published July 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Thomas Cheng A picture is worth a thousand words. How can we grab people's attention, and get them to eat more local food? Yes, local food -- because it is healthier, slashes food's carbon footprint, and makes you savour the seasons again. Advertising agencies around the world have launched some truly smart marketing campaigns to educate people ...
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published July 17, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: filmmij We've discussed the idea of turning vacant lots of a deserted Detroit into vibrant farms. After all, with a population that's decreased by 50 percent since the 1950's , we have to find use for all the available space. But a new documentary by Mascha Poppenk called Grown in Detroit
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published July 10, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Ellen Silverman When I first started to watch this interview I must admit I was expecting the same old farm to fork lingo that has become such a buzz word in American cuisine lately. And while I love the idea of farm to fork eating, I want it to become more than just a passing trend, but rather, ...
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published July 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Food Forward Fresh fruit isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I think about LA. Nevertheless, we've already heard about Fallen Fruit —an art project turned activist movement which aims to liberate unused 'public' fruit. (The movement eventually lead to a take over of LA Art Museum with some edible environmental art .) Another crew ...
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published July 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Image from Grand Rapids Press Some big companies with land to spare are providing vegetable patches for their employees to work on during their breaks and during lunch. It's a nice perk, though a raise might be nicer, and it certainly is good for morale. In California Google and Yahoo have had organic gardens for a while. But more ...
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published July 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Good.is Baltimore is a set beset by "food deserts"—vast urban areas without access to anything but fast food, snack cakes, bags of chips, and soda. The city is not unique in it's situation—cities across the country face the same problem—but it is one of the first in the country to make a serious effort to address the ...
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published June 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Channel 4 Only last month we heard, via Food and Wine , about eating dirt as the latest weird restaurant trend . And it seems this magazine, which is usually a champion of unbridled luxury, and even excess, is on somewhat of a sustainability kick these days. Sure, there are still plenty of ads for cruises and ...
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published June 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: ACF Australia maybe the world's sixth largest country, but with over 80% of its 23 million people live within 100 kilometres of the coast. This makes it one of the most urbanised nations in the world. So the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) set out to investigate which of the country's 20 largest cities is the greenest. The results ...
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published June 14, 2010 and has No Comments
This year's Ontario Heritage Conference was all about rural communities, and there were the expected presentations about saving barns and old churches. But the remarkable thing about the conference was the strong environmental theme, with the tone set by John Ikerd, a retired professor of agricultural economics. He laid out a vision of revitalized, relocalized rural communities that would ...
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published June 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Susty My post on why soil is not dirt , and to a lesser degree my subsequent backtracking on why dirt may be soil after all , drew a passionate and divided response. It seems many folks really do care about the dirt/soil we depend on after all. But as email responses from friends and fellow soil ...
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