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Searching for Farming's Future in Its Past
Editor's note, 10.10.08: We're thrilled to announce that this piece has been tapped by the Third Coast International Audio Festival as the winner of a 2008 "Best Documentary" award. Moreover, it's the first podcast (as opposed to radio story) ever to win in any category in the eight years of the competition. Congratulations to Rachel Leventhal on seeing her fine work honored!
The Bobolink Dairy in Vernon, New Jersey, makes artisanal grass-fed cheese and wood-fired bread. That's plenty of work all by itself, but Jonathan and Nina White, Bobolink's owners, have a larger goal in mind: to reinvent pre-industrial agriculture for a post-industrial age. Journalist Rachel Leventhal spent two days at the Bobolink Dairy and produced this audio documentary.
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» View Rachel Leventhal's companion photo essay
» Read Elizabeth Royte's And On Your Left a Grass-Fed Cow, from OnEarth Magazine's Fall 2007 issue -
The Promise (and Perils) of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology already is being used to reformulate many of the products we use. Yet despite concern among scientists about dangerous consequences, the federal government has taken a laissez faire approach – allowing companies to do, essentially, whatever they choose. Why is there such lax oversight of these exotic, new nanomaterials, and what does that mean for consumers? Reporter Alex Schmidt finds out. Read the related Fall 2007 feature story here.
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Milking Wind, Instead of Cows
Like most of the dairy farmers in Lewis County, New York, Bill Burke was in debt. His plan for retirement was to sell off much of his dairy farm. That was until a businessman rolled into town with a new idea: Milk wind, not cows. Now Bill, his wife and many of the other farmers in Lewis County receive a minimum of $6,000 per year for every wind turbine on their properties. That’s changed things plenty. Read the related Summer 2007 feature story here.
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Helping China Go Green
NRDC President Frances Beinecke just paid a visit to China, where NRDC has a rapidly growing team of lawyers and policy experts. Frances talks with Daniel Hinerfeld about China’s unprecedented growth, and the remarkable opportunities that exist to green the world’s most populous nation.
» Read The China Syndrome, from OnEarth's Summer 2007 issue
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Kicking Consumerism
Could you endure 30 days of consumer celibacy – one whole month without buying anything new (well, virtually anything)? Writer Wendee Holtcamp gave it a try, and it wasn’t easy. OnEarth Magazine senior editor Laura Wright talks with Wendee about the challenges and rewards of resisting our throwaway culture.
» Read My 30 Days of Consumer Celibacy, from OnEarth's Summer 2007 issue
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Razing Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Mining's Terrible Cost
Mountaintop removal mining is flattening the peaks of Appalachia and filling its rivers with toxic waste. The practice violates the Clean Water Act, but deft maneuvering by the Bush administration has enabled the mining industry to continue blowing up mountains and poisoning water ways. Erik Reece, a writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky and author of Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, talks with the NRDC’s Daniel Hinerfeld about the implications for Appalachia. The podcast includes an excerpt from a speech by NRDC Senior Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
» Read Appalachian Apocalypse in OnEarth's Summer 2007 issue
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A Legal Eagle Lands: Peter Lehner, NRDC's New Executive Director
NRDC's new executive director Peter Lehner came to NRDC last November from the New York Attorney General's office, where he was the state's top environmental enforcer. He arrives at a pivotal moment, as Americans seem to be waking up to the reality of global warming. Peter talks with Emily Cousins about NRDC's new market transformation center, a changing energy future, and what individuals can do to steer the country in the right direction.
» Read Fieldwork: Peter Lehner from OnEarth's Summer 2007 issue
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Doing Good in the Second Life 'Metaverse'
Could Second Life, the buzz-generating virtual hangout for millions of digerati and their avatars, help improve that other place called Real Life? OnEarth's Laura Wright talks with Lisa Selin Davis, who wrote about "the metaverse" in OnEarth's Spring 2007 issue.
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» Second Life
» Synthetic Worlds Initiative at Indiana University -
Inside the Diesel Death Zone
Following up on journalist Wade Graham’s feature in OnEarth’s Spring 2007 issue, Daniel Hinerfeld reports from the port city of Long Beach, California, on the price harbor communities pay for our reliance on cheap consumer goods from overseas.
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A Conversation with Bill McKibben, Founder of 'Step It Up' Global Warming Campaign
Frustrated by political gridlock in Washington, writer Bill McKibben and some fellow Vermonters decided they had to do something to draw attention to the shrinking window of opportunity we have to curb global warming. So they began a seat-of-the-pants campaign that has caught fire and is now expected to produce, on April 14, 2007, the largest global warming demonstrations ever seen. OnEarth's George Black talks with him about how Step It Up 2007 is building a mass movement -- fast.
Related:
» Global Warning: Get Up! Stand Up! from OnEarth's Spring 2007 issue
» Step It Up 2007Solve Global Warming!
» NRDC: Beat the Heat
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