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Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Panel – Making Connections
For the first breakout session of the day, I had the opportunity to attend the “Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture” session, with speakers Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Amy Kalafa, Independent Filmmaker and Author (including her work on the broken school food system in America with “Two Angry Moms” Fifteen or so graduate students, undergraduate […]
Patterson: “Outrageous” That Farmers’ Lawsuit was Dismissed
Last week’s featured article, Organic on the Offensive, inspired strong reactions from people on both sides of the genetically modified agriculture debate. Among the responses Sage received was a letter from Don Patterson, a Virginian farmer and the man who helped catalyze the lawsuit.
Organic on the Offensive: Nation’s Farmers Sue Big Ag
A group of farmers are waging a class-action lawsuit against giant GM seed company Monsanto. The farmers’ argument? “An invention that poisons people is not patentable.” Ben Goldfarb explores an ongoing case with the power to revolutionize the way America grows its food.
Blogging the 2012 U.S./Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development
Follow along in real time as 180 scientists, leaders, advocates and entrepreneurs gather to lay the groundwork for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine
Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat in support of all 193 countries in the United Nations. The UNFF works to bring about the conservation, management and sustainable development of all types of forests. This includes a focus on the entire landscape—on people, soils, water, […]
Hauling in the Sound
In the wake of continually declining lobster stocks in Connecticut, Tahria Sheather follows one of the state’s few remaining full-time lobstermen, Mike Theiler, out for a day of hauling to explore what it’s really like to be a lobsterman these days in Long Island Sound and capture what is fast becoming an endangered livelihood.
That was Then. This is Now.
The newly opened Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. The man behind the museum is not a scientist, but an artist, one member of a growing DIY community that is exploring–and making–a new meaning of life as we know it.
Sage Launches Partnership with PolicyMic: Take Part in Our Sponsored Debate on Arctic Drilling!
Citizens’ Summit to Address Sustainability
A major summit to transform the prospects for sustainability in the United States and Canada will take place on March 24 and 25 at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The US/Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development will host 180 diverse experts, leaders, advocates, entrepreneurs and decision-makers from the United States and Canada for two days of discussions […]
Multimedia: Take a Tour of the Center for PostNatural History
Watch a series of audio slideshows accompanying Jonathan Minard’s story on The Center for PostNatural History.
Sage Briefs: Wrong Place, Wrong Clime–Will Marine Sanctuaries Falter as Temperatures Rise?
he golden promise of marine protected areas – ocean swaths set aside for the management of natural and cultural marine resources – may prove empty by mid-century. As global climate warms, so does ocean temperature, forcing species habitats pole-ward. Marine protected areas (MPAs) don’t tail along. Though the United States manages a network of more than 1,600 MPAs, climate change, […]