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The Coming Global Food Fight
Food prices around the world are surging. Between July of last year and this January alone, the price of wheat has doubled. Indeed, the cost of food has now passed the record levels of 2008. . . . . . when angry citizens staged…Read More -
The SeedZoo™ Project
Richters is proud to introduce SeedZoo™, a project to preserve traditional and indigenous food plants from around the world. Teaming up with botanical explorers and ethnobotanists, we are searching for rare and endangered food plants that home gardeners can grow…Read More -
Chemicals in Our Food: FAQs
Supermarkets carry an average of more than 38,000 different items on their shelves. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Food Additives Project estimates that there are more than 10,000 chemicals allowed in food that help make this variety possible. These chemicals…Read More -
Cornerstones of a Rooted Economy
Have a gas,” a friend chuckles as she bids us adieu from our town of Takoma Park, Maryland. It is a fitting send-off since we are traveling to Trinidad and Tobago, a country known by some for its gas and…Read More -
Our Soldiers Killing and Dying for Dirt
In gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles, most of the fuel’s energy (70 – 72%) is lost within the engine primarily as heat. Smaller amounts of energy are lost through engine friction, that is from pumping air into and out of the engine. . . …Read More
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Cornerstones of a Rooted Economy
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 January 2014 13:27
Have a gas,” a friend chuckles as she bids us adieu from our town of Takoma Park, Maryland. It is a fitting send-off since we are traveling to Trinidad and Tobago, a country known by some for its gas and oil, and by many others for its raucous carnival. We are headed that way neither for gas nor carnival, nor to loll with Europeans at Tobago’s upscale eco-tourism facilities.
Rather, we are journeying to see the other face of the country, to spend time in communities of rooted small fishers in northern Trinidad. Just a few hours away from Trinidad’s capital of Port of Spain, the center of carnival frenzy and the ports from which the oil and gas are shipped, our base is the fishing villages of Trinidad’s rugged northern coast where visitors seldom venture.
Chemicals in Our Food: FAQs
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- Published on Friday, 10 January 2014 14:46
Supermarkets carry an average of more than 38,000 different items on their shelves. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Food Additives Project estimates that there are more than 10,000 chemicals allowed in food that help make this variety possible. These chemicals perform many functions, including enhancing the taste or appearance of food, preventing spoilage, and packaging the products.
Related: More resources from the food additives initiative
Our Soldiers Killing and Dying for Dirt
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 January 2014 13:09
In gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles, most of the fuel’s energy (70 – 72%) is lost within the engine primarily as heat. Smaller amounts of energy are lost through engine friction, that is from pumping air into and out of the engine. . .