Keep on Trucking: Nouvelle food trucks make fast food with slow valuesFor Grist's "Feeding the City" series, I sample some local-seasonal-organic-type food trucks and stands in NYC, and then take the pulse of similar scenes in San Francisco, L.A., and Portland, Ore. Yum.
Marine Toxicologist Susan Shaw Dives Into Gulf Spill
Among several other articles for OnEarth about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I interview Dr. Susan Shaw about how the dispersants being applied to the underwater oil leak may affect the marine food web. Yum!
Sizing Up Our Food's Nitrogen Footprint
New research compares food group footprints: nitrogen and carbon. The findings suggest that some of the agriculture policies and practices aimed at curbing climate change can increase the pollution that leads to oxygen-starved dead zones in coastal waters.
Conserving Casco Bay, One Data Point at a Time
For OnEarth. Friends of Casco Bay was doing citizen science before the concept had a name. The group has enlisted around 600 "citizen stewards" over 19 years to measure the bay's salinity, dissolved oxygen levels, and more -- indicators of whether nitrogen runoff from inland farms is polluting the coastal waters.
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