Genetically engineered foods are "only unnatural if you don't know the biology," says author and futurist Stewart Brand in this speech at the Long Now Foundation from our partners at...
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...
This Earth Focus special features award-winning filmmakers Marilyn and Hal Weiner as they share the experience of making their series "Journey to Planet Earth." Watch excerpts of this influential series, and...
Due to the global economic crisis, Cambodia's textile factories are closing down, leading to thousands losing their jobs throughout the country. Prior to the economic collapse, Cambodia enjoyed a decade...
Michael Pollan discusses Michelle Obama's "really amazing speech" calling for reform of the U.S. food system with fellow author on food and urban farming, Novella Carpenter. Pollan says, "The way...
This Al Jazeera English news brief looks at the G8 Summit, where world leaders, led by the U.S. president Barack Obama, have pledged 20 billion dollars in food aid to...
In this episode of UN 21st Century coca leaf crops in Peru are dwindling as farmers are convinced to start producing legal crops like coffee and palm oil; families in...
This time on Earth Focus glacial melt threatens Asia's food and water, and environmentalist Deb Callahan discusses Obama's climate action. Also, watch how solar energy is coming to remote...
"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...
Deborah Koons Garcia, director of "The Future of Food", outlines the problems with GMO crops, and the imbalances in our industrial food system. She describes how "little has changed" since...
Host Mark Hertsgaard and Deborah Koons Garcia, director of "The Future of Food", discuss how difficult it is to really know what one is eating, especially with the lack of...
In this interview with host Mark Hertsgaard, University of California at Berkeley biologist Ignacio Chapela discusses the dangers of genetically modified foods - not only the questionable science behind it,...
UC Berkeley biologist Ignacio Chapela discusses his discovery of genetically modified sequences inserted into the corn genome in Oaxaca, Mexico. His scientific paper was attacked and discredited - demonstrating the...
