The year 2009 was a particularly challenging one for independent farmers like Teri Rosendahl. With the global financial crisis in full swing, small family...
Ecological justice
In the last half century, food eaters and food providers in the United States have prioritized food quantity, the “all-you-can-eat” model, over food quality...
Genetic modification has yielded major changes in the way we grow our food, but concerns are cropping up over whether a bigger harvest means a better—or...
I grew up in the arid West: the land of prairie, tumbleweed, and newly-constructed subdivisions. I remember, as a kid, noticing the paradox between public...
Some of us take for granted the most precious resource of all. Lack of water harms families not only in the Third World, but also here at home. It’s 9 a.m. in...
As the bee population declines, we can either listen to the buzz or feel the sting. For years scientists have been puzzling over a vast die-off of bees in the...
“We’ve gotten away from the real meaning of food, and the power of food,” Michael Pollan told us in a December 2013 interview. The famous food author has...
Movies can help us find perspective on our own existence by taking us to infinity and beyond. Hollywood and the film industry have been called many things...
At many Catholic colleges, an environmental revolution is under way. Out with the ubiquitous plastic water bottles, the reams of wasted paper, the showers that...
So-called “cheap” energy sources will have a high cost for future generations. We have been told that we live in a threshold age of energy production, an era...
