Wicked Cool World of Organics - Edition 35

This week's dose of organic headlines, updates, resources, goodies, and recipes courtesy of Doug Snodgrass...

This is kind of like Super Friends gone organic.

The farmer cooperative behind the Organic Valley label put on some weight Monday when it announced a deal to manufacture and sell Stonyfield Farms milk, the Londonderry, N.H., company that sells about 13 million gallons annually.

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CROPP, which calls itself the nation's largest organic farming cooperative, has supplied the milk for Stonyfield yogurt for 10 years. The two companies often act more like colleagues than competitors, said Stonyfield Farms CEO Gary Hirshberg.

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The REAL Cure for Climate Change (+Videos)

Don’t expect climate change to get fixed by the governments of the world.  Don’t expect that, however noble in intention, the efforts of Gore, McKibben, Stern, and their many cohorts will succeed either.  Not on any large scale.  It won’t be clean tech or green products saving the day either. 

Climate change, like energy scarcity, water pollution, and other serious global issues is merely one symptom of a larger global problem.  Tackle the symptoms individually, and at best you might get lackluster results.  Tackle the source of the problem, and everything attached to it will be positively ...

Environmental Change To Impact Health of Millions Via Threats To Food, Air and Water

New report paints the human race’s picture as grim and unstable if more action isn’t taken against climate change to protect the “building blocks” of large populations.

In the run-up to historic climate talks in Copenhagen, a new report by the Worldwatch Institute and United Nations Foundation (U.N.F) warns that mankind’s impact on the environment threatens not just the health of other species, but of the human race as well.

The report, Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health, notes that rapid changes in climate and land are shifting the distribution of diseases like ...

'Please Mr President' - Children Make a Video Plea To Obama

Have a look at this video, recently posted by WWF. It shows American youth calling on President Obama to personally attend the imminent climate change conference in Denmark next month.

The clip features children discussing the impending effects of global warming on their nation and the world, as well as discussing the steps necessary to combat these effects. Most importantly they all ask their president to lead the way in negotiations at Copenhagen, an act only made possible by his attendance!

To learn more about WWF's efforts to secure Senate passage of comprehensive climate change legislation this year, visit ...

Road to Copenhagen - Part 6

Money-Changers in Democracy’s Temple: There is a scene in the New Testament (Matthew 21:12) where Jesus throws the money-changers out of the temple.  We could use some of that in the halls of Congress. 

While the U.S. Capitol is not the National Cathedral, members of Congress are the custodians of a sacred trust: to protect the vitality and integrity of the extraordinary experiment the Founders began. For example, the debate about climate change isn’t just about polar bears and energy prices. It’s about whether a free people will be a responsible people, a capitalist economy ...