Weekly Earthlinks May 9, 2008


By Sara | 05/09/08 - 7:54am

We’re starting a new feature this week: a digest of links I and my partners-in-blogging-crime have come across recently. Many of which we’d love to have featured full-length analyses, but the rest of life intervened. Some are great resources and some are merely interesting.

Clash over CO2 and food miles. Is African agriculture more eco-friendly?

New Food Safety Rules May Do More Harm Than Good . The food safety regulations established in response to the spinach E. coli outbreak are threatening environmentally friendly farming practices.

The great organic myths: Why organic foods are an indulgence the world can’t afford.

Organic Myths Rebutted.

More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability. Expanding the capacity of all women to choose when to bear children is thus the surest route to achieving an environmentally sustainable population.

Eating Fresh and Seasonal. Seasonal guides to help you navigate the world of produce from the supermarket to your kitchen

And one that we will be posting more on soon, Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses “Unacceptable” Risks to Public Health, Environment



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