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LISTEN: Diane Wilson Discusses Fasting for Climate Justice on What Now

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:27:12 +0000

Diane Wilson continues her forty-three-day hunger strike for climate justice as she prepares to fly to Copenhagen for the international climate talks there. In this interview with What Now’s Ken Rose, Diane goes into her reasons for fasting, the indifference of a vast swath of the American public to climate change science, and how she believes [...]

WATCH: Creating Meaning and Purpose through Sustainable Business

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:09 +0000

Urban Revision, whose mission “is to help cities develop safe, sustainable and enriching urban blocks,” sat down with Martin Melaver, author of Living Above the Store: Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community, for a short video on his approach to socially responsible business and its role in urban [...]

How to Deal with a Few Bad Apples

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:01:14 +0000

Watching helplessly as a fungus starts to take over your orchard can be a frustrating, even heartbreaking, experience—whether you have two trees or two hundred. Apple scab is a fairly common blight. Even professional apple growers have to deal with it. What do you do when you see those telltale little round greenish spots? Barbara Damrosch [...]

Countdown to Thanksgiving: Roast Narragansett Turkey with Jerusalem Artichokes

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:02:21 +0000

The following article and recipe was excerpted from Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods. Narragansett Turkey Named for Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, where it was first developed by early colonists, this rare standard breed of heritage turkey emerged from crosses between the wild turkeys of eastern America and already domesticated [...]

My Annual Cheese Nightmare

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:58:14 +0000

By Gordon (”Zola”) Edgar In an odd twist, my annual pre-holiday cheese nightmare wasn’t about cheese at all. No—for whatever reason—I feel confident that I haven’t over-ordered this year. Maybe it’s because I don’t have to receive all the cheese myself anymore… Still, while I take a perverse pride in having my sleep interrupted by [...]

Climate Justice Fast, Day 10: Why I am fasting

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:27:39 +0000

By Diane Wilson From the Community Blogs When I talk about my reasons for going on a long hunger fast, people often look at me like I’m crazy and I’m reluctant to correct them because fasts are difficult to explain. But I will explain, again. Before the hunger strikes, my life belonged to the bay. My dad [...]

Chasing Ray Interviews Nature Writer Sy Montgomery

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:49:38 +0000

There’s more to this world than just humanity. A lot more. Here’s an interview with nature writer Sy Montgomery in which she talks about photographing animals in a natural state, absorbing local myths and folklore about the animals she studies, and teaching children to love and protect nature. Sy was kind of enough to invite me to [...]

What Afghanistan Can Teach Us About Reproductive Freedom

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:41:21 +0000

By Madeleine Kunin From the Community Blogs. Some 536,000 women die in pregnancy, according to the World Health Organization. That figure has not changed in 30 years, even as child mortality rates have been reduced. How do we save those women? I found one answer in a small story in The New York Times last week. The dateline [...]

Collapse: Portrait of a Loner

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:41:07 +0000

The documentary Collapse, Chris Smith’s character study of Michael C. Ruppert, has been called “gripping,” “riveting,” “mesmerizing.” The force of Ruppert’s persona sustains the film, but it’s the ideas he present that really take center stage. Humanity is facing some serious challenges that, if left unaddressed, could lead to the collapse of modern industrial civilization. Peak [...]

Pop Star Joss Stone Under Attack for Marijuana Comment

jmcdougall@chelseagreen.com (Chelsea Green Publishing) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:40:55 +0000

By Mason Tvert This article was originally published on The Huffington Post. English pop singer Joss Stone has come under fire for highlighting the fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol, a viewpoint that has sparked intense debate this month in the UK. As Stone told the UK Daily Mail: Weed has been given this evil stamp, [...]