Category Archives: Environmental

Aiken Lecture 2012: Feeding 9 Million, Maintaining the Planet

This content was originally published by UVM University Communications as part of UVM Today. It was written by Joshua Brown. See original article by clicking here. Over the next forty years — if we are to feed the planet’s burgeoning … Continue reading

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Video Snack: UVM’s Heather Darby Says “Eat What You Sow”

Heather Darby is an Agronomic and Soils Specialist for the University of Vermont Extension. She received her M.S. from the University of Wisconsin in Agronomy and her Ph.D. in Crops and Soils at Oregon State University. Being raised on a … Continue reading

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How Existing Policy Limits Our Ability to Make Change

Guest blog post from Lynn Blevins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Lynn is trained as a field epidemiologist through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). She worked at CDC … Continue reading

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Food in Vermont: Weekly Events, 10/10-10/17

Wednesday (Oct 10) Sun to Cheese Tours Cheese lovers get an inside look at dairy farming and cheese production. 2–4pm. Shelburne Farms. Shelburne. $15 includes a block of cheese. Swede Midge Workshop Swede midge is an invasive insect pest that … Continue reading

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Stanford’s Organic Food Study – It’s Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks, you probably experienced the giant uproar that rippled through the organic food community after Stanford published a multi-variant study finding that there was little difference “nutritionwise” between conventional and … Continue reading

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