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Layers of buying local

Going green
When we drink a glass of organic milk, or eat organic pork sausage with our organic scrambled eggs, it’s easy to forget what goes into securing that “organic” label.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 09, 2010

Bad times for the good earth

How are we going to keep them down on the farm?
You could say that the plight of the Massachusetts farmer began during the Great Ice Age, when the Laurentide Ice Sheet scraped over New England leaving poor soil and, as one farmer put it, "rocks, rocks, rocks."
By D.C. DENISON | August 11, 2009

Saving the earth

Seeing the climate-change forest for the carbon-storing trees.
Former Green gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter's 120 acres in Lexington township will be the first-ever officially designated "carbon sequestration forest." It remains to be seen whether they will also be the only one.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 25, 2009

Kernel-industrial complex

Examining a landscape where crops only feed food
Aaron Woolf’s documentary King Corn, which opens the weekend of conversations about local farming and sustainable consumption, is a sound prototype for the new wave of populist eco-docs.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 23, 2008

Eating, my words

Going green
In 2008, I’m going to eat less meat.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 26, 2007

Killing bills

Congress inaction
Auto workers, oil companies, and farmers all snarling together in a pit of special interests — it’s not a pretty picture.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 20, 2007

It affects urbanites, too

Ninety-eight cents a meal ain’t much.
By DEIRFRE FULTON | August 15, 2007

Mowed down

The federal Farm Bill leaves Mainers in the dust
Libby describes Leahy’s spot on the committee as “good for new England — because without that voice we’d be invisible.”
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 15, 2007

Meat takes heat

Letters to the Boston editor, May 18, 2007
Regarding your recent editorial, “Global Warming," I want to add another reason for hope.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 16, 2007

Don’t get too hip

Politics and other mistakes
Officials at the Maine Department of Agriculture and Assorted Other Kultures are still reeling from the news that TV celebrity Homer Simpson has endorsed Maine potatoes.
By AL DIAMON | March 08, 2006

U.N. Agency: Rate of Deforestation Slowing

ROME - The speed of global deforestation has slowed because of new planting and natural forest extension, but the world's forests are still being destroyed at an alarming rate, a U.N. agency said Monday.
ROME - The speed of global deforestation has slowed because of new planting and natural forest extension, but the world's forests are still being destroyed at an alarming rate, a U.N. agency said Monday.
By | November 14, 2005