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The Lexicon of Sustainability
What Is The Lexicon of Sustainability?
The Lexicon of Sustainability is a multi-platform project that educates, engages, and activates people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and where their responsibility begins for creating a healthier and safer food system in America.
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57 is the average age of US farmers. See what’s next in education and green collar jobs.

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Food: deserts, security, sovereignty — terms, culture and politics for feeding the world.

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Farming on rooftops and in vacant lots connects urbanites to where their food comes from.

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Land trusts can keep farms afloat when the real estate is worth more than the yield.

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When you buy food, you’re buying values, values of those who grow, transport and sell it.

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Learn how and why nearly 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are used on healthy animals.

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Sustainability is an ideal rooted in the choices we make as consumers and producers.

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Nearly 1/3 of the fish we buy isn’t what the label says. Can we trace their origins?