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Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure By Kerry Trueman, AlterNet "Just Food" is framed as the lament of a lapsed locavore who has been driven into the arms of Agribiz by food-mile militants who, according to him, number in the millions. Read more » 'Crude': The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See By Han Shan, AlterNet The new film exposes an environmental tragedy experts call the "Amazon Chernobyl," and believe is the worst case of oil-related contamination ever. more » VeggieTrader.com: The New Site That Let's You Save Money, Get Rid of That Extra Broccoli and Meet Some Nice Foodies By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet This new site not only provides a way to swap food, but is becoming a social networking hot spot for foodies. more » Whole Foods Looks and Acts More Like Wal-Mart Than a 'Sustainable' Natural Foods Store By Rob Smart, AlterNet Lost in the uproar over Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's controversial venture into the health care debate, is a bigger, though less subtle story. more » Glenn Beck's Crazy Lies About Van Jones By Eva Paterson, Equal Justice Society Glenn Beck spent last week smearing Van Jones with misinformation and outright lies. Here's setting the record straight. more » VIDEO: A Tour Through the Farmer's Market: How to Buy More and Spend Less Chelsea Green Publishing Author Elise McDonough takes us through a farmers market in New York and shows us how to make sustainable, healthy, and delicious food choices. more » Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing Were we traumatized? Did we feel sorry for the chicken? Are we dreading this weekend, where we'll have to kill 150 more? Here's why not. more » Rethinking Food Production For a World of Eight Billion By Lester R. Brown, TreeHugger How China ended its dependence on food aid, almost overnight, and become the world's third largest food aid donor. more » The Coalfields of Appalachia Are in a State of Emergency and Your Help Is Needed Now By Jeff Biggers, AlterNet Here are a few ways to support coalfield residents and heroes, affect climate destabilization, and move our nation toward clean energy jobs. more » Big Oil Gets in on Right-Wing Astroturf Game By Jim Hightower, AlterNet Since Astroturf itself is made up of petroleum, there's a certain poetic symmetry in having Big Oil produce the silliest astroturf campaign yet. more » Surely Some Flora Out There Can Fuel My Car By Doug Struck, Miller-McCune.com While the corn ethanol bubble has pretty much popped, serious efforts to find an economically sound and carbon-smart biological-based fuel continue. more » PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web US senators see climate bill delay By Agence France Presse more » Has Japan's Dolphin Slaughter Been Prevented? By Tara Lohan, AlterNet Media presence in Taiji seems to be keeping the dolphin killers at bay -- for now. more » Is Your Cell Phone Co. Sponsoring a Climate Change Denying, Union Busting, Pro-Mountaintop Removal Rally? By Peter Rothberg, TheNation.com If you're one of Verizon's 87 million customers, the answer is yes. more » Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia By Mike Elk, Campaign for America's Future West Virginia shows us how we could easily win over this key segment of society, working class whites, with a New Deal-style industrial policy. more »

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