals and ideals as much as ecological ones, and that dares to question whether market forces are always the best tool to rely on.
by Jeanne Roberts on August 19, 2010 For horticulturalist Mary Abukutsa-Onyango, a long-term solution is needed for Kenya that uses the country's arid soil and indigenous vegetables to effect a lasting revolution in regional agriculture.
by Shayna Bailey and Danielle Nierenberg on August 17, 2010
In the United States and Canada and all over Africa, decreased consumption of locally produced foods has led to a weakened local economy, rising poverty levels and health problems.
by Fred Bahnson on August 16, 2010 Gary Paul Nabhan, a food and farming advocate, folklorist, and conservationist, discusses his new book, the future of agriculture, and how 1,400-year-old Lebanese farming techniques influence his land ethic.
by Alexander Ochs and Haibing Ma on August 11, 2010 Just when leaders in the U.S. Senate admit to abandoning their plan of voting on a federal climate bill this year, top Chinese officials discuss how to launch carbon trading programs under their country's next Five-Year Plan.
by Ronit Ridberg on August 9, 2010 Incensed by the injustices suffered by his family and other farmworkers, Baldemar Velasquez founded the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to improve working and living conditions for migrant farmworkers across the United States.
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