Low Income Patrons Boost Greenmarket Mission NEW YORKL A new report finds food stamp use at greenmarkets across the city has more than doubled over the past year. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn says food stamp spending at local greenmarkets has reached more than $226,000 -- up from about $100,000 in 2008. The dramatic increase is a result of bolstered funding for Electronic Benefit ...
... four hundred years ago today, a group of illegal immigrants who didn't even speak the language snuck into this country, ostensibly to work. However, despite their desire to get jobs in the agriculture industry (where most illegalimmigrants worked at the time), these lazy immigrants just ended up living off of the government. What we celebrate today is the receipt of the first welfare check. Of ...
.... Nearly the entire area north of Nebraska Avenue NW was forest until the 1920s. The federal government's presence in the city was minimal: Only the White House, Capitol, Treasury, Interior, and Agriculture buildings (the northern half, anyway) existed before 1932. The massive federal buildings known as Federal Triangle were, at the time, nothing more than a slum -- the notorious "Murder Bay." ...
...of the super-turkey might be nigh. Virginia Tech scientists announced this week that they have secured funding to complete the genetic map of Meleagris gallopavo, the domesticated turkey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a two-year, $908,000 grant to Tech and the University of Minnesota to finish decoding the turkey, one of a few species to be mapped at the genetic level. Turkeys ...
... no borders groups. See http://info.interactivist.net/node/13135 15th December: Resistance is Ripe! AgricultureAction Day - Collective action in support of changing the globalfood production system. See http://www.climate-justice-action.org/mobilization/agriculture-action-day 16th December: Reclaim Power! Pushing for Climate Justice - This is the biggie. ...
... no borders groups. See http://info.interactivist.net/node/13135 15th December: Resistance is Ripe! AgricultureAction Day - Collective action in support of changing the globalfood production system. See http://www.climate-justice-action.org/mobilization/agriculture-action-day 16th December: Reclaim Power! Pushing for Climate Justice - This is the biggie. ...
... by God, and the point of our voices is to perform miracles." "What sorts of miracles?" "Umm… well, the most common requests we get—got—at Golan were weather interventions. Since it's mostly agriculture in our region, the weather was critical to farming and the like." A weather intervention had been Wyn's first solo miracle, back when he was still in training. "Itinvolved flying up into the ...
... powered airships saw the influence of Atlantis spread across the whole world. That influence became the great political power of Atlantis. In an age when many nations had yet to properly understand even agriculture, such alien technology was to be feared and respected. The people of the world began coming to Atlantis for advice on all matters, big and small, and almost never refused what we had ...
Every now and then, I am engaged in a discussion about the future of the world. Things like recycling and energy efficiency come up. Things like the intrinsic cruelty implicit in industrialised agriculture, and how actually a cow is actually quite expensive in terms of the food it consumes over it's lifespan. And then we often get onto energy security - rates of consumption of oil. And how we ...
Hai Vo - 2009 Brower Youth Award recipient Hai Vo co-founded the Real Food Challenge (RFC) at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) after he radically transformed his health by learning to eat nutritious food. RFC is a national organization with representatives from more than 300 colleges in the United States dedicated to reallocating the four billion dollars spent annually on food at...
