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Factory food

Why the cheap, mass-produced food we eat is killing our environment, our economy — and us
Since Squanto taught the Pilgrims to plant maize, no food has been more emblematic of the evolution of American eating habits than corn. That's been true from the sepia-tinged golden age of the Midwestern breadbasket to the present day, where those yellow kernels are lab-engineered and recombinated into a dizzying array of futuristic foodstuffs.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  June 25, 2009

Ode to fiddleheads

Going green
Do you have pteridomania?
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  May 13, 2009
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20 reasons the Earth will be glad to see Bush go

As our 43rd president scrambles to screw further with Mother Nature, a look at the ways our planet will be better off under Obama
The planet Earth usually tries to stay out of politics. It doesn't endorse candidates. It doesn't run attack ads. It doesn't even register as a lobbyist.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  December 19, 2008
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Bringing up Baby

The most famous three-legged, barkless dog in the world
Few things in life are certain, but this is: a gentle, white miniature poodle named Baby is the most famous three-legged, barkless dog in the world.  
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  October 01, 2008
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Pick what you eat

Fans of organic food: Stop talking, start weeding
In just a few hours, go beyond the agri-tourism of picking berries or apples, and actually learn something about the land.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 20, 2008

Eco-booze, eco-buzz

Going green
Why drink organic booze? There might be a practical reason: fewer, or less-aggressive, hangovers.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  June 11, 2008

Corporate Shopping Alternative

Going green
There are still some shares available at regional community-supported agriculture operations, for the lucky ones (myself included) to snatch up over the next month or so.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  March 19, 2008
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Mastering the motion

‘Masters of Motion’ in Providence
“Masters of Motion” is the kind of catch-all title for a dance bill that encompasses everything and puts you in mind of nothing.
By JEFFREY GANTZ  |  February 12, 2008
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Hungry at the Holiday

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank battles a worsening hunger problem
Most of the food banks and soup kitchens across the United States emerged during the so-called Reagan recession of the early 1980s.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 12, 2007

Pet sounds

Going green
This summer, I got two kittens of my very own, and I am completely obsessed with them.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  November 07, 2007
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Mowed down

The federal Farm Bill leaves Mainers in the dust
Libby describes Leahy’s spot on the committee as “good for new England — because without that voice we’d be invisible.”
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 15, 2007

Man bites dog

Politics and other mistakes
I like dogs better than bureaucrats.
By AL DIAMON  |  June 20, 2007
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Build it and they will come

WHAT opens its new Julie Harris Stage
The drive out Route 6 past the Orleans rotary gets ever more twee as the landscape changes to the scrubby pine and sandy margins of outer Cape Cod.
By IRIS FANGER  |  June 11, 2007
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Technopolis lost

A development dream that didn’t come true
It was a grand vision. Maybe even a noble one. “TECHNOPOLIS.”
By MARTY D. WOLFAND  |  December 06, 2006
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The big cheese

Any way you slice it, cheese is growing in popularity at restaurants all over town
Is cheese the new breakthrough trend?
By LOUISA KASDON  |  October 30, 2006
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Hot and bothered

How could another century of global warming change Portland? Here’s a hint — sell your skis
I believe President George Bush V when he says we don’t really need the polar ice sheets anyway.
By SARA DONNELLY  |  May 31, 2006

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