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JZ Liszkiewicz: Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda and Winning

Marion Nestle’s War on Soda In her new book, the nutrition expert lays bare the soda industry’s powerful and harmful tactics. Nestle thoroughly expounds on the soda industry’s marketing and corporate social responsibility tactics. She also details the way it is increasing focus on the developing world, marketing to children, targeting people of color, recruiting …

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JZ Liszkiewics: Food Chains — Slavery & Abuse in America’s Food Production & Processing

In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of …

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JZ Liszkiewicz: True Cost Accounting for Food — Survey with Links

There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food Taking these costs into account is essential; the economic cost of global environmental degradation from industry is estimated at US$2 to US$5 trillion per year. TCA has the potential to make industrial food production seem unreasonably harmful and expensive and make sustainable food production seem not only …

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JZ Liszciewicz: 2016 Political Fact-Checking Project

2016 Political TV Ad Tracker: with Analysis & Fact-checking Citizens Can Trust To help citizens navigate their way towards informed choices amidst the flood of political messaging, we will be building on journalism partnerships to present digital library reference pages for political ads.  Our journalism launch partners include Politifact, FactCheck.org and the Center for Public Integrity. …

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JZ Liszkiewicz: Automated Sensing and Texting Environmental Data

Bridging the Environmental Data Divide: When Earth Texts Home In our latest From the Field, Frontline SMS CEO Sean McDonald talks about their new environmental sensor, designed to bridge the environmental data divide with open hardware. Many thanks to Sean McDonald for sharing this article about the exciting environmental sensor technology Frontline SMS have developed with …

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