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  • Amy Goldman: The Champion of Heirlooms

    Amy Goldman: The Champion of Heirlooms

    Gardener, author, artist, philanthropist and advocate for seed saving, Amy Goldman is one of the foremost heirloom plant conservationists in the United States. She talks with OC about her wonderful, colorful and flavorful passion....

  • Michael Pollan: The Missing Part of the Food Chain

    Michael Pollan: The Missing Part of the Food Chain

    The well-known author and food activist talks with Organic Connections about his latest book, Cooked. He says it was the most fun he’s had as a journalist, and shares some of his insights on the importance of cooking....

  • Tal Ronnen: Top Vegan Chef

    Tal Ronnen: Top Vegan Chef

    Vegan chef to the stars—from Oprah to Ellen to the US Senate—Ronnen previews his new LA restaurant, his role in Lyfe Kitchen and his mission to prepare great-tasting food for vegetarians, carnivores, flexitarians and everyone in between....

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  • Pliny Fisk III: The Appropriate Technologist

    Sustainable leg­end and founder of the Austin-based Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Pliny Fisk III talks with OC about his unique career and new ways to employ sim­ple tech­nolo­gies to reduce the bur­den we place on our planet.

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  • Iron Chef Jose Garces: The Rich Flavors of Culture

    Renowned Iron Chef Jose Garces dis­cusses his pas­sion for regional cuisines, his 40-acre “green” farm, sus­tain­able prac­tices in his restau­rants, the joy of cook­ing, and bring­ing peo­ple together over food.

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  • Wade Davis: The Modern Voice of Ancient Wisdom

    Noted anthro­pol­o­gist, explorer, author and pho­tog­ra­pher Wade Davis shares some of the ancient wis­dom and rich­ness of the cul­tures he has stud­ied, and explains his con­vic­tion that every cul­ture has some­thing to teach our mod­ern world.

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  • Arran Stephens: Following Nature’s Path

    Sustainable leg­end and founder of Nature’s Path, Arran Stephens shares how the ideals he brought back from a youth­ful stay in India are still alive in the largest organic cereal com­pany in North America.

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  • Alex Bogusky: The Consumer Revolution’s Fearless Advocate

    Named Creative Director of the Decade by Adweek mag­a­zine, Alex Bogusky has been called “per­haps the most influ­en­tial fig­ure in American adver­tis­ing today.” He tells OC how he became a fear­less advo­cate in the con­sumer revolution.

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Web-only Features

Life Lessons from Sprout Creek Farm

Life Lessons from Sprout Creek Farm

Sprout Creek Farm is an edu­ca­tional farm in New York State. Suffering for lack of fund­ing, the farm has seen some rough times in its 31 years. But those expe­ri­ences have been turned into the lessons for students—lessons they never forget.

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From the Publisher

Can You Create Your Own Future?

Can You Create Your Own Future?

There has been a lot of learned philo­soph­i­cal dis­course about how much of a say we have in cre­at­ing our own futures. I’m not going to add to that dia­logue. Instead, let’s approach it sim­ply and practically.

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Recent News

The Dark Side of

The Dark Side of "Healthy" Food Marketing to Children

The food mar­ket­ing indus­try is happy to play along when advo­cates call for “health­ier” food for chil­dren. Corporate lob­by­ists invented “vol­un­tary self-regulation” to con­vince us they’re pro­tect­ing children.

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Food Safety Action Center

In Association with the Center for Food Safety

Farm Bill Action: Tell Congress to Protect Organic Farmers and Honey Bees

Farm Bill Action: Tell Congress to Protect Organic Farmers and Honey Bees

Tell Congress to sup­port amend­ments to the House Farm Bill that will pro­tect farm­ers from GMO con­t­a­m­i­na­tion, pro­tect pol­li­na­tors from pes­ti­cides, and restore fund­ing to vital organic programs.

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GMO Foods

Former GMO Engineer Drops Biotech and Goes Organic

Former GMO Engineer Drops Biotech and Goes Organic

The career of Thierry Vrain has spanned the full range of agriculture—from “chem­i­cal” agri­cul­ture and genetic engi­neer­ing to being an advo­cate of organic farm­ing and an oppo­nent of GMOs.

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Video Theater

Urban Farming: A Tale of Two Rooftops

Urban Farming: A Tale of Two Rooftops

Urban farm­ing, and par­tic­u­larly rooftop farms, seems to be an obvi­ous way to make pos­i­tive change in our food systems.

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