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Plans for First Food Waste to Energy Plant in U.S. Underway
December 13, 2010 The green light has been given by Portland Metro to Columbia Biogas to “build a facility that will use anaerobic digestion to transform commercial food waste into methane gas that will run engines to generate electricity.” The food waste will be collected from commercial and industrial sources and is “expected to produce [...]
Food Supply Chain Competition
December 10, 2010 The final Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy workshop put on by the USDA and the Department of Justice was held December 08, 2010, in Washington, DC. This last workshop, entitled Margins, was to “look at the discrepancies between the prices received by farmers and the prices paid [...]
Important Food Stories of 2010
December 09, 2010 This time of year brings out those best-of-the-year lists, and food stories is has its round up too. A few days ago, Daniel Fromson, of the Atlantic listed what he considered the 10 Biggest Food Stories of 2010. A few dealt with food policy – the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kid Act and Food [...]
Big Table Farm
December 08, 2010 After living on the East Coast and working at an ad agency for several years, artist Clare Carver packed her bags and moved West. One thing or another led her to begin farming 70 acres and making vino with partner (and winemaker) Brian Marcy at Big Table Farm. What is inspirational about [...]
Carl Warner’s Foodscapes: Playing with your Food
December 06, 2010 Carl Warner creates an alternative reality – and what a alternative it is…using everyday whole foods Warner creates foodscapes that look delicious, yet other-worldly. He hopes his work will also be used as a vehicle to promote healthy eating – not just pretty pictures made of food, but actually doing some good. [...]
House Approves Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act
December 03, 2010 Also known as the Child Nutrition Act, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S3307) was passed in the House of Representatives yesterday. The good folks at Farm to School share this: “The House of Representatives today [12/02/2010] approved the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S. 3307), paving the way for President Obama to sign [...]
California Approves Use of Pesticide Linked to Cancer
December 02, 2010 It’s a good news/bad news scenario: California regulators have replaced methyl bromide with methyl iodide to be used as a fumigant in agriculture. The good news is that it takes methyl bromide off the list of choices due to its known ability to deplete the stratospheric ozone layer. The bad news is [...]
House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error
December 01, 2010 New Update to the passing of the Food Safety Modernization Bill, from Roll Call: “The Senate passed the bill Tuesday, sending it to the House, but House Democrats are expected to use a procedure known as “blue slipping” to block the bill, according to House and Senate GOP aides.” and… “The blue [...]