Monthly Archives: August 2014

Our Bacterial Overlords Kindly Request That We Eat Better

By Stacey Clinesmith During the first week of the Breakthrough Leaders in Sustainable Food Systems program, we, the students, were tasked with expanding our understanding of systems, leverage points for effecting change in systems, and networks, as well as the … Continue reading

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Lessons from a Little Island

These days it’s easy to get discouraged about the plight of agricultural resources: we see news about agricultural practices that erode soil, poison ecosystems, and deplete groundwater, all of which spell the demise of irreplaceable natural resources. How much longer … Continue reading

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Big Ag, Small Ag, Good Ag, Bad Ag

By Chris Callahan No, this isn’t a new Dr. Seuss story, but my son loves the rhythmic, nonsensical, meaningful stories that we share when we read those books. I sometimes feel like I live in a Dr. Seuss book while … Continue reading

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Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law: Waste reduction through a Food Recovery Hierarchy

By Josh Kelly On Tuesday we posted the first in a 2-part series on food waste. This post looks at policy efforts to reduce food waste in Vermont.  As a teenager I remember opening the fridge as soon as I … Continue reading

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Waste Not, Want Not

This is part 1 in a 2-part series on food waste. Our next post will dig into Vermont’s new universal recycling law, which outlines a recovery hierarchy for food waste. “Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic … Continue reading

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