While today reminds us of the environmental challenges we face nationally and globally, it isn’t the only day where we should be concerned about our impact on the Earth (and in turn, how our actions affect the environment and our health).
Earth Day should be about raising awareness of what we are doing every day and [...]

A great article in this morning’s Washington Post profiles Dave Murphy, the founder of Food Democracy Now, and emphasizes the need for strong advocates of food system reform who are from the Midwest. The importance of having advocates who aren’t coastal and who have worked the land (or are related to those who have) echoes [...]

In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristoff addressed President-elect Obama’s soon-to-be-made choice for Secretary of Agriculture, asking whether or not a “U.S. Department of Food” would better reflect the change our country needs to see realized in our food policy. 
Kristoff notes that “a Department of Agriculture made sense 100 years ago when 35 percent of Americans engaged [...]

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, [...]