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Giant US department store chain Wal-Mart has some interesting initatives to promote sustainability and public health that the likes of Coles, Woolworths and Bunnings should be taking note of. My interest in Wal-Mart was piqued by a large number of hits The Melbourne Urbanist received last month from the US on a piece I wrote [...]

As I’ve argued before (here) there are a number of reasons why buying food locally is probably the least sustainable basis on which to base your food buying preferences. First, transport is only a small component of the total carbon emissions from agriculture. Second, most food can’t be grown locally without resorting to potentially environmentally [...]

The area of productive agricultural land sterilised by suburban sprawl is greatly exaggerated