I realize that most LGM readers don't spend a lot of time thinking about western natural resource politics. But these issues are central to understanding the politics of the West,.
In the spirit of cap and trade, the government has decided its misfounded belief that the free market can be used to solve environmental problems should be applied to water.
I wonder about this new idea of laboratory-grown meat that could replace cows. I confess I'm almost as skeptical about this as I am about Soylent, although I guess at.
The most dangerous workplaces is the family farm, which is why we need a lot more attention paid to working conditions there. This is an outstanding discussion of this easily.
David Bacon, who has done so much great work over the years exposing the plight of Mexican migrants to the U.S., has an excellent piece on how so many of.
Good on the Gulf Restoration Network for suing the Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to regulate the fertilizers and other chemicals that have created the huge biological.
Above: Pig waste lagoon While Out of Sight is primarily about international production and how the global race to the bottom protects companies from accountability for their sourcing practices because.
Nothing motivates the LGM readership like the relationship between agriculture and riparian ecosystems so let's start this Saturday morning with me recommending you read this report from the Chesapeake Bay.
