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Spare Times: For Children - New York Times

School Gardens - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 1:00pm

Spare Times: For Children
New York Times
The Howell is home to five Global Family Gardens, all tended by community volunteers from different cultures. Children will explore these plots botanically ...

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O'Leary looking to make his own name in football - The Associated Press

School Gardens - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:34pm

O'Leary looking to make his own name in football
The Associated Press
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Contrary to many assumptions, the first name of the consensus No. 1 tight end recruit in the country is not Nicholas. ...

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Big Green Boxes: A "Hub-and-Spoke Model" for City Farming - WorldChanging (blog)

Food System Change - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:56am

WorldChanging (blog)

Big Green Boxes: A "Hub-and-Spoke Model" for City Farming
WorldChanging (blog)
Grist has a new series of interviews up on people who are working to change America's food system in inspiring ways. Yesterday they posted an interview with ...

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Training serves up new ideas for school lunches - Courier-Life

School Gardens - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 9:58am

Courier-Life

Training serves up new ideas for school lunches
Courier-Life
Some of the districts, such as West Salem, have school gardens. Students there started a garden last year and its produce is offered in the cafeterias. ...

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Top Chef Review: It's all too much to embrace as a human - Poptimal.com

Food System Change - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 7:24am

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Top Chef Review: It's all too much to embrace as a human
Poptimal.com
Vickie Kloeris (NASA's Manager, International Space Station Food System and Space Food Systems Laboratory) gives some guidelines to not make their food too ...
Space Cakes: Angelo Returns to Form, Tiffany's Bad Luck Sends Her HomeExpress from The Washington Post (blog)

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A Garden of One's Own - Justmeans

School Gardens - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 7:18am

A Garden of One's Own
Justmeans
The goal of the summer programs is to provide Camden youths with safe and enriching experiences when school's not there to fill up their days. ...

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Gardening project hit with cuts bombshell - Essex Echo

Horticulture Therapy - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 7:02am

Gardening project hit with cuts bombshell
Essex Echo
The Growing Together scheme, which has been running in allotments off Fairfax Drive, Westcliff, for ten years, provides horticultural therapy to patients. ...

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May your Kindle get salmonella - Wire

Food System Change - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 6:07am

May your Kindle get salmonella
Wire
Buying local might seem like a massive lifestyle change, but really it's just one decision that you make when you pull out your wallet to buy a dozen eggs. ...

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The West at a glance - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

School Gardens - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 5:55am

The West at a glance
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Gardening and cooking enthusiasts are invited to attend free classes offered by two organizations that support the new community garden on the grounds of ...

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The water footprint: the hidden cost of our meat consumption - The Ecologist (blog)

Food System Change - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 5:15am

The water footprint: the hidden cost of our meat consumption
The Ecologist (blog)
... but hardly ever the issue of water-use efficiency in the food system as a whole (more kcal per drop). This situation has to change. ...

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Home and garden news and notes - Kansas City Star

School Gardens - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 5:15am

Home and garden news and notes
Kansas City Star
The book touts the benefits of school gardens in enhancing learning and helping children connect with nature. It also helps parents and educators research ...

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Registration Deadline Approaches For Master Gardner Classes - NJ TODAY

Horticulture Therapy - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 5:01am

Registration Deadline Approaches For Master Gardner Classes
NJ TODAY
Topics covered include: sound gardening techniques; composting; creative methods of conserving resources; and horticulture therapy. ...

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Urban gardens targets of veggie theft - Marketplace (blog)

Urban Agriculture - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 4:50am

Marketplace (blog)

Urban gardens targets of veggie theft
Marketplace (blog)
Detroit farm enthusiasts want to turn the vacant one-third of the city into the world's foremost laboratory for urban agriculture. ...

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Monsanto in Gates’ Clothing? The Emperor’s New GMOs

Civil Eats - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 1:00am

If you had any doubts about where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is really placing its bets, AGRA Watch’s recent announcement of the Foundation’s investment of $23.1 million in 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock should put them to rest. Genetic engineering: full speed ahead.

If you are one of those people who believes the axiom that Monsanto is the farmer’s friend (and the corollary, that its climate-ready, bio-fortified GMOs can save the world from hunger) you will not be surprised, disappointed, or find any conflict of interest in this investment.

But if you are part of the growing population who gets their information about GMOs from scientists who are not beholden to corporate funding, has a problem with anti-trust issues, or is getting queasy about the increasing monopoly power of philanthropy capital… it’s time to say the Emperor has no clothes.

Under the guise of “sustainability” the Foundation has been spearheading a multi-billion dollar effort to transform African into a GMO-friendly continent. The public relations flagship for this effort is the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a massive Green Revolution project. Up to now AGRA spokespeople have been slippery, and frankly, contradictory about their stance on GMOs.

The first Director of AGRA was Gary Toenniessen, a career program officer for Rockefeller Foundation. He said AGRA was not ruling out GMOs and if and when they were introduced it would be with all the appropriate “safeguards.” After AGRA was criticized for not having any Africans, Kofi Anan was named Chairman in 2007. He first said GMOs were out of the picture, the next day he recapitulated. Last Spring, Joe DeVries, who runs the AGRA seed program was asked by a Worldwatch blogger if they were engaging in genetic engineering. “Read our lips,” said Joe DeVries. “We are not promoting or funding research for GMOs (genetically modified organisms)…” In fact, in Kenya alone AGRA has used funds from the Gates Foundation to write grants for research in genetically modified agriculture. Nearly 80% of Gates’ funding in Kenya involves biotech and there have been over $100 million in grants to organizations connected to Monsanto. In 2008, some 30% of the Foundation’s agricultural development funds went to promoting or developing genetically modified seeds (See Ending Africa’s Hunger)..

More to the point is that–as Monsanto and Gates are fully aware–to establish a healthy GMO industry one first needs a strong conventional breeding program in place: labs, experiment stations, agronomists, extensionists, molecular biologists… and farmer’s seeds. All of which Gates, Rockefeller, Monsanto and AGRA are actively lining up.

They also need the power of U.S. government funding. That is where the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Casey-Lugar come in. USAID is now headed up by former Gates employee Rajiv Shah. The Casey-Lugar Global Food Security act ties foreign aid to GMOs. When the Gates Foundation places a bet, they like to hold all the cards.

Africa’s seeds are a potential windfall investment for Monsanto. Regardless of the philanthropic side of its intentions, cloaked in the sheep’s clothing of AGRA, the Gates Foundation is moving stealthily opening African seed market to global corporations. When the research, extension, and U.S. foreign aid is all in place Monsanto will swoop in for the feast.

'Green skins' grow in the Emerald City - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (subscription)

Urban Agriculture - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 11:15pm

Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (subscription)

'Green skins' grow in the Emerald City
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (subscription)
As a part of this program, an increase in urban agriculture on green roofs is also on the rise. For example, farming is conducted on the rooftops of ...

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How to make Jack a very smart boy - Daily News & Analysis

Garden Based Learning - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 9:56pm

How to make Jack a very smart boy
Daily News & Analysis
So what is activity-based learning or hands-on learning? Simply put, it should involve as many senses as possible; it should involve three learning styles: ...

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Urban moms promote backyard chickens as election campaign issue - Daily Miner and News

Urban Agriculture - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:51am

Urban moms promote backyard chickens as election campaign issue
Daily Miner and News
... their children that food doesn't necessarily come from a styrofoam box was also cited as an educational opportunity on the value of urban agriculture. ...

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Covington and Santa Rita sprout new gardens - Los Altos Town Crier

School Gardens - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 9:21am

Covington and Santa Rita sprout new gardens
Los Altos Town Crier
The Living Classroom seeks volunteers to lead or assist in lessons, maintain school gardens and replenish lesson kits. Informational meetings are scheduled ...

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Covington and Santa Rita sprout new gardens - Los Altos Town Crier

Garden Based Learning - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 9:21am

Covington and Santa Rita sprout new gardens
Los Altos Town Crier
The garden will be used for hands-on lessons in The Living Classroom, the Los Altos School District's garden-based science program, as well as other ...

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Why doesn't the public health community get it about walkability? - Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)

Food System Change - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 8:24am

Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)

Why doesn't the public health community get it about walkability?
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
It makes little sense to expect individuals to behave differently than their peers; it is more appropriate to seek a general change in behavioral norms and ...

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