Dickson Despommier brought his idea for vertical urban farms to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Friday, and his audience of more than 100 people responded with a mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism.
Despommier is director of the Vertical Farm Project and a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School [...]

On Tuesday, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future honored Baltimore City Public Schools’ Great Kids Farm with an award for visionary leadership in local food procurement and food education. The school system is now able to provide local milk, fruits, and vegetables with meals it serves and is working to help its more [...]

Funny how much difference a week can make.  Just a few days into his term, President Obama gave America a new reason to look at the world through green-tinted shades by announcing his plan for tackling climate change, the New Energy for America plan.   The plan focuses on increasing the country’s energy independence by investing [...]

Farmer and Writer Wendell Berry and Land Institute President Wes Jackson share their views on soil loss and degradation, toxic pollution, dependency on fossil fuels in this op-ed published in the New York Times.

The Huffington Post this week looks at U.S. food policy and how it could potentially change under the Obama Administration. ‘Yes We Can’ Create a Sane Food Policy in the U.S. calls for President-elect Obama to appoint “an independent-minded secretary of agriculture who shares his concern for our nation’s youth, our national health, global development, the environment, and [...]

This week, 88 prominent figures in sustainable food and agriculture signed a letter to the Obama transition team entitled “the sustainable choice for the next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.” This letter offered up the top 6 picks for the new (and sustainable!) Secretary of Agriculture including Gus Schumacher (MA), Chuck Hasselbrook (NE), Sarah Vogel (ND, [...]

Those in the running include: Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas Governor, Charles W. Stenholm, a Lobbyist and senior policy adviser at an agricultural law firm and Dennis Wolff, the current Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary.  
For a full review of these candidates, Washington Post provides a detailed report.