Food and Water Watch has created this interactive map to help you track where industrialized factory farms are located. Their aim was to illustrate the extent to which these massive entities are overtaking small family farms. Food and Water Watch explains that these factory farms, "take away consumers’ choice at the grocery store, make food safety problems happen on a larger scale, and create more waste than the surrounding environment can adequately absorb." Check out the map to build your knowledge and then go on Eat Wild  to find out where to purchase local, pasture-raised meat.

In the latest installation by the Story of Stuff Project, Annie Leonard explores the ramifications of last year's monumental Citizens United v. FEC ruling and explains, "why democracy only works when people are in charge." Visit the Story of Stuff Project website to watch the video and for more information.

What do Americans think of climate change and could you estimate how climate scientists feel about it?  11th Hour Project funded scientist, Anthony Leiserowitz, PhD director of Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication, asked these questions in a recent poll.  The responses were surprising. "Only 13% of Americans got the correct answer, which is that in fact about 97% of American scientists say that climate change is happening, and about a third of Americans just simply say they don't know," he revealed.  His research  shows that the more people understand that there is this scientific consensus, the more they tend to believe that climate change is happening. NPR  reported  on these findings in June 2011.

Olivier De Schutter the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food explains how agro-ecological farming methods outperform the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production where the hungry live. This piece was originally broadcast on the CBC Radio program, "As It Happens". The full "Agroecology and the Right to Food" report was presented to the UN's Human Right Council on March 3, 2011.   You can read more about this topic in an article by 11th Hour Project grantee Anna Lappé.  For Anna's response to GMOs see this article in another 11th Hour Project grantee Grist.

Congratulations to the Cutlass/11th Hour Racing team! 11th Hour Racing is the presenting sponsor of the Atlantic Cup and assits race organizers to incorporate clean technology. The Cup is a "Clean Regatta" which harnesses hydro-generators and bio-diesel fuel to power the race boats. "Clean Regattas" is a program of Sailor's for the Sea, a non-profit that educates and empowers boaters to protect and restore our oceans and coastal waters. This new Class40 sailing event that combines a double-handed sprint with an inshore grand prix race with a crew of six. The winner of the combined stages captures the Cup Championship.

Solar One, a grantee of the 11th Hour Project, is making news for their groundbreaking education program The Green Design Lab.  See the article in the Wall Street Journal and make sure not to miss the video embedded in the article, or see it here.

On Septermber 22nd, 2011, 11th Hour Project Grantee Marin Carbon Project headlined a discussion on sustainable food, water and energy systems in Mill Valley, California.  The discussion was part of Transition Mill Valley's "Under One Sky: Change and Your Backyard" program.  See the full story in the Mill Valley Herald here.

A recent New York Times article highlights the rising cost of farmland and the difficulty of land access for young and beginning farmers.  You can see the work 11th Hour grantee Pie Ranch has been doing to highlight this and other challenges facing new farmers in their latest video.