Joel Salatin imagines an ideal environment for breeding pathogens and disease, a depiction that shockingly describes most modern industrial agricultural facilities. Stressing the backwardness of regulations, Salatin mockingly explains, "But...

(Earth Focus: Episode 24) Three new films are exploring some of the pressing issues related to water. James Thebaut's film "Running Dry: Beyond the Brink" looks at water scarcity and...

In this Earth Focus interview, James Thebaut discusses his new film "Running Dry: Beyond the Brink." The film looks at water scarcity and explores the impact that a changing climate...

In this Earth Focus interview, filmmaker Ana Sofia Joanes speaks about her new film "Fresh," and points out why today's industrial agriculture is unsustainable. "Fresh" promotes a new way of...

Jonathan Safran Foer, author of "Eating Animals", claims agribusiness is guilty of "the worst kind of manipulation." He says the lies range from leading people to believe there's a "well...

In this Earth Focus interview, Oxfam's Gawain Kripke discusses climate change and its effects on global food security. Aside from more obvious, immediate effects, more insidious results of climate...

(Earth Focus: Episode 18) This Earth Focus special illustrates the impact of climate change today, on the eve of the Copenhagen talks. Was climate change avoidable, or is it the...

In this week's climate change story, witness the devastating effects of climate change on agriculture and farming. In addition to heat waves, floods and droughts killing off cattle and crops,...

This film takes us from local farms to farmers' markets to kitchens to tables, celebrating one of the most influential pioneers and leaders in the organic and local-food movement, Nora...

(Part 1) This Link TV special brings you celebrated author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food) as he takes on the industrialization of the U.S. food system,...

(Part 2) Author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food) as he takes on the industrialization of the U.S. food system, and proposes dramatic solutions to America's addiction...

(Latin Pulse: September 1, 2009) In this episode of Latin Pulse we focus on the struggle between Argentine food farmers and transnational soy producers. The soy producers bribe landowners and...

"Estimates are between 10-15% of all atmospheric carbon could be returned to the soil with sustainable agriculture practices," says author Michael Pollan. He suggests developing a method to measure and...

Pucarumi lies at the foot of the Ausangate glacier in the uplands of Peru. Here, herders rely on pastures fed by glacier melt to feed their animals and irrigate...