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Milestones and Momentum – What is Driving Growth in Renewable Energy and Holding It Back in Organic Food and Farming?

Posted on June 16, 2017 in Hygeia's Blog, Organic | 238 Views | Leave a response

National Geographic ran a June 15, 2017 story by Sarah Gibbens entitled “Renewable Energy Record Set in the U.S.” It’s opening paragraph reports the good news – “The U.S. set a new renewable energy milestone in March, in data released Wednesday. For the first time, wind and solar accounted for 10 percent of all electricity […]

Farm Journal Foundation Calls for Doubling of Public Ag Research Funding

Posted on March 1, 2017 in Hygeia's Blog, Scientific Integrity | 219 Views | Leave a response

Backed up by a glossy report by two ag economists from the University of Minnesota, the Farm Journal Foundation has issued a remarkably unimaginative call for a doubling of public funding for agricultural research…because U.S. ag research funding is falling behind China, Brazil, India…and because we have to feed 9 billion people. Over the years there […]