https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/clean-energy/student-engagement/internship-opportunities
MassCEC Clean Energy Internships - Funding for internships for students and recent graduates at Massachusetts clean energy and water innovation companies....
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/landscape/fact-sheets/phomopsis-blight
The fungus Phomopsis juniperovora causes Phomopsis blight and canker of juniper and several other members of the cypress family
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https://thefern.org/staff/
Theodore Ross (he/him)is Editor-in-Chief. He is an editor, writer, and television producer with more than 20 years of experience at national publications…
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/landscape/fact-sheets/rhabdocline-needle-cast
Rhadocline needle cast is caused by a complex of Rhabdocline species that are native to western North America. The currently recognized species include: R....
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https://www.sap.com/latvia/asset/dynamic/2023/11/50b419ed-987e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
Read how Juewei Food migrated its ERP to the cloud using RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. See how the deli chain has lowered IT costs and...
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01320/full
The effective utilization of slag fertilizer in agriculture to neutralize soil acidity, improve crop productivity, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and sta...
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https://thefern.org/2024/06/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-big-time-food-waster/
Jun 5, 2024 - I am an expert on wasting food, if only because I do it so much. For me, there’s a sense of profound shame in this profligacy, because I’m acting in ways...
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https://tinaatchley.com/
Heal & Nourish the natural & holistic way with Tina's professional (20+ years) knowledge in Dowsing, Feng Shui, Nutrition & Space Clearing.
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https://thefern.org/2024/10/time-to-bust-the-meat-trust/
Oct 23, 2024 - Americans are spending a greater portion of their income on food than they have in decades. In the past few months, the growing outrage over price hikes has…
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https://thefern.org/blog_posts/ferns-friday-feed-parrots-in-peril/
Nov 20, 2025 - “Each one of us has a unique scent profile, like a fingerprint. Everything from our personality type – such as extroversion, dominance and neuroticism –...
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https://www.booktopia.com.au/economic-studies-on-food-agriculture-and-the-environment-joint-minnesota-padova-conference-on-foo/book/9780306472428.html
Buy Economic Studies on Food, Agriculture, and the Environment by Joint Minnesota-Padova Conference on Foo from Booktopia. Get a discounted Hardcover from...
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/
The Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (CAFE) integrates research and outreach education in agriculture, food systems and the environment and is...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/is-farm-labor-at-risk/
Sep 22, 2025 - American farms hire roughly 2.5 million people annually to pick crops, milk cows, manage nurseries, tend livestock, and otherwise keep farms running…
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https://www.abebooks.com/9781138843011/Biological-Economies-Routledge-Studies-Food-1138843016/plp
Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural...
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https://thefern.org/2024/10/we-need-more-native-american-restaurants/
Oct 1, 2024 - If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity.
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https://thefern.org/2024/06/five-gadgets-to-fight-food-waste-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ridiculous/
Jun 5, 2024 - Only recently has the idea of reducing food waste moved beyond a niche concern. Gone are the days when it was solely the preoccupation of Depression-era…
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/home-lawn-garden/fact-sheets/harvesting-vegetables
Knowing when to harvest your vegetables is as important as knowing how to grow them. Each different vegetable has an optimum time for harvest. While some...
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https://thefern.org/2023/08/why-are-we-paying-for-crop-failures-in-the-desert/
Aug 10, 2023 - In mid-July in Phoenix, a man demonstrated to a local news station how to cook steak on the dashboard of his car. The city sweltered through a nearly...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/podcast-ferns-special-issue-on-food-and-power-in-the-west/
Sep 30, 2025 - Today we’re releasing a podcast and a documentary short as the final two pieces of Food and Power in the West, our special issue with High Country News.
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https://thefern.org/2024/06/the-cafeteria-as-classroom/
Jun 6, 2024 - In January 2019, students at Lovin Elementary School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, took a hard look at how much food they were throwing away. It was Taco Day…
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/landscape/fact-sheets/hawthorn-leaf-spot
The fungus Entomosporium mespili (asexual stage) [sexual stage: Diplocarpon mespili] causes hawthorn leaf spot. Host Plants Hawthorn leaf spot affects...
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https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/50993/20240703/food-waste-heres-contributes-greenhouse-gas-emissions-harms.htm
Jul 3, 2024 - Food waste accounts for one-third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Read to learn more. Despite the global food security crisis, roughly one-third...
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https://www.soilassociation.org/blogs/2025/june/13/who-does-the-spending-review-deliver-for/
Did the Spending Review 2025 deliver for farmers, the environment, nature, food and health?
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https://thefern.org/2024/04/the-whole-dam-truth/
May 2, 2024 - In the annals of decarbonization, few tales of progress are as chipper as the one New York City has told about its newly minted partnership with the...
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https://www.vecteezy.com/photo/66202260-delicious-chocolate-dipped-strawberries-on-vibrant-background-food-photography-colorful-environment
Download the Delicious chocolate-dipped strawberries on vibrant background food photography colorful environment 66202260 royalty-free Stock Photo from...
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https://thefern.org/2025/11/offshore-aquaculture-is-coming-to-the-gulf-coast/
Dec 4, 2025 - The world now eats more farmed seafood than we eat from the wild ocean. That’s turned farming fish into a massive business, one that American consumers...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/eating-bitterness/
Nov 14, 2025 - Against a vast wash of sagebrush and volcanic rock in Utah’s West Desert, Chris Merritt, an archaeologist with the State Historic Preservation Office…
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/the-making-of-an-indigenous-food-lab/
Sep 15, 2025 - A mug of nettle tea steams by a fresh slice of huckleberry pie. The oven stands dormant, sinks quiet and clean. Baskets, jars of herbs and bulk ingredients...
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https://www.livemint.com/us/trending/where-you-live-affects-what-you-eat-insights-on-how-the-food-environment-shapes-eating-habits-11766057509426.html
A healthy food environment supports everyone in making healthy food choices, while an unhealthy one may result in several negative outcomes.
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https://www.scu.edu.au/news/2021/healthy-bodies-healthy-environment-benefits-of-using-organic-food-in-traditional-mediterranean-diet.php
A new international study has found that adopting a healthy Mediterranean diet significantly increased pesticide intake, while changing to o
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https://thefern.org/podcasts/forked/
FORKED takes on the politics and policy that are turning the American food system on its head. Every two weeks, hosts Theodore Ross (FERN...
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https://thefern.org/2024/04/sludge-report/
May 29, 2024 - Dostie Farm, an organic dairy in Fairfield, Maine, was thriving until one day in October 2020 when owner Egide Dostie Jr. got a call from Stonyfield…
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https://europeangreens.eu/positions/environment-food/
European Greens bring together national parties that share the same Green values, and who are active across the entire European continent - both within the...
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https://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/eating-the-environment/content-section-6
This free course, Eating for the environment, will explore the links between food, nutrition and environmental sustainability.
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https://thefern.org/2024/06/the-rotten-secret-plaguing-americas-grocery-stores/
Jun 6, 2024 - We live on a planet where people still die of starvation, and yet we continue to waste so much food. It’s a problem, for sustenance but also for the...
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/landscape/fact-sheets/black-vine-weevil
Pest: Black Vine Weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus Fabricius) Order: Coleoptetra Family: Curculionidae Hosts: Primarily a problem in the landscape on taxus and...
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https://www.dearfoodpeople.com/
Dear Food People is one of the leading free news channel focused on validating and simplifying the science of food and nutrition. We're on a mission to empower...
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https://www.unisys.com/blog-post/food-and-beverage-how-to-remain-resilient-in-a-shifting-environment/
Leading food and beverage manufacturers can drive digital transformation and future-proof their operations, all while exceeding customer expectations
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https://thefern.org/2023/12/buzzkill/
Oct 18, 2024 - Judy Wu-Smart brings me to the scene of the crime. It’s a green yard framed by trees, with a patch of flowers in the middle, set among farm fields half an...
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https://smartchef.me/tutorial/rechargeable-food-scale-better-environment/
Sep 1, 2019 - Smart Chef Scale is a rechargeable food scale. With normal use of 1 hour day, the scale can last at least 30 days between each charge cycle.
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/clean-energy/chc
Clean Heating and Cooling Resources Clean heating and cooling (also known as renewable thermal) equipment can be used to reduce fossil fuel consumption,...
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/turf/best-management-practices-bmps-for-lawn-landscape-turf/12-disease-management
OBJECTIVE: Monitor and manage pressure and infection from turfgrass damaging diseases. Set action thresholds for disease occurrence on a particular site....
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/mass4h/volunteers/4-h-advisory-councils
4-H Advisory Councils are comprised of screened 4-H leaders or volunteers as well as 4-H youth and program partners. An advisory group can be in the form of a...
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https://thefern.org/2024/12/power-failure/
Dec 18, 2024 - I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It kicked up a thick dust cloud...
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https://thefern.org/2014/12/hu-tieu-vietnamese-dish-spiced-prosperity-climate-change/
Mar 22, 2019 - On a visit last month to the town of My Tho, the capital of the Tien Giang province in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, I found a riverside restaurant that served...
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https://thefern.org/2018/01/unlikely-climate-crusade-trump-country/
Mar 22, 2019 - It was a quarter after eight on a steamy August morning when Rachel Grantham rumbled up in a big black pickup truck. The 26-year-old, six-foot-three...
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https://thefern.org/2015/10/children-left-vulnerable-by-world-bank-amid-push-for-development/
Jan 28, 2021 - This is the latest installment of “Evicted and Abandoned,” a year-long investigation into the hidden toll of World Bank–financed...
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https://thefern.org/2024/01/ethanol-is-just-comically-inefficient-solar-energy/
Jan 19, 2024 - For all the backbiting and vitriol, the main candidates in the recent Iowa GOP presidential caucus agreed on a lot of issues…
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/vegetable/fact-sheets/bean-downy-mildew
Phytophthora phaesoli Downy mildew caused by Phytophthora phaseoli infects broad bean, pea, and lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus). The disease can be a major...
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https://civileats.com/2025/09/29/denvers-food-forests-provide-free-fruit-while-greening-the-environment/
Sep 29, 2025 - Despite federal roadblocks, an ambitious agroforestry program is feeding people, cleaning the air, and helping offset climate change.
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https://thefern.org/2023/10/alone-on-the-range/
Apr 30, 2024 - The job was Gustavo’s idea, and the escape was his idea, too. “If he kills us, he kills us,” he told his kid brother, Iván, one night after work in...
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https://thefern.org/2024/02/the-farm-bill-hall-of-shame/
Jun 5, 2024 - The farm bill is among the most important pieces of legislation that Congress is more or less obliged to pass. Yet to all but a handful of people whose job...
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https://thefern.org/ag_insider/memphis-meats-will-start-small-when-it-gets-regulatory-green-light/
Feb 25, 2019 - Chief executive Uma Valeti says Memphis Meats, the self-declared leader in a worldwide race to develop cell-based meat, “will be ready to go to...
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/civil-rights-information/mailing-lists-policy
IntroductionUMass Extension faculty and staff maintain many mailing lists for the purposes of emailed and mailed communications. Some of these lists exist for...
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/vegetable/fact-sheets/garlic-bloat-nematode
Garlic Bloat Nematode Ditylenchus dipsaci, the garlic bloat nematode, attacks onions, chives, and leeks as well as garlic. It is also found on other bulb...
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https://www.booktopia.com.au/management-of-health-risks-from-environment-and-food-hajime-sato/book/9789048130276.html
Buy Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food, Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries -- Asbestos and BSE by Hajime Sato...
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https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/mass4h/get-involved
Why become a 4-H volunteer? Nationally, a combined network of over 500,000 volunteers provides caring and supportive mentoring to 6 million 4 H members,...
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https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/why-vegan/environment/
Veganism is more than just a diet, it's a lifestyle. One of the reasons many people go vegan is due to the impact on the environment.
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https://www.postermywall.com/index.php/email/templates/food-email-templates/environment-day-email-template/price-list-email-templates
Engage your audience with PosterMyWall's email templates and drag-and-drop editor. Customize our free, responsive email templates and send campaigns like a pro...
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https://thefern.org/2024/02/a-farm-bill-for-farmworkers/
Jun 5, 2024 - Farm work has long been among the most dangerous jobs in America. But while Congress has had many chances to bolster labor protections in the 18 versions of...
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