Category: Features
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Posted on March 25, 2010
Rooms with a Hue
Veteran professor Jack Kloppenburg takes on a new role helping students figure out what it means to live green.
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Life on the Edge
Restoring grass may not be enough to help grassland birds
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Posted on March 23, 2010
Fixing Our Food: Get Back in the Kitchen
The skill to cook good food is rapidly disappearing in the average American family. Can we get it back? Yes–but not by watching food network.
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Fixing Our Food: Eat Less
Want to preserve the world’s food supply? Start by limiting your own. It just might save your life.
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Fixing Our Food: Get Creative About Food Safety
We’ll never be 100 percent at spotting threats to our food. But what if the pathogens gave themselves up?
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Fixing Our Food: Keep Finding What Makes Food Healthy
Exploring the science of how foods interact with our bodies will lead to healthier foods and lifestyles.
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Fixing Our Food: Give Processed Foods a Break
Don’t believe the reputation: Processing extends the life, safety and quality of foods, and processed foods deserve a place on our shelves.
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Fixing Our Food: Reduce Food Waste
We could be doing better in the battle against hunger if we made fuller use of the food we grow.
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Fixing Our Food: Go Vertical
High-rise greenhouses and other indoor farming systems can get more food into cities that need it the most.
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Fixing Our Food: Teach More People to Farm
Our food production depends on a shrinking number of farmers. Who will succeed them?
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Fixing Our Food: Preserve Our Farmland
442 million acres of American soil grew crops in 2002, the lowest amount of land in farming since World War II.
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Fixing Our Food: Diversify Crops Regionally
Concentrating agricultural production is becoming expensive and risky. We need a broader array of foods grown closer to home.