Organics in the News
Congress Poised To Cut Conservation Funds That Aided Farm Bill's Passage
Behind the thin green gloss Congressional leaders spread across the subsidy-laden 2008 farm bill, key Democratic lawmakers are hacking away at promises to expand conservation and other environmental programs.
When the bill beca...
PHILIPPINES: Organic Farming - The Way Forward
NUEVA ECIJA - Sustainable agriculture was far from farmer Peter Desisto’s mind when he went to an organic farming seminar organised by the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) ten years ago. He and other farmers attend...
Can Organic Farming Save the World? Or is Poison Better?
The Organic Center reports that converting the nation's eight million acres of produce farms to organic would reduce pesticide dietary risks by about 97 percent. The Organic Center provides the first-ever quantitative estimate of ...
Prince Charles says GMO crops will be "disaster"
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles said on Wednesday the widespread use of genetically modified crops would be the biggest environmental disaster of all time.
The 59-year-old heir to the British throne is well known fo...
Can Cattle Save Us From Global Warming?
A small band of activists and scientists believe that farming done the right way can remove carbon from the atmosphere.
On an unseasonably warm and sunny winter morning-the kind that lulls you into thinking global climate chan...
