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Scholarly and peer-reviewed journals with a very strong focus on nursing, drug information, and allied health.
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Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Over forty years ago Rachel Carson wrote of the dangers of pesticides and the abuses of the commercial pesticide industry (Carson, 1962). In 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture reported U.S. farm and professional pesticide use at about 1.2 billion pounds each year (EPA, 2011). These pesticides are absorbed into soil, water, and living tissue, unable to distinguish between intended target and other non-target organisms. The full range...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As the culmination of my graduate experience at Green Mountain College, I present to you, readers, my MSES graduate thesis and applied professional project, Growing Oshkosh, Inc, including the conceptualization, creation, incorporation and case for support for Growing Oshkosh, Inca local community food project and non-profit urban farm in Oshkosh, Wisconsin dedicated to sowing and growing a healthier, more vibrant and more hopeful community. Growing...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
May 2010.
Language
English
Description
Global warming, childhood obesity and diabetes, a national life expectancy for the first time falls short of that of that generation that preceded it, degradation of rural communities, and destruction of our country's soil and water sources are all part and parcel of a broken food system. Our meals travel an average of 1,500 miles from farm to table and contain scarce nutritional value one they arrive. People don't know where there [sic] food comes...
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