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From exposing Monsanto's and other big agriculture's energy-intensive industrial farming practices that rely on toxic chemicals and genetically engineered crops that are making people sick and destroying the planet, to solution-based projects where school lunchrooms support local foods and healthy choices, advocates in communities throughout the world are changing the way people eat.
Stefanie Penn Spear: Grassroots Advocacy at Its Best Stefanie Penn Spear 2012
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From exposing Monsanto's and other big agriculture's energy-intensive industrial farming practices that rely on toxic chemicals and genetically engineered crops that are making people sick and destroying the planet, to solution-based projects where school lunchrooms support local foods and healthy choices, advocates in communities throughout the world are changing the way people eat.
Stefanie Penn Spear: Grassroots Advocacy at Its Best Stefanie Penn Spear 2012
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Packaging is also surprisingly energy-intensive, accounting for 7 percent of food system energy use.
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We could go back to horse and buggy days, if we were willing to somehow get rid of 4/5 of our population – people forget that the current world population is only made possible at all by high-tech and energy-intensive farming methods.
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Pollution, particularly from the energy-intensive wealthy industrialised countries, is warming the atmosphere.
Eco-Justice 2009
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The most energy-intensive segment of the food chain is the kitchen.
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Cleaner air, using an abundant and renewable energy source, and providing various community benefits make wind farm development likely to continue, at least until more Americans change our energy-intensive ways.
Towering on the Horizon: Wind Farms and Energy Independence 2009
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Cameron's early green investment rhetoric has given way to spin about building roads, easing the fuel bills of energy-intensive industry and holding down fuel prices.
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Few economic activities are more energy-intensive.
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We could go back to horse and buggy days, if we were willing to somehow get rid of 4/5 of our population – people forget that the current world population is only made possible at all by high-tech and energy-intensive farming methods.
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