Today in Organic: September 3, 2009

Oxfam G8 protestors, Saint Giovanni in Laterano Basilica in Rome / Reuters

• Chicago could finally be getting city-wide composting. "Gov. Pat Quinn recently signed SB99 into law, which allows food waste to be commercially composted in the state and sold all over the country," reports A Fresh Squeeze. Now all we need is a recycling program.

• In order to save money, people are eating at home more, according to a new survey for Whole Foods conducted by Harris Interactive. 

• The question of how our food is produced is part of a larger conversation about how the American democracy functions, writes Dave Murphy, founder of Food Democracy Now!, in The Nation.

• The New York Times asks a handful of prominent entomologists and beekeepers what we've learned in the past couple of years about the causes of colony collapse disorder - the mysterious phenomenon that caused roughly one-third of bee colonies to vanish, beginning in 2006.