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Issue #180 7/1/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Breaking News of the Week: Horizon Sells Out Organic Farmers With New "Natural" Milk
- Alert of the Week: Whole Foods Market Undermining Our Organic Future
- Related News of the Week: Dr. Bronner's Ups Ante in Lawsuit Against 'Organic' Personal Care Cheaters
- Alert Update of the Week: Stop Big Brother's NAIS
- -Political Plunder of the Week: Who is Spending What on Lobbying?
- Sustainability News of the Week: Some Resources for Getting Started with a Backyard Chicken Coop
- Web Video of the Week: Bill McKibben on U.S. Climate Politics
- Other Headlines of the Week
Issue #179 6/24/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Tell Hershey's to Stop Abusive Child Labor in Cocoa Production
- Consumer Tip of the Week: Fair Expectations: Rainforest Alliance v. Fairtrade
- Alert Update of the Week: A Critique of Some Recent Articles on Genetically Engineered Wheat
- Food Safety Tip of the Week: New Web Search Tool Shows What Pesticides are on Your Food
- Mad Cow News of the Week: Scientist Warns that Farmed Fish Could be a Source of Mad Cow Disease
- Other Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #178 6/17/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: A Quarter Million Experimental "Frankentrees" to Be Grown in U.S.
- Web Program of the Week: NPR Reports on Controversy Surrounding Genetically Engineered Trees
- Another Alert of the Week: Tell Obama & Vilsack to Drop Bush's Pro-GMO Rules
- Join OCA Tours in Central Highlands of Mexico
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Who Should Sit on the National Organic Standards Board?
- Good News of the Week: Organic Advocate Appointed to High Level USDA Position
- Organic Transition News of the Week: U.S. Department of Energy's Report Indicates the Era of Cheap Oil is Over
- Tip of the Week: How to Withdraw from the NAIS Database - A Step By Step Guide
- Food Safety News of the Week: More Problems With BPA and How to Avoid It
- Other Headlines of the Week...
Issue #177 6/10/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Doctors Call for Ban on Genetically Modified Foods
- Alert of the Week: The American Dietetic Association Buries Organic Nutrition Facts
- Organic Nutrition News of the Week: Why Government Nutrition Programs Shouldn't Ban Organic
- OCA Web Forum Posting of the Week: Silk Soymilk Packaging Scam
- Plunder of the Week: Judge's Ruling Fuels Meltdown in Organic Dairy Industry
- Health News of the Week: Study Raises Fresh Questions about the Safety of Water Fluoridation
- Other Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #176 6/3/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Stop Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Wheat
- Related Quote of the Week: The Hazards of Genetic Engineering
- Related Sustainability News of the Week: How to Grow Your Own Wheat and Make Your Own Flour
- Alert Update of the Week: Organic Dairy Family Farmers Need Support
- Web Video of the Week: The Genetic Conspiracy - Are Genetically Engineered Foods Dangerous?
- Study of the Week: New EPA Study Shows 1,4 Dioxane is 17 Times More Toxic Than Originally Thought
- Consumer Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Genetically Engineered Sugar
- Other Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #175 5/29/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Tell American Public Media to Stop Letting Monsanto Leverage Its Reputation
- Graduation Quote of the Week: You Are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring
- Web Video of the Week: Understanding Peak Oil
- Sustainability Tool of the Week: Downloadable Curriculum Teaches Food Sovereignty
- Clarification of the Week: Silk Brand Soymilk's Importation of Soybeans from China
- Headlines and Articles of the Week--
- Consumer Tip of the Week: Good Methods for Finding Local Food
- Environment News of the Week: Pollution Can Change Your DNA in 3 Days, Study Suggests
Issue #174 5/21/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- -Alert of the Week: Healthy, Local & Organic School Food Now
- Alert Update of the Week: Former Monsanto Lawyer Michael Taylor & the White House Food Safety Working Group
- Quote and Consumer Tip of the Week: New Survey Finds a Number of 'Organic' Soy Food Brands Importing Beans from China
- Sustainability Tip of the Week: When Local Goes Industrial
- Web Video of the Week: Food Inc
- -Health Tip of the Week: Fructose Truly is Worse Than Glucose
- Labor Unions in America: Pro or Con?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Victory of the Week: EPA Has Revoked Approval of Two Moth Pesticides Used for Aerial Spraying in California
- Community Solution of the Week: Smart Jitney Transportation in the Coming Era of Peak Oil & Fuel Scarcity
- Organic Transitions News of the Week: 'Farm in a Barrel': Raise Fish and Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables
Issue #173 5/13/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Secretary Vilsack: Support Organics, Not Genetic Engineering
- OCA Web Forum Topic of the Week: Does Homeopathy Work or is it Quackery?
- Victory and Newsflash of the Week: Federal Assistance Available for Farmers Making Transition to Organic
- Web Video of the Week: How to Start Your Organic Veggie & Herb Garden
- Essay of the Week: We Need Food and Farming Regulation Now
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #172 5/7/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Quotes of the Week: On the Contemporary Crisis
- Alert Update of the Week: Swine Flu: Reprieve or Lull Before the Storm?
- Health Tip: Swine Flu and the Pandemic of 1918 -- How Homeopathy Cured Flu Victims
- Alert of the Week: Safeguard Organic Standards
- Consumer Tip of the Week: Organic & Sustainable on a Food Stamp Budget
- Web Video of the Week: Pete Seeger at 90
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #171 4/29/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- -Alert of the Week: Ban Factory Farms Spreading Deadly Flu
- Related Web Video of the Week: Bird and Swine Flu - Viruses of Our Own Hatching
- Tips of the Week: How To Avoid Swine Flu
- Grassroots Victory of the Week: rBGH Labeling Bill Vetoed
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Clarification on How to Avoid MSG
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #170 4/22/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Sustainability News of the Week: OCA Announces Summer Study Tours in the Central Highlands of Mexico
- Alert Update of the Week: OCA Submits Comments on Organic Fraud to the NOSB
- Good News of the Week: EPA Will Mandate Tests on Suspected Endocrine Disruptors
- Food Safety Tip of the Week: How to Avoid MSG
- Quote of the Week: Surviving the Economic Crisis by Leaving Behind the Rat-Race
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #169 4/15/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Breaking News of the Week: OCA Under Attack
- Alert of the Week: Safeguard Organic Standards
Tell the NOSB to Strengthen Organic Standards - Grassroots Victory of the Week: Mars Takes a Step Forward Towards Sustainability -- Urge Them to Go Further
- Political Plunder of the Week: Tell Obama Not to Appoint Former Monsanto Lawyer on White House Food Safety Panel
- Web Video of the Week: The Psychological Benefits of Gardening
- Quote of the Week
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #168 4/9/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Breaking News: Urge Governor Sebelius to Veto rBGH Bill
- Alert of the Week: Save Organic Standards: Tell the USDA and the NOSB to Protect Organic Standards
- Alert Update of the Week: HR 875 Update: Will the Real "Monsanto Bill" Please Stand Up?
- Climate News of the Week: USDA Revises Plant Hardiness Map
- Sustainability Tip of the Week: Eight Ways to Join the Local Food Movement
- Food Safety News of the Week: New Study Finds Infant Formula Contaminated With Rocket Fuel Chemical
- Web Video of the Week: Shoveling Water on Vimeo
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #167 3/26/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Victory of the Week: Organic 'Victory' Garden Planted at White House
- Alert of the Week: Make the Polluters Pay -Tax Greenhouse Gas Emissions Now
- Rumor Update of the Week: Hr 875
- Alert Update of the Week: Employee Free Choice Act Update
- Web Video of the Week: What's in Your Body Care Products?
- Sustainability Quote of the Week: Consumer Products Will Soon Be Labeled With 'Water Stewardship' Certification
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #166 3/19/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Join OCA's Delegation to Cuba & Lift the Travel Ban
- Related Web Video of the Week: Urban Food Growing in Cuba
- Organic Consumers Weekly Report from the US Capitol: NAIS & USDA Secretary Vilsack
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Will the New HR875 Bill in Congress Outlaw Organic Farming?
- Food Safety News of the Week: Baby Formula Testing Project
- Sustainability News of the Week: Salt Water Elixir May Be New 'Miracle Liquid'
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: Will the New HR875 Bill in Congress Outlaw Organic Farming?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #165 3/12/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Domestic Fair Trade Means Supporting Workers' Rights
- Internet Myth of the Week: Congress To Pass Bill That Will Outlaw Organic Farming?
- Consumer Tool of the Week: Pocket Guide for Carcinogens in Personal Care Products
- Web Video of the Week: Faulty Drug Tests Trigger Arrests of Organic Consumers & Producers
- Frankenstein Experiment of the Week: Avian Flu Virus Contamination in Lab Nearly Sets Off Pandemic
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: OCA Supporter Who Lived Through the Great Depression Offers Sustainability Advice
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #164 3/6/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- OCA Campaign Success Story of the Week: OCA's New Study Finds Greatly Reduced Carcinogens in Personal Care Products
- Alert Update of the Week: OCA & Grassroots Pressure on Obama and Vilsack Show Results
- More Good News: Campaigning of OCA & Allies Shifts USDA and Helps Hilda Solis Get Confirmed
- Nutrition News of the Week: Taking a Bite Out of Childhood Obesity
- Alert of the Week: Sign the Health Revolution Petition
- Sustainability News of the Week: OCA at Power Shift '09, Artists for the Climate
- Related Web Videos of the Week: Wendell Berry speaks about Climate Change
- Web Forum Posting of the Week: We only have the next 10 days to stop MANDATORY NAIS
- Genetic Engineering News of the Week: Study Shows Monsanto's GE Cotton is Killing the Soil
Issue #163 2/26/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: The Obama Administration's Stance on Frankenfoods
- Another OCA rBGH Victory - Dannon Will Dump Bovine Growth Hormone
- Utilizing the Stimulus Package: How to Retrofit Your Home and Receive Big Tax Credits
- Web Videos of the Week: "Meet the Farmer" TV
- OCA at BioFach -- The World Organic Trade Fair
- Share Your Organic Vision for a U.S. National Organic Action Plan
- Featured OCA Blog of the Week: Thinking Globally
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #162 2/18/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert Update of the Week: National Animal Identification System
- Related Web Video of the Week
- Good News of the Week: European Countries Continue Ban on Genetically Engineered Crops
- Related Facts of the Week: Genetically Engineered Crops Creating More Pesticide Addiction in U.S
- Organic Transitions Essay of the Week: Getting Prepared for the Great Collapse
- Organic Bytes Readers Talk Back: Yoplait Dumps Monsanto?
- Web Forum Posting of the Week:...If It's Certified Organic, is It Organically Shipped?
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #161 2/11/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Stop NAIS - Protect your right to farm and to eat local food!
- GNA Alert of the Week: Good Jobs, Green Jobs
- Consumer Victory of the Week: Yoplait Goes rBGH-Free
- Valentines Tips of the Week: Turn Your Heart Green
- Web Video of the Week:The OCA Presents "Slammed" - A Valentines Video
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #160 2/4/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Quote of the Week: Why the Farming Crisis Has Everything to Do With the Economic Crisis
- Alert of the Week:...Tell Your Senators: 'Yes' to a Green Stimulus
- OCF Alert of the Week: Localizing School Food
- Sustainability News of the Week
- Web Video and Book of the Week: Agenda for a New Economy
- News of the Week: The Health Care Revolution Begins
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
- Sustainability Tip of the Week: A Consumer's Guide to Sustainable Sushi
- Organic Geek News of the Week: Do You Twitter?
Issue #159 1/28/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert of the Week: Tell Sec. of Agriculture Vilsack: The Time for an Organic Future is Now
- Quote of the Week: Secrets of a Lunatic Farmer
- OCA Polar Bears Deliver Our Message at the Inauguration
- Health News of the Week: Mercury Found In Nearly Half of All Corn Syrup
- Web Forum Health Posting of the Week: Is Infant Formula Safe?
- Web Video of the Week: Growing Organic Food on the White House Lawn
- Headlines and Articles of the Week OCA at Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference
Issue #158 1/14/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Alert Update of the Week:Vilsack and Riddle Sustainability
- Alert: How Much Change Will There Be Inauguration Day?
- Encouraging Statistics of the Week: Farmers Markets Go 'Boom'
- Essay of the Week:The Urban Homestead
- Fair Trade Alert of the Week:...Tell Millstone Coffee: Unfair Trade is Rotten!
- Web Video of the Week: "I'm Broke! Why Buy Organic?"
- Health News of the Week: Medicinal Plants Face Extinction
- Headlines and Articles of the Week
Issue #157 1/7/09 - HTML Version - PDF Version
- Organic Newsflash: Draft Jim Riddle to USDA
- Alert Update of the Week:Stop Vilsack
- Studies of the Week: Studies Confirm Genetically Modified Crops Damage Human Health and the Environment
- Consumer Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Genetically Modified Ingredients
- Top Web Videos of 2008
- Top OCA Web Forum Topic of 2008
- Top Organic & Green Tips of 2008
- Headlines and Articles of the Week