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• Terra Madre Day: Celebrating 20 Years of Slow Food Excellence

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 703
  photo: J. Novak Slow Food is the organization that first brought me to sustainable eating. It showed me how to enjoy the experience of eating the best in local foods. I learned that often times local foods are easier on the planet than organic if they are grown sustainably and that my diet was one of the best tools ...
  10 hours ago

• Fun Tips for Thanksgiving: Ethics, Priorities & Media Moments

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 23, 2009 Like many of you, I’m trying to figure out how to ‘go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house’ while reducing my carbon footprint, cranky kids and car time, or being locked in a transportation vehicle of any sort (plane, train or automobile) when we really just all ...
  6 days ago

• On a Wind and a Care. The Sail Transport Company Freight Food By Yacht

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 703
  Photos: Culture Change Previously weve talked about a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) carbon neutral project to ship grain from paddocks to pantries via sail-craft . That was in Canadas British Columbia. For the past year the Sail Transport Company (STC) have been following a similar ethos -- although a ...
  6 days ago

• Organic A-Z: Potatoes

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 623
  Yummy, yum, yum. I love the potato and I hate the freaks who turned everyone into haters. Even if the potato was really bad for you, Id still eat it. I mean, come on, WHAT TASTES BETTER than a bowl of mashers, a side dish of perfectly roasted and seasoned wedges, or a cone of fries with sea salt? Soft, crunchy, ...
  1 week ago

• Organic A-Z: Olives

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 623
  Man, I love olives. I always have. Not sure why, but even when I was a little kid I was crazy about them. All of them, even the strong and bitter ones and the love affair continues. I dont think a day goes by without me consuming at least a tablespoon of olive oil. For real. Its so good, truly a nectar of the ...
  1 week ago

• How to Green Your Thanksgiving

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 125
  by Analiese Paik, Founder of the Fairfield Green Food Guide Thanksgiving is a time for celebrating the harvest and giving thanks with friends and family for the food that sustains and nourishes us. This year I challenge you to choose...
  1 week ago

• Carbon Footprint Update

  
  Mountaingirls Musings — Authority: 130
  Now that I am no longer a "worker" in the traditional sense of the word I have just updated my carbon footprint details. I am now emitting approximatley half a tonne of carbon each year ... well a little bit over: 0.53 tonnes. Now I could be cocky and say it is waaaaaaay under the average for Australia but it would ...
  1 week ago

• Organic A-Z: Nuts

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 623
  Man, I dont even know where to start. If you are not eating nuts you are totally insane. They are so good, so healthy, so versatile. And they are everywhere too. Right? Come on people, do I really need to write this blog?
  1 week ago

• Organic A-Z: Mushroom

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 623
  You know what I think? I think mushrooms are the bomb. Theyre incredibly mysterious, delicious, and if youre into wild ones, they are dangerous too. So exciting.
  1 week ago

• Are Aquaponics Kits a Rip Off?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 703
  Image credit: Friendly Aquaponics Instant feedback is nice. No sooner do I write a post about Hawaii-based Friendly Aquaponics —praising their work, but noting that their plans for aquaponic systems dont come cheap—that I get an email from them telling me Im right, and thats why theyve launched one of the most ...
  1 week ago

• Traveling Tea

  
  Stomachs on legs are proud to present — Authority: 125
  I like Rooibos tea. Its a great any-time-of-the-day caffeine-free flavorful beverage that is rich in mineral. After I ran out of the stock I bought in Malawi, in Thailand I could only find the ridiculously overpriced ones in Tops supermarket, so I stocked up when I was in Germany last year. After I ran out of it, I ...
  1 week ago

• Urinate on compost ‘to save the planet’ (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov 15 (ANI): Peeing on the compost heap can help fertilise gardens and save on flushing the lavatory, a UK charity has urged.The National Trust actively campaigns on climate change, and now it has said that answering the call of nature outside saves both on water and the energy used in flushing the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friendly Aquaponics: Commercial and Home-Scale Fish and Vegetable Production

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 703
  Image credit: Friendly Aquaponics It always appeals to me when I see a business that lists, as one of its goals, to "put ourselves out of business as soon as we can" by spreading its knowledge as freely as generously as possible—especially when Leonard Nimoy is quoted as inspiration. But I suspect Friendly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Warming Slow Cooker Cabbage, Perfect for a Frosty Day

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 623
  Cabbage is a great addition to soup, stew, and loads of slow cooker recipes. Its hearty and its grown locally in autumn all over the place. It also keeps for a long time.
  2 weeks ago

• Do WE Waste THAT Much Food?

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 120
  ‘ 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Check Out Local Food Map Website

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Organic A-Z: Lemon

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 623
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Organic A-Z: Kale

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 623
  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. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Locavore Vs. Vegan

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 507
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Miles from Now/here Today: Adventures in Evora, Redondo, Lisbon

  
  art predator — Authority: 131
  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 [...]
  3 weeks ago

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