Stephanie Ogburn’s Posts

• The Contrarian's Dilemma

  James McWilliams' over-hyped and undercooked anti-locavore polemic 15

  Posted 2 months ago

  In his new book Just Food, the historian James McWilliams lectures local-food activists on why they should learn to love pesticides and food shipped in from across the globe. 

• Strengthening the Movement by Shrinking It

  An interview with the innovators behind ioby.org 0

  Posted 5 months, 1 week ago

  Can small-scale, local giving have a large-scale environmental impact? The anti-NIMBY activists behind the first green micro-lending site think so. Stephanie Ogburn reports.

• Diversity in the field, and at the table

  A multicolored good food movement 0

  Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago

  As the good food movement matures, its members have begun discussing its inclusiveness. This week, at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s ninth Food and Society Conference, speaker after speaker touched upon the topic of race and access to good food.

• Dispatches From the Fields: Your tax dollars at work

  Big ag, little ag, and government support 0

  Posted 1 year ago

  In "Dispatches From the Fields," Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape.

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  Nicolas Enjalbert, a graduate student at Colorado State University, shows off a trial of an oilseed crop, camelina, that could potentially be used for biodiesel feed stock.

  Stephanie Paige Ogburn

  In the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to attend a couple of events… Read More

• Dispatches From the Fields: Back to the garden

  On the transformative potential of community-scale food production 4

  Posted 1 year, 1 month ago

  In "Dispatches From the Fields," Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape.

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  This spring, someone transformed the vacant lot across the street from my in-town apartment here in Cortez, a town of 8,000 in southwest Colorado. Until the transformation, I had never really noticed the parcel of land. It wasn't an after-hours hangout, was never vandalized, and was thus invisible to me as I ran, biked, or drove by it nearly… Read More

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  or what about the fainting goats? i love them. but only on video - their pics aren't quite as cute.On How CBO budget scoring devalues efficiency ... WITH PUPPIES! posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago 9 Responses

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  Great post, Dave. Love the puppies. Can we get some meerkats in the next one?On How CBO budget scoring devalues efficiency ... WITH PUPPIES! posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago 9 Responses

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  Are back-to-the landers (arguably one of the main founding groups of the modern-day sustag movement) considered elites? How about Sir Albert Howard and Jerome Rodale? How about Wendell Berry and Francis Moore Lappe? I would characterize the alternative ag movement as being embraced by elites, but not generally characterize it as being "founded" by them. Perhaps these people, being largely educated, can be characterized as "elite." But I am unsure if I would follow Pollan's lead in characterizing the movement as being "founded by" elites, particularly if you examine the origins of the organic farming movement, which played a very large role in creating the alt-ag movement we have today.On Pollan shoots down organic myths at Grist event posted 1 month ago 25 Responses

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  I have a few to add: (in the spirit of blatant self promotion and tweeps I love)

  
  @SustAgDavis - info on all things related to sustainable agriculture, with a focus on the activities on the Agricultural Sustainibility Institute at UC Davis

  @HighCountryNews - all the important environmental news in the 11 Western States

  @NewWest - Western growth and environment news

  @EnviroLawNews - good wonky news on environmental law

   

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  On Top Twitterers the Grist staff can't live without posted 4 months ago 5 Responses

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  Looks like there will be an offsets market for ag, regulated by USDA, if this article is correct. Basically, this is pure politics. It's a great lesson in how science and good practice is trumped by special interests, and how the Senate gives inordinate power to individual senators who represent tiny special interest groups.

   

  On Big Ag aims its pitchfork at historic climate legislation posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago 7 Responses