Jessica Naudziunas

The Sustainable Hand

Jessica Naudziunas — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:00:00 +0000

The farmer of future will grow food and raise animals with tomorrow in mind. They’ll know contributing to the food supply is not enough. If the soil, air and water they use to produce food is damaged, good luck feeding anyone.

Soccer Star With Soap Opera Roots Aims At Olympics

Jessica Naudziunas — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:11:00 +0000

Indiana University soccer star Orianica Velasquez is on a mission — to get to the London Olympics with Colombia's women's soccer team. And she wants to send a message about the country where she was born.

"My dream is to get a medal for Colombia," she says, adding that she wants to show the world "it's just not violence, it's just not drugs — we can play soccer and we can do great things because we have great people there."

The coach of the Colombian women's team, Ricardo Rozo, says he didn't discover Velasquez's raw athletic talent on the field — he discovered it on TV.

KCUR Reporters Receive Awards

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:05:34 +0000

KCUR and Harvest Public Media reporters recently received several journalism awards for their reporting.

Milk Not Jails Makes Partners Out Of Farmers And Ex-Cons

Jessica Naudziunas — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:21:00 +0000

What's plentiful in upstate New York? Cows and prison inmates, to name a few things.

Reformists in the two communities don't make natural allies, but organizer Lauren Melodia is trying to do just that.

"I was living in this prison town, and at the same time, the dairy industry was in a lot of turmoil," Melodia tells The Salt. "We thought this [dairy] might be the perfect ally in trying to build a different economy in upstate New York, and shift some of the economic dependency away from the prison system."

So Melodia formed the non-profit Milk Not Jails.

Assessing The Additives

Jessica Naudziunas — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:41:03 +0000

Pick up your favorite packaged food and read the ingredient list. If you stumbled over any of the words or a color jumped out at you, you might be looking at what’s known as a food additive.

Selling Healthy Eating In The Aisles

Jessica Naudziunas — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:50:13 +0000

Walk into your neighborhood grocery store looking for healthy food and you might get

Ethanol Decision May Split The Market

Jessica Naudziunas — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:27:50 +0000

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The Environmental Protection Agency in October is expected to make a decision on the use of a 15 percent ethanol in gasoline (vs. the currently allowed 10 percent). But approval would apply to 2007 model year and newer cars what the EPA calls "Tier 2" vehicles. And that could lead to customer confusion.