Once obscured in the back aisle sections of large grocery stores, wide-ranging assortments of fruits and vegetables are now the first thing a potential customer sees as they enter: you can’t miss the mushrooming displays of organic freshness. Consumers are continually becoming well-educated about the impending health risks linked to junk food. Meticulous modern day [...]
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, located in South Asia at the eastern end of the Himalayas, and often referred to as the “The Happiest Place on Earth”, will soon have another reason for keeping that title: the country will be the first to go 100 percent organic in its farming methods. According to Natural Society, [...]
Although it seems that every manufacturer and every store out there is starting to sell “organic” food, clothes, bedding, makeup, etc, what does organic mean? In 2002, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) became the agency in charge of organics in the United States with the National Organic Program, which regulates the standards for [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I see more and more organic wines on store shelves these days, but what options are out there today for organic beer? Some 80 million Americans drink beer, yet organic beer represents still only a sliver of the $7 billion U.S. craft beer market. But this sliver is quickly turning into a slice: [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I always thought cotton was eco-friendly, but I recently heard otherwise. What’s so bad about cotton? And where can I find organic cotton clothing? There’s a lot “bad” about conventionally grown cotton – cotton grown with the aid of synthetic chemicals, that is. The Organic Trade Association (OTA), a nonprofit trade group representing [...]
Today’s post is by my friend John Hamilton Farr, who blogs at FarrFeed and shows the real New Mexico at FotoFeed How To Deal With Bugs… Organically, Of Course! Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading, right? The year was 1970. I was off to help some friends in central New Hampshire build a couple of log [...]
