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Seattle Startup Is A Food Desert Oasis, Housed In Recycled Shipping Containers

Stockbox, a new Seattle startup that was recently funded on Kickstarter, is bringing fresh food to a place where it takes 45 minutes to get to the nearest grocery store.READ»

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Microsoft Scores a Coup in Federal Cloud Services War

Google and Microsoft are battling over the federal market for cloud services. Microsoft just closed the 120,000-employee USDA.READ»

Innovation Agents: Dr. Jason Clay, SVP of Market Transformation, World Wildlife Fund

From plowing the family farm in Missouri, to fostering a conscious consumption fad in Rainforest Crunch ice cream, Dr. Jason Clay has made his life's work sustainable.READ»

Old Farmer's Day

"Taxpayers are told subsidies help small, struggling family farmers -- but that couldn't be further from the truth," says Don Carr of the Environmental Working Group, which calculated that the wealthiest 10% of American farmers ...READ»

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Researchers Make Fish Feed Out of Gruesome Fish Byproducts

The USDA and scientists at the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii are developing fish feed from fish byproducts--including heads, tails, bones, skins, and internal organs.READ»

The Curious Case of USASpending.gov's Missing $1.3 Trillion

Watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation analyzed 10 million lines of data--and discovered trillions of dollars missing from our federal spending database.READ»

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Open Thread: Should the FDA Control Junk Food Marketing?

Now that tobacco advertisements have been cut down to size by the U.S. government's Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act (no more color ads for tobacco, audio ads that use music or sound effects, mail-in cigarette coupons ...READ»

Food Insecurity Is Growing. What Can We Do?

While food production increases and more people are overweight, 17 million households don't have enough food to get by--up 3.5% since 2007.READ»