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• Do WE Waste THAT Much Food?

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 118
  ‘ Do Something ‘ research reports that we throw out AT LEAST $5.2 billion worth of food from home every year. WHAT Are We Doing? Fruit and vegetables are tossed out most, then unfinished restaurant and takeaway meals and then fresh meat and fish! It seems singles living alone, buying over-sized items and ...
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• Check Out Local Food Map Website

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 118
  Recently launched, with the idea of promoting local food, is a website where people can search for food within a certain vicinity . The interest in local food really seems to be growing – whether for health, community support, or environmental ‘ transition town ‘ type reasons. Are you changing your ...
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• Organic A-Z: Lemon

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 671
  The lemon. It may be a classic but its never boring. Such an exciting and intense fruit. Lemons really wake things up with their acidic juice, making an incredible addition to drinks and salad dressings and drizzled on top of finished dishes. The zest and oils are amazing and versatile too in heaps of sweet and ...
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• Organic A-Z: Kale

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 671
  I love a challenge. And Kale gives me one -coz there are a lot of fools out there who say they hate kale. I blame execution and bad child hood memories. I am here to tell you this is one delicious leafy green. Its also crazy good for you. In fact some nutritionists say it is THE HEALTHIEST VEGETABLE OUT THERE. ...
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• Locavore Vs. Vegan

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 529
  Some nonvegans will argue that food miles matter more (in terms of the environment) than anything else. They promote eating locally, not eating vegan. Clearly, some people can easily be both locavores and vegans, but many must choose which is more important for some food choices. Luckily, there isn’t a ton of ...
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• Miles from Now/here Today: Adventures in Evora, Redondo, Lisbon

  
  art predator — Authority: 427
  I woke with this Cat Stevens song in my head as the rain gently falls on the Roman ruins outside my room, the wind howls, and the morning traffic honks. Voices murmur outside my room in Portuguese and  English. I open the curtains and the sun flashes on the dark wet ruins and white plaster [...]
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• ‘In Touch’ Maroondah To Hold Transition Town Info Night

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 118
  Victoria’s Maroondah Council is responding to its community’s interest in Transition Towns – as have several other councils – with an Info Night Tuesday 10 November. What Are Tranbsition Towns? Maroondah describes this as: “a community based movement that seeks to develop community-led responses to ...
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• Govt Food Dialogue & Four Weeks To Comment On Labelling

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 118
  The independent publication Australian Food News reports that the Federal Government’s new Food and Health Dialogue will provide a ‘framework for government, health groups and industry to work collaboratively across the food supply chain to improve dietary intakes’. This Dialogue will be part of a broader ...
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• Power Tripping Across America with Environmental Journalist Amanda Little

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol-obsessed society, but it wasnt until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms. Amanda tells TreeHugger Radio how, to write her first book, Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar ...
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• Power Tripping Across America with Environmental Journalist Amanda Little

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 138
  Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol-obsessed society, but it wasn’t until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms. Amanda tells TreeHugger Radio how, to write her first book, Power Trip: From Oil Wells to ...
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• Organic A-Z: A New Gastro Taxonomy

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 671
  Welcome to ORGANIC A to Z, the web series where were cooking our way through the alphabet--organically. From Apples to Zucchini we are going to explore cooking and the world of food by looking at your organic options.
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• Farm in a Box: Aquaponics Systems for Everyone (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Image credit: Farm in a Box From Aquaponics USAs ready to use mini-fish farms to Access to Aquaponics $499.99 starter kits , there are more and more companies aiming to take aquaponics (a symbiotic combination of hydroponics and fish farming) into the mainstream. Jaymi over at Planet Green has just covered ...
  2 weeks ago

• D is for Indulgent, Thick, Creamy Date Shake

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 671
  Master this technique and you can make any smoothie.
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• Solar and Agriculture: Double Cropping Energy and Food

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Image credit: Piedmont Biofuels From a 25-megawatt photovoltaic plant in Florida to a 4,500 acre solar thermal installation in California , solar just keeps getting bigger. Within that context, a 100kw array may seem hardly worth mentioning, but folks in my community are excited, and not without reason. ...
  3 weeks ago

• No Impact Week: Q & A with Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 508
  Colin Beavan’s experiment in low impact living compelled him to reassess just about every aspect of our daily lives: how we get around; how we shop; how we stay cool and keep warm; how we entertain ourselves; and, of course, how we eat. The production/distribution of food products uses an extraordinary amount of ...
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• Bioneers 2009: Michael Pollan Drinks Oil

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael Pollan as a headlining speaker. His talk came in the early afternoon, just before lunch, so to make everyone excited ...
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• Theres No Need For Revolution, Just Get Back In the Kitchen

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  photo: J. Novak Its easy to get radical when faced with the blatantly unsustainable food system in this country, but the most obvious solution is much less sweeping than a revolt. We just need to learn how to cook, according to the Nations Dan Barber.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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• It Takes Two Baby! Make Decadent Crème Fraîche or Cream Cheese With Two Ingredients

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 671
  In an effort to eat as locally as possible miscellaneous items like sour cream and cream cheese often have to be left off the list. And then the devil on the other shoulder questions the austerity of such harsh decisions. Sometimes a creamy dollop is a necessary evil, right?
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• Edible Landscape Showcase: Missouris Heartland Harvest Garden

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 671
  In a country dominated by ornamental landscapes that are beautiful but (almost) useless, its refreshing to see an edible landscape demonstration on the scale of the Heartland Harvest Garden - its 12 acres of incredible edibles, with hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables, creating a "window shop of ...
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• Superfoods a Super Waste?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 721
  photo: J.Novak From açai to goji and raw cocoa to spirulina, superfoods have blossomed into an industry thats expected to reel in upwards of $10 billion by 2011, according to Small Footprint Family . I admit at first I was in awe of such luxurious ingredients, day dreaming of being wrinkle-free at 100 and doing ...
  4 weeks ago

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