a couple years back, in a wheat field outside the town of Reardan, Washington, Fred Fleming spent an afternoon showing me just how hard it's gotten to save the world. After decades as an unrepentant industrial farmer, the tall 59-year-old realized that his standard practices were promoting erosion s...

When President Obama addresses the nation tonight in a State of the Union fashion, it won't just be Congress and members of the public tuning in. Special interests, too, will be paying close attention to what the president has to say about upcoming plans that could affect them. While the president w...

Back at about this time in January, we wrote a review of Eat The View, the from-the-ground-up activist effort to get the Obama White House to break ground on a vegetable garden in front of the White House (perhaps a bit early in the year, but a well-intentioned effort nonetheless). One month later, ...

It's no secret that President-elect Obama, his new Cabinet and the 111th Congress have some seemingly insurmountable tasks in front them, the most pressing of which is to fix the tanking economy (and fast!). But their agenda also includes sweeping reform of the health care system; slowing global war...

Like a gas tank hungry for cheap fuel, Americans are yearning for an energy policy from their next president. Recognizing the importance of the energy issue in November's election, both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have been touting their plans, but consumers aren't the only ones...

Inter Press Service: Brazil is a world leader in agriculture and on several environmental issues, but it will find it hard to reconcile both fronts, judging by the many battles lost by former environment minister Marina Silva, in spite of the political clout she wielded for over five years. The adva...

Inter Press Service: Brazil is a world leader in agriculture and on several environmental issues, but it will find it hard to reconcile both fronts, judging by the many battles lost by former environment minister Marina Silva, in spite of the political clout she wielded for over five years. The adva...

Inter Press Service: Brazil is a world leader in agriculture and on several environmental issues, but it will find it hard to reconcile both fronts, judging by the many battles lost by former environment minister Marina Silva, in spite of the political clout she wielded for over five years. The adva...

MANILA, April 11 -- More than anywhere else in Asia, the soaring price of rice has become a good-vs.-evil drama in the Philippines, one of the world's largest importers of rice....

MANILA, April 11 -- More than anywhere else in Asia, the soaring price of rice has become a good-vs.-evil drama in the Philippines, one of the world's largest importers of rice....