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• Dead Birds & Black Holes

  
  Consciously Frugal — Authority: 123
  Aahahahahahahahahaha OHHHHH. Isnt that just the best holiday post title evah? This is going to be rambling idiocy. If you want to listen to someone sane and professional ramble, head on over to Frugally Green or Wake Up To Frugality!Tomorrow is the big day o feast. Where we gluttony-loving mericans stuff ourselves ...
  4 days ago

• Getting Your Goat (Cheese) - A Giveaway

  
  The Well-Seasoned Cook — Authority: 507
  Feta on Olive Oil. Lifes little luxuries. They are often unexpected gifts: the hand-written thank-you note from a far-away friend; the cat who spies the spider before it lowers itself onto your head; the Valentine extravagance of Italian black lace languidly pooled in a glossy white box. We all have our favorites. ...
  5 days ago

• Termites create sustainable monoculture fungus farming

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural) evolution to adopt this habit and we are far from convinced that it is sustainable. ...
  1 week ago

• Fight Hunger With SocialVibe’s Thanksgiving Feast

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and while many of us envision a table overflowing with a delicious feast, unfortunately the dinner table won’t look the same for the one billion people around the world who suffer from hunger.  So, this holiday season SocialVibe is inviting you to help fight hunger and ...
  1 week ago

• Slow Food NYC Online Auction Underway

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  Slow Food NYC started a 10 day online auction yesterday with proceeds set to benefit Slow Food NYC’s Harvest Time in Schools Program. The auction is going to run from November 18 through November 28 and features some pretty awesome items if you’re into food. Check out some of my favorite selections below.  ...
  1 week ago

• Grown In Detroit

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  Teen mothers turn urban farmers at Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit.
  1 week ago

• Help Save The Bed-Stuy Farm In Brooklyn (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  The Bed-Stuy Farm in Brooklyn, NY provides 7,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables every month to around 4,000 residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where healthy produce is otherwise difficult to find.  Unfortunately, this vitally important urban farm is in danger of being torn up and paved over in ...
  1 week ago

• Warming Sea Temperatures Drive Cod Away From Cape

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  roytsaplinjrs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Warming sea temperatures are driving Cape Cod’s namesake fish farther from Massachusetts shore as they seek colder waters farther out and deeper in the ocean, forcing fishermen to seek alternative catches.  Growing up just outside of Boston I enjoyed plenty of ...
  2 weeks ago

• It Should Be UK Leading the Way In Sustainable Farming Methods

  
  Going Green Power Blog — Authority: 133
  The national scientific debate committee known as The Royal Society has put forward a recommendation to UK government, stating that they should be investing more time and money into sustainable farming techniques and setting an example to other countries. Further more, they have argued that the government needs to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Urban Farming In The South Bronx

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  addictive_picassos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Urban farming has become increasingly popular these days, as more city dwellers search for rooftops, backyards and abandoned lots where they can grow vegetables.  In addition to providing fresh, healthy produce where concrete and convenience stores once ...
  2 weeks ago

• Farming on the Frontlines of Change: a Report-Back from Project Survival Media

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 584
  This post is provided on behalf of Project Survival Media – a grassroots, student-run media project designed to highlight the true costs of fossil fuels in the lead up to Copenhagen.  As part of this initiative, Project Survival Media team members in California and Oregon are documenting industrial ...
  2 weeks ago

• Martha Stewart Visits Brooklyn and Rooftop Farms

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  It’s hard not to love Martha Stewart. I mean she promote awesome things like eating well, cooking and crafting. Plus, she was one of Food, Inc ’s early champions sharing her love for the film with all of her Twitter followers! Well I am happy to report that Martha is now championing another project near and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Organic is the way forward – Soil Association

  
  Sheepdrove's Weblog — Authority: 117
  The Soil Association has published a new report, Food Futures: Strategies for resilient food and farming . It calls for a new cross-Governmental food strategy, and includes a series of recommendations for building resilience into our food systems including: Raising the target for greenhouse gas cuts in agriculture ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sharing and Preserving Local Farms: Community Supporting Agriculture and Agriculture Supporting Community

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 129
  The Hazon CSA communities in Seattle shared this video with me. I hope you enjoy their creative, videographic account of how Hazon CSAs share and preserve local sustainable farming resources. In their words, this is an account of community supporting agriculture and agriculture supporting community. The story is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Environmentally Friendly Farming Should Be High On UK Agenda

  
  Blog Your Site — Authority: 162
  The UK government have received a formal recommendation by The Royal Society, a national science debate organization, suggesting that more resources are needed to develop pioneering sustainable farming techniques. Further to this they state that the UK needs to consider how to support farmers and rural populations ...
  2 weeks ago

• School Lunch Food Fight Ends In Arrest of 25 Chicago Students

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  cornelluniversitylibrarys Flickr photostream/Creative Commons We take school lunch very seriously here at TakePart, particularly efforts to increase access to healthy, local ingredients, but a Chicago middle-school may have gone a little overboard when they had 25 students arrested for a cafeteria food fight .  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Les Tours Sauvignon Blanc for Wee Wallet Wednesday

  
  Life within me — Authority: 140
  Since grapes are among the most pesticide-laden produce, it’s no wonder we are reaching more often for organic wines to fill our glasses. That means more sustainable farming, without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and a healthier planet. What could be a better accompaniment to a meal of organic food than a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Apple Butter

  
  Art is the Handmaid of Human Good — Authority: 115
  I love this recipe. It’s easy and makes a deep, dark and rich apple butter. I was wondering what to do with the many, many, many CSA apples in the fridge when I stumbled across Lolly’s Food for Fall post – apple butter it would be! I chopped up a whole lotta apples… Put them in a pot with some CSA ...
  2 weeks ago

• H1N1 Flu and Pork Production Connection Raised By Jonathan Safran Foer

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  kevinhutchinsons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The vaccine for the H1N1 virus has received quite a bit of attention lately, however, important questions remain unattended about the origins of the vicious strain and the likely possibility that it spread from unsanitary conditions on factory pig farms.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Phish Festival 8: Reducing the Environmental Impact of a Rock Concert

  
  greenUPGRADER — Authority: 488
  In a recent conversation I had at the 3-day Phish Festival 8 with Matt Beck, Touring Director for Phish’s charitable organization, The WaterWheel Foundation, he said something that struck me as incredibly honest and from the heart: “There’s nothing about a rock and roll concert that is sustainable when you ...
  2 weeks ago

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