Mia MacDonald, Brighter Green’s Executive Director, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the New York City Group of the national environmental organization, the Sierra Club.

Brighter Green has gathered reports, media articles, policy papers and other materials on factory farming and its impacts on the world’s environment, public health, animals, poverty and food security. Click here to visit the Resources section.

The following op-ed, co-written with Hope Ferdowsian, director of the Washington Center for Clinical Research, a division of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, appeared in the The Oregonian on Sunday, December 30, 2007 (circulation 370,000).

Just in time for the UN climate change meeting taking place in Bali, Indonesia, December 3-14, comes the inaugural issue of Environmental News, produced by the Nairobi-based Indigenous Information Network through a partnership with Brighter Green.

Executive Director Mia MacDonald spoke about the globalization of industrial meat production on Saturday, November 3rd at an all-day conference co-sponsored by EarthSave Chicago and the University of Chicago’s Vegan Society.

Mia MacDonald of Brighter Green and Gene Baur of Farm Sanctuary describe their vision for food, farming and agriculture as the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill is debated.

Brighter Green and Farm Sanctuary’s white paper on the farm bill was the subject of an article in Connecticut’s Record-Journal.

Coverage by Web-based news and information sources.

Brighter Green and Farm Sanctuary’s 2007 farm bill white paper leads agribusiness publication news.

Collaborative analysis published: The 2007 Farm Bill: A New Vision for U.S. Agriculture, Food Production and Healthy Eating