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(Cook) Book Review: The Happiness Diet

We are all looking for happiness. Is it possible that it’s as close as the end of our forks? Tyler Graham and Drew Ramsey, MD, whose new book, The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood, and Lean, Energized

Cookbook Review - Thrive Foods - For The Planet And Your Health

While we have had our bad eating habits explained to us before, vegan triathlete Brendan Brazier brings a new perspective to the topic and breaks the elements down into measurable chunks in his new book, Thrive Foods, lending real weight to his theor

Cookbook Review - Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source

Clean Food is more than just a cookbook and its author, Terry Walters, is more than just a cook. Walters is a holistic health counselor, food educator, and motivational speaker who brings the taste buds of a chef, the eye of a nutritionist, t

Cookbook Review - Simply in Season

Simply in Season is a cookbook that takes on the problems of modern food production through seasonal eating. This handy, spiral bound guide is color coded by season and offers recipes made from foods typically offered by small local farmers during ea

Cookbook Review - The Niman Ranch Cookbook: From Farm to Table with America’s Finest Meat

From The Niman Ranch Cookbook, you'll not only discover great recipes from some of America’s top chefs, you'll also learn about the producers, veterinarians, and ranchers across the nation who have joined Bill Niman in his quest to return agric

Cookbook Review - Farmer John’s Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables

The Real Dirt on Vegetables is the companion book to the movie The Real Dirt on Farmer John, the story of Farmer John Peterson’s journey into the world of organic and community-supported farming. The Real Dirt on Vegetables is peppered with ess

Cookbook Review - Grub

"Grub means real choice - and with it freedom - freedom from fear of food, from angst about weight gain, from worrying about who may have suffered to harvest our food. Grub means pleasure and health; it means food in tune with our cultural heritage.

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  • Why Federal Efforts to Ensure Clean Tap Water Fail to Reach Faucets Nationwide
  • US Unconventional Oil Ignites Chain Reaction That Redefines Global Markets
  • Maine Legislature Easily Passes GMO Food Labeling Bill, a Blow to Monsanto
  • Amid Data Controversy, NSA Builds Its Biggest Data Farm
  • The Amish Are Getting Fracked
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  • Could Biofuel Forests Repair Mountaintop Removal Sites?
  • After Drought, Rains Plaguing Midwest Farms
  • US Tailors Regional Climate Plans to Help Farmers Beat the Heat
  • Floods Bring Misery to Central Europe Areas
  • Ecology Lessons From the Cold War
  • Evaporating Water Supply Poses Costly Risk for Miners
  • New Mexico County First in Nation to Ban Fracking to Safeguard Water
  • EPA Inspector General to Investigate Efforts to Reduce Natural Gas Pipeline Leaks

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  • A single margherita pizza requires 333 gallons of water, enough to fill almost ten bathtubs!
  • Animal agricultural operations produce nearly 73% of all ammonia air pollution in the US.
  • 16: The number of U.S. states that generate more than 10% of their electricity from renewable sources.
  • About 40 calories of fossil fuel energy go into every calorie of feed lot beef in the US. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
  • Irrigation-intensive agricultural diverts 70 percent of the world's available freshwater each year.
  • Genetically engineered soybeans, corn and cotton in the US make up 93%, 88% and 94% of the total acreage of each respective crop.
  • 65 percent of Americans say that there should be more regulation of fracking for natural gas.
  • About 50 million Americans get sick from unsafe food each year, resulting in over 100,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths.
  • On average, one apple has a water footprint of 33 gallons.
  • 73 percent of the Earth's surface water is locked in ice and snow.
  • The earth receives 1500 times as much energy than humans use from the sun each day.
  • The US consumes 800 million gallons of oil each day.
  • The average American throws away 20 pounds of food each month or about two-thirds of a pound per person per day.
  • Livestock farming contributes to 18% of the global warming effect, more than emissions from every car, train and plane on Earth.
  • Only 1.3 percent of freshwater is surface waters like lakes and rivers.

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