Today in Organic: January 5, 2009

Twelfth Night in the Estate / Flickr user BrotherMagneto

• At The Dirt on Green we put together a list of the Top 10 Ways to Decrease Your Carbon Foodprint.

• "Can we feed the world without damaging it?" asks Paul Voosen from the New York Times in the last of a five-part series about genetically-modified crops. 

• GOOD magazine is publishing "The Slow Issue," which includes a short interview with Slow Food Nation president Joshua Viertel. 

• Barry Estabrook wrote an excellent post at The Politics of the Plate about undocumented workers in the dairy industry.

• The New Yorker has an in-depth profile of Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey, revealing that Mackey is a full-fledged climate change skeptic.

• Wha?? Forbes names Monsanto Corp. 'company of the year.' (The subtitle appropriately reads, "the planet versus monsanto.") That's like selecting Bernie Madoff as person of the year. 

• The LA Times explores the potential of urban agriculuture to convert Detroit's vacant lots into farms.