Subject: ISSUE DEADLINE: Sustainable Ag. -Forwarded

From: Todd Johnson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:53:31 -0400

The attached comes with apologies to all of you
who are members of two or more of the recipient
lists for this cross-posting. You will receive
multiple copies (depending on how many lists
you're on). There seems to be a large degree of
confluent interests here. Enjoy all!
Todd R. Johnson

Subject: ISSUE DEADLINE: Sustainable Ag.
From: The GreenDisk Journal <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:13:01 -0400

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               ISSUE DEADLINE JULY 26!

The
upcoming issue of The Green Disk -- a journal of
contemporary
environmental issues published
bimonthly on computer disk -- will
focus on
Organic and Sustainable Agriculture. Many of
the
environmental problems we face today are a
direct effect of
industrial agriculture. The
billions of pounds of pesticides
applied to the
land each year contaminate wildlife,
drinking
water and even breast milk. Not only is
topsoil, water and
biodiversity squandered under
this nonsustainable system, the
quality of
community and even the food itself is diminished.
In
the words of author and farmer Wendell Berry,
"The food choices
we make each day affect the way
agriculture operates. Each choice
can be
considered a vote, either for the status quo of
chemically
based conventional agriculture or for
a shift to ecologically
based organic
agriculture."

The next issue of The Green Disk
will explore the link between
agriculture and the
environment, and profile the emerging
worldwide
movement towards organic, sustainable
farming
practices. Submissions of articles and
resource listings on this
topic are
welcome.

Twenty-four research compendia, on
subjects ranging from the
Decline of Global
Fisheries to Environmental Endocrine
Disruptors,
have been published to date. Regular features of
each
issue disk keep our readers (activists,
journalists and
educators) updated on a broad
spectrum of environmental subjects,
informing
them of publications and other media that have
been
released recently, upcoming meetings and
events, college
programs, employment
opportunities and new developments in the
use of
computers for research and activism.

If you are
involved in a project you would like our readers
to
know about, please send us a description,
press release or
article via email, on disk or by
surface mail.

GREENDISK GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL
COMPUTING v1.2
The guide -- recently featured in
E Magazine -- contains over
1100 listings of
World Wide Web Sites, listservs,
online
databases, bulletin board services,
software, educational
programs, CD-roms and
datasets. The guide is published on disk in
Mac
and IBM formats -- it is Boolean (and/or) keyword
searchable,
saves 900 pages of paper and can be
updated easily. We are now
offering six months of
free updates via email, plus a review
issue of
The GreenDisk Journal to buyers of the
guide.

Send all submissions and inquiries to
<[email-masked]>.

The deadline for the
next issue is July
26!

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