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- 05/17/12 Working a Bit on Agriculture in Bonn
- 05/04/12 The Judges Have Chosen a Winner: Eat Ethically (If You Can.)
- 04/27/12 Ethical (Meat?) Eating
- 04/25/12 USAID Wants "More Beef" to Feed Growing Population
- 04/20/12 Jacaranda and Wings: Part 2
- 04/18/12 Jacaranda and Wings: Part 1
- 04/13/12 Unspoken Cultural Costs to India’s First Mega-Dairy: Part II
- 04/11/12 Unspoken Cultural Costs to India’s First Mega-Dairy: Part I
- 04/06/12 Growing the Movement for Nature's Rights
- 04/03/12 Low Lying Islands On High Moral Ground
- 03/29/12 Literary Animal: Reading India, Part V
- 03/26/12 A New Health Care Approach: The Right to Healthy Food
- 03/19/12 Millions of Hamburgers without Killing A Cow
- 03/12/12 Literary Animal: Reading India, Part IV
- 03/09/12 Ag-Gags: Where’s the Transparency?
- 03/02/12 Dolphins are Persons Too
- 02/29/12 East African Girls' Initiative December Workshop Report
- 02/24/12 Biodiversity and Advocacy in Technicolor
- 02/10/12 Climate Change Adaptation Training in Micronesia: Part III
- 02/08/12 Climate Change Adaptation Training in Micronesia: Part II
- 02/02/12 Climate Change Adaptation Training in Micronesia: Part I
- 01/27/12 Global Civil Society Workshop Analyzing Rio+20 "Zero Draft"
- 01/24/12 Literary Animal: Reading India, Part III
- 01/16/12 Literary Animal: Reading India, Part II
- 01/05/12 Literary Animal: Reading India, Part I
- 12/20/11 India Paper at Last!
- 12/13/11 Large Scale or Small Scale
- 12/09/11 Ask Him Why He's a Vegetarian
- 12/09/11 The Quiet Ones
- 12/08/11 The Unanswered Question?
- 12/08/11 Children and the COP Climate Summit
- 12/08/11 Winding Down (the Climate?) at the Durban Conference
- 12/06/11 Arriving and Greening
- 12/06/11 Courage and Hesitation in Durban
- 12/05/11 COP 17 Cuisine: Climate-Friendly and Not
- 12/05/11 Killing Bad Incentives, and Not
- 12/04/11 O Brazil
- 12/03/11 Occupy COP and Climate-Smart Agriculture
- 12/03/11 Seasons at COP 17?
- 11/24/11 New Slideshow for Girls' Leadership Program
- 11/20/11 Globalize the Struggle
- 11/16/11 How to Approach Rural Solar
- 11/11/11 Sustaining the 7 Billion
- 11/02/11 DC Conference Follow Up
- 10/28/11 Brighter Green at DC Conference to End Factory Farming
- 10/18/11 Australia Passes Bold Environmental Bill
- 10/14/11 Updated Videos: Ethiopia's Booming Livestock Industry
- 10/06/11 Kansas Governor Urges State to Increase Animal Production
- 09/28/11 Remembering Wangari Maathai: Colleague, Friend, and Inspiration
- 09/26/11 Wangari Maathai
- 09/24/11 More Climate Ethics: E.G., China
- 09/22/11 Whose Climate? Whose Ethics?
- 09/16/11 Storming the Court House for Beans?
- 09/09/11 Smoke and Trees: Brazil's Forests and the Ruralistas
- 08/23/11 New Videos: Exploring India's Expanding Dairy and Beef Industries
- 08/22/11 The Growing Political Presence of Ethanol
- 08/17/11 Ex-Battery Caged Hens given a Second Chance at Life
- 08/09/11 East Africa's Ongoing Drought and Changing Climate
- 07/26/11 Largest McDonald's on Earth to Open For London's 2012 Olympic Games
- 07/21/11 Roman Oratory...and the Environment?
- 07/19/11 EWG Releases "Meat Eaters Guide to Health and Climate, 2011"
- 07/12/11 UN: Small Scale Agriculture for Food Security
- 07/03/11 India’s Divine and Defiled Rivers
- 06/29/11 Mexican Drug Cartels Tied to Cattle Ranching in Guatemala
- 06/23/11 Global Livestock: Adding up the Numbers
- 06/14/11 The Hamster that Roared--and Cows' Reprieve
- 06/08/11 China: Animals and the Environment
- 05/26/11 Brazilian Deforestation Rates on the Rise; BG Research
- 05/20/11 What's for Dinner? Screens in Korea
- 05/10/11 Under the Same Sun: Testing Solar Power in Brooklyn for Kenya
- 05/06/11 China Enacts New Efforts to Ensure Food Safety
- 05/02/11 Not Your Parents' National Geographic
- 04/26/11 East African Girls on Break; Heading Back to School Soon
- 04/22/11 Levitating in Shanghai
- 04/15/11 Iowa May Become First State to Outlaw Recording in Animal Facilities
- 04/08/11 China Continues to Strive for Balance Between Development and the Environment
- 04/01/11 Is There Such Thing as 'Sustainable' and 'Humane' Meat on a Global Scale?
- 03/31/11 Visting Dr. Yu's Vegan Hut in Beijing
- 03/18/11 Mega Dairies on the Rise Globally?
- 03/15/11 U.N. Report Finds Huge Potential for "Agroecology" in Developing World
- 03/11/11 Report Released on Maasai Girls' Training Workshop
- 03/08/11 It's International Women's Day - at 100
- 03/01/11 The Cries of Pigs and Cows
- 03/01/11 Record-Setting Droughts in China Could Send Food Prices Even Higher
- 02/25/11 California Moves to Ban Shark Fin Trade
- 02/21/11 A Greening of the Chinese Economy?
- 02/16/11 Will New Guidelines Lead to New Lifestyles?
- 02/11/11 Year of the Rabbit: Whither Chinese Rabbits?
- 02/08/11 Lunar New Year as a Chinese Vegan: Then and Now
- 02/03/11 World Forest Year Is Here
- 02/01/11 Solar Empowered
- 01/28/11 China's Worst Drought in Sixty Years
- 01/18/11 World Vegetable Day? And the State of the World
- 01/13/11 Haiti a Year Later: An Honest Yet Somber Perspective
- 01/07/11 The Ethiopian Vegan Association Launches with Conference and Free Meals
- 01/05/11 The Truth about Sharks: Take a Bite out of the Myths
- 01/02/11 Barbecue, World Records, Beauty, and Brazil
- 12/31/10 New Year, New Trend? Raising Pigs with Chinese Characteristics
- 12/27/10 A Christmas Culling: Foot and Mouth Disease Spreads in South Korea
- 12/20/10 Final Dispatches from Cancun: Conversations and Observations on Food, Agriculture & Climate
- 12/15/10 Hambre in Cancun
- 12/10/10 Cancun Dialogue(s)
- 12/09/10 Cancun and the Legacy of Lee Kyung Hae
- 12/09/10 The Sun Rises in the East, Bringing the Benefits of Solar Power with it
- 12/07/10 Sunrise Rituals to Moon Palace Negotiations: How We Solve the Earth’s Crisis
- 12/07/10 Bring on the Women
- 12/06/10 In Cancun, Can We Talk? Or Not?
- 12/06/10 Buying and Passing Time in Cancun
- 12/05/10 Farming for Our Future
- 12/04/10 Climate Change Talks: Power Down?
- 12/03/10 Who is Paying Attention?
- 12/03/10 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Denmark Paves New Ground In Clean Energy
- 12/03/10 Black Carbon and Coincidences
- 12/03/10 Yes V Cancun
- 12/02/10 In Cancun: The Conference-Goers and the Vacationers
- 11/29/10 From Cochabamba to Pittsburgh, Nature's Rights Are Taking Hold
- 11/22/10 The Amazon River May Run Through It, Or Not
- 11/13/10 In Burma, Both Arms Go Up Again
- 11/11/10 Putting a Price Tag on Nature
- 11/05/10 Obama Visits India: Meat, Cheese and Arms on a Platter
- 11/02/10 Overfishing of the Pacific: How Long Until the Fish - and Everything Else - is Gone?
- 10/29/10 Praising Seitan?
- 10/25/10 Dog Days in Africa...and China
- 10/21/10 Giant Swamp Taro and Other Local Delicacies
- 10/16/10 Peace Prize and A Palate
- 10/14/10 The People's Agreement Prevails in Tianjin
- 10/12/10 Facebook and a Chicken
- 10/02/10 The Commonwealth Games and Gandhi Jayanthi
- 09/30/10 Sowing the Seeds
- 09/27/10 The MDGs and Animal Welfare and Rights
- 09/22/10 Full Steam Ahead for Evo Morales and the Indigenous Environmental Movement
- 09/20/10 Farmers' Markets Fill Void Left by the Supermarket Industry
- 09/20/10 Photos from Lake Nakuru and the Maasai Mara
- 09/15/10 Where Elephants Walk
- 09/07/10 Sri Lankan Vets Strike for Elephants - But What About the Farmers?
- 09/07/10 Wangari Maathai Sends Message to the Africa Animal Welfare Action Conference
- 08/23/10 Biogas: The Future for China’s Livestock Production?
- 08/14/10 Challenges Facing Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado
- 08/13/10 The Complexities of Livestock in Ethiopia
- 07/29/10 China's "Garbage Pig" Problem
- 07/22/10 Water for All?
- 07/17/10 Rhino Redress?
- 07/08/10 UN Climate Change Negotiations: Current Realities and the Way Forward
- 06/24/10 Rooftop Gardens in Hangzhou, China
- 06/21/10 The Gulf Coast Oil Spill: Two Months Later
- 06/16/10 Who Will Protect China's Small Farmers?
- 06/15/10 Raising China's PIgs
- 06/11/10 Bhopal: An Ongoing Tragedy
- 06/04/10 Don't feed the zoo animals (And please don't eat them either)
- 06/01/10 China's Pork Explosion
- 05/27/10 An Uncertain Future
- 05/21/10 Bullfighting: It's Bull Alright
- 05/13/10 Cargill in Tune with Nature?
- 05/06/10 Climate Change: Public Health and Human Survival
- 05/04/10 As Oil Spills Deep Below the Sea, It's Time for Some Deep Changes
- 04/30/10 Building the Foundations of International Indigenous Environmental Law
- 04/28/10 A New Theory of Justice
- 04/27/10 Equality for All Species
- 04/26/10 A Meaty Lunch with Evo, the People's President
- 04/24/10 The Right to Speak: for 60 Seconds?
- 04/22/10 Happy Earth Day
- 04/22/10 Implementing the Rights of Mother Earth
- 04/21/10 Viva La Pachamama!
- 04/20/10 Welcome to Cochabamba
- 04/19/10 Another Meatless Monday
- 04/12/10 Climate Wise Women
- 04/12/10 Five Years On
- 04/09/10 A Beef with That
- 04/05/10 Beyond the Spill
- 04/01/10 Investment Bankers with Wings
- 03/29/10 Lots of conferences, but are we making progress?
- 03/26/10 Diabetes, Water, Forests: Strong Brew
- 03/19/10 Obese and Malnourished?
- 03/11/10 How to Become a Kungfu Master
- 03/04/10 Factory Farming of Chickens in India
- 03/02/10 Got Agribusiness?
- 02/22/10 Ringing in the Chinese New Year
- 02/17/10 Greening the Olympic Games
- 02/17/10 "What's for Dinner?" to be Screened at Apple Store, Beijing
- 02/12/10 Biodiversity's Dollar Value
- 02/09/10 Native New Yorkers, the Four-Legged Kind
- 02/07/10 Fertilizer Futures
- 02/03/10 The Visibility of Vegetarianism: Show me the herbivores!
- 01/31/10 Pig Pericope: Copenhagen and Athens Redux
- 01/26/10 Winged Migration?
- 01/14/10 Haiti's Cycle of Debt, Poverty and Destruction
- 01/08/10 Corporate Control Over Chinese Soy
- 01/07/10 Maathai's Meatrix
- 12/31/09 On Beauty, and Time, Too
- 12/26/09 Vegetarianism: Personal Choice, Interpersonal Consequences
- 12/24/09 Big Fish, Big Trouble: Silver Carp in the Great Lakes
- 12/21/09 Five Minutes for the Climate
- 12/19/09 Did Smoke Get in Their Eyes?
- 12/18/09 Small Farmers…and Farm Futures
- 12/18/09 Waiting—and Sneezing—in Copenhagen
- 12/18/09 Copenhagen Screening: SRO
- 12/17/09 Climate Corrections
- 12/17/09 Contested
- 12/16/09 In Copenhagen, Delete Meat?
- 12/16/09 The Power of One
- 12/15/09 Copenhagen: Gray and Green
- 12/15/09 In Copenhagen, with a Waiting World
- 12/14/09 I'm Cutting Back on Carbon—It Goes Straight to My Hips.
- 12/14/09 NYC Food and Climate Summit a Success, But Still, Little Talk of Meat
- 12/13/09 Copenhagen Calculations (Not CO2)
- 12/11/09 Brighter Green and the Green Belt Movement, in Copenhagen
- 12/10/09 China LOHAS Forum
- 12/07/09 Pass the Grains, Please
- 12/04/09 Can Animals Help Us Reduce Climate Change?
- 12/02/09 Living the Cycle of Drought and Debt
- 11/24/09 Maasai Girls Attend a Weekend Rights-Training Workshop
- 11/20/09 Getting Personal with Food Choices
- 11/18/09 UN Climate Conference 2009: Progress is Bumpy
- 11/16/09 How Food Ads Mislead Us
- 11/13/09 Elephants Can Remember
- 11/06/09 Herbivore’s Dilemma? Is There One?
- 11/03/09 At What Price (Feed)?
- 10/27/09 Sweden's Bold Move
- 10/23/09 Re 350: How Hot is Your Meal?
- 10/21/09 A Bright Green Line
- 10/15/09 Lessons to Learn from India's Embrace of Industrial Agriculture
- 10/09/09 Breakthrough in Technology Worsens Milk Glut
- 10/07/09 My First Nutrition Class
- 10/05/09 Not a Shark Attack
- 10/01/09 Food and Climate Change: The Meat of the Matter
- 09/30/09 Chinese Climate Pledges Come Amid Global Fossil Fuel Purchases
- 09/25/09 Climate Wake Up Call: Answered, or Not?
- 09/21/09 First Lady Champions Local Produce; Administration Pushes Poultry
- 09/18/09 Brain to Brain
- 09/17/09 A Vegan Lifestyle
- 09/14/09 In Search of Sacred Cows
- 09/04/09 Along the Pearl River: Manufacturing, a Multi-Course Meal, and a Meta Narrative
- 09/03/09 Guangdong: Pigs, Pollution, and Politics
- 09/01/09 40 Billion and Counting (Back, That Is)
- 08/29/09 African Leaders Unify Position Ahead of Copenhagen Climate Talks
- 08/21/09 Down on the Ten Thousand Pig Farm
- 08/20/09 Visit to an Indian Piggery in the Time of Swine Flu
- 08/19/09 Two Lunches
- 08/18/09 Chinese Animal Activists say “NO” to China's Film Industry
- 08/13/09 The Indian Egg
- 08/13/09 Mr. Wang Builds His Pig Farm
- 08/12/09 Secretary Clinton's Summer Reading
- 08/10/09 Mr. and Mrs. Yu's Famous Vegan Diner
- 08/07/09 India's Growing Appetite for Chicken
- 08/07/09 From Rockstars to Analysts - Chinese Talk About Vegetarianism, Animal Rights, Climate Change
- 08/04/09 India: A View from the South, and Further North
- 07/30/09 "Meat World: China": Filming Begins
- 07/29/09 Indigenous Communities: Changing Climates, Changing Lives
- 07/26/09 China: Animal Welfare on the Legal Docket
- 07/22/09 Illuminating?
- 07/16/09 Indian Youth Prepare to “Be the Change”
- 07/15/09 Beef - the Wrong Bus
- 07/11/09 Fruit for Thought
- 07/08/09 G8 Leaders Convene as India Waits for its Delayed Monsoon
- 07/01/09 New York City Food Resolution Launched
- 06/30/09 Of Foodprints and Climate - Local Response to Global Problem
- 06/18/09 Climate Movers
- 06/15/09 Pandemic Confirmed
- 06/12/09 Mixed Salad
- 06/10/09 A New Africa
- 06/07/09 Green Fuels and Follies
- 05/18/09 The Rights of Nature
- 05/13/09 Ghent Gets It
- 05/06/09 What Price Spinach?
- 04/30/09 Swine Flu...and a Songbird
- 04/27/09 Afghanistan, Now and Then
- 04/22/09 It's Earth Day, Look North
- 04/20/09 Australia - Dry and Drier
- 04/17/09 China: Unprecedented
- 04/15/09 Holy Cow!
- 04/09/09 Low Carbon Common Sense
- 04/08/09 Fast and Furious
- 04/02/09 Not Enough Heat
- 03/27/09 Seal Reprieve
- 03/25/09 Food and Sovereignty: Ructions
- 03/22/09 Gorilla Year
- 03/18/09 To a Green Thought in a (Recession) Green Shade
- 03/16/09 Madagascar 2 and 2.0
- 03/08/09 Friday Night Climate
- 03/02/09 Trees, Not Arms
- 02/27/09 They're Coming...and Going
- 02/24/09 Trees, Forests, and Carbon Capture
- 02/15/09 Kibera Kale
- 02/04/09 Nothing Fey About This
- 02/03/09 It is the State of the World
- 01/26/09 New Year, Old Flu
- 01/24/09 As the Crow Flies, Away
- 01/14/09 No Heat...No Meat
- 01/03/09 In with the New?
- 12/23/08 Some Pig
- 12/18/08 Mega Fauna, at Large and Not
- 12/15/08 Climate Talks: Forests and Trees
- 12/09/08 Two Als and a Gendered View from Poznan
- 12/04/08 Getting on the Climate Agenda
- 11/30/08 Unusual Duo, But Dynamic To-Do
- 11/21/08 Whales and War Games
- 11/18/08 Green, Baby, Green
- 11/06/08 From Kenya with...Hope
- 11/06/08 California No-Longer-Just Dreaming
- 10/29/08 China, Rights, Land and Milk
- 10/28/08 Congo Conflagration - Again
- 10/16/08 World Food Day
- 10/13/08 Oprah on Animals and Food
- 10/13/08 Two Views from Kenya
- 10/10/08 Denaturing, the Fiscal Crisis and Nature's Rights
- 10/05/08 Post post debate
- 10/01/08 Palin-drone
- 09/30/08 Amazon Update
- 09/26/08 Green for All - September 27th
- 09/25/08 Taking the Climate (and Forests) to Lunch
- 09/21/08 Istanbul, Not Constantinople
- 09/17/08 Meat Heat
- 08/19/08 Skillful Means: A New Report from Brighter Green
- 08/12/08 Food for Thought
- 08/11/08 Primates: Good News and Bad
- 07/02/08 (Inter)National Interest
- 06/27/08 Something's, Well, Fishy
- 06/26/08 Rustling in the Rainforest
- 06/05/08 World Environment Day
- 06/04/08 Food Matters...Again
- 06/02/08 Billion Bag Ban
- 05/21/08 Good Grazing
- 05/12/08 Rosy City
- 05/08/08 World, Warming, in a Coffee Mug
- 05/07/08 Old King Corn
- 04/27/08 Musing
- 04/24/08 A Warming World....in Manhattan
- 04/23/08 Just in Time...
- 04/16/08 New Food Lexicon: What's in a Term?
- 04/09/08 Food Fever
- 03/17/08 Animals and War: Further Dispatches
- 03/12/08 On the Frontlines
- 03/04/08 Disappearing Climates
- 03/03/08 Kenya 3.0: Finally, a Semblance of Peace
- 02/21/08 Mercer and Meat
- 02/18/08 Meat Miasma
- 02/13/08 Message on a (Big) Platter
- 02/10/08 O, Kenya 2.0
- 02/06/08 Avoided ...More Plastic Tales
- 01/17/08 O, Kenya
- 12/23/07 From Bali to Bulbs
- 12/21/07 Food Prices Rising, Developing Countries Most Affected
- 12/02/07 Road to Bali
- 11/30/07 Elephants at Ease, and Not
- 11/15/07 Watching Washoe
- 11/15/07 Global Warming Diet: Lose Weight, Help the Planet
- 10/31/07 Reflecting on Nobel Peace Prizes
- 10/31/07 Dia de Los Muertos: Six Pigs
- 09/26/07 Global Warming and Gender Equity
- 09/19/07 That 11th Hour and Another
- 09/08/07 Farm Aid in NYC: September 9th
- 09/05/07 Congo Gorillas: Possibly in Firing Line
- 08/24/07 Farm Bill: Fate Uncertain, Uncommon Media Interest
- 08/23/07 Making the Links: NY Times Coverage
- 08/21/07 Cows and the Climate: the View from There
- 08/15/07 Ferrets, Footloose
- 08/13/07 The Bags Among Us
- 08/09/07 Elephants Freed, Now What?
- 07/16/07 Mangroves I've Known
- 07/07/07 Just Warming
- 07/05/07 Not Melting, but Flying
- 07/01/07 Jaguars, Burning Bright
- 06/21/07 Brighter Green Produces First Publication
