Monsanto Buys Ethanol Plant in Brazil

Posted by Meredith Niles

Posted at Grist, http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/10/102649/05?source=food
 
 
 
At a time when many people were questioning causes of the recent food crisis, many more were investigating how our food systems can move forward to sustainably feed the increasing world population. Recently, the U.N. Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development released a report touting the noteworthy yields [...]

A Message for Obama: Think Trains

Posted by STANLEY CROUCH
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST, New York Daily News
As posted at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/388649_crouchonline21.html
While Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson performs a mysterious magic act in which he shows us what a deregulated bailout looks like, some of us are trying to imagine what President-elect Barack Obama can do to turn our country away from the disastrous and corrupt [...]