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Weekly Environmental News Highlights – 8/20/09

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It seems the more people wake up to environmental sustainability, holistic health, and whole food nutrition, the stronger the backlash from corporate interests. But the rising tide of interest in a more sustainable, nourishing way of life will not be contained. In that spirit, here are this week’s Green Links: 

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Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 2

In the tradition of Michael Moore (Sicko, Bowling for Columbine) and Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, 30 Days), Food Matters is a hard hitting, fast-paced look at our current state of health. Discouraged by the terrible side effects that pharmaceutical drugs were having on the health of their families, nutritionists-turned-filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch set off on [...]

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Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 1

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I am studying for an MS in holistic nutrition, and as a result, learning more and more about our industrialized food system, and its related health problems such as obesity, diabetes, allergies, cancer and more. The more I learn, the more uppity I am becoming about food. Next to air and water, food is our most [...]

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