Walking through the door of the renovated Bed-Stuy warehouse, you may ask yourself, “what is this place?”  Ahead, people swipe cards and work on touch screens computers. To your left, a well-stocked lending library; further ahead, a sun-drenched stairway, and to the right, a cheery cafeteria. Is it an office, a government building, a co-op? [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Wellness guru Dr. Andrew Weil calls garlic “one of the best general tonics for the healing system”.  Those pungent, spicy little cloves reportedly have the ability to lower cholesterol levels and blood sugar, fight cardiovascular disease, enhance your immune system, and protect your liver and brain [...]

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Which is to say, she asks some tough questions that probably shouldn’t be so tough to answer. Couric’s recent series on the use of antibiotics in industrial livestock production – which she refers to several times as factory farming – made a splash in the food issue blogosphere, but what folks might not know [...]

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From our friend Kerry Trueman over at the Green Fork blog:

It’s a good thing Michelle Obama’s arms are so fabulously fit, because she’s just signed on to do some serious heavy lifting. At Tuesday’s White House launch of the Let’s Move campaign, the First Lady declared her ambition to end [...]

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Typical studies for middle and high school students include calculus, biology, history and chemistry, but let’s face it, who really remembers the atomic weight of Scandium? While some lessons are quickly learned and quickly forgotten, there are certain themes that stick with students, particularly those affecting and applicable to everyday life. The recently released No [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Two weeks ago the New England Journal of Medicine released a study that found cutting back on the salt in our diets has the potential to prevent 32,000 strokes, 54,000 heart attacks and 60,000 cases of heart disease a year. This Valentine’s day the best thing you [...]

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This post comes just in time for Super Bowl popcorn eating from our friend Julie Negrin’s blog, My Kitchen Nutrition – see recipe too:
Food. Healthy. Diets. Eating. Cooking. Sustainable. Local. All big buzz words for 2010. I have dozens of blog posts ruminating in my head that cover all of these topics – attempts to [...]

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You’re trying to avoid E.coli tainted beef, so instead of having a hamburger for dinner, you opt for a salad. I’m afraid you may be out of luck again however if you’re buying pre-washed greens. The Huffington Post reports on high amounts fecal matter in packaged salad.
Reuters reports on a recent University of Liverpool [...]

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From Regina over at The Green Fork blog:
In a ruling certain to discourage communities from fighting the construction of factory farms in their areas,  last week the Illinois Supreme Court rejected an appeal by residents who are being sued for $300,000 in costs and damages after their unsuccessful attempt to have environmental issues addressed before [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Stuffed and Starved author Raj Patel is back with his new book The Value of Nothing. It’s slim but it’s brimming with ideas challenging our market system and the consumer passivity that brought us to economic collapse. The Value of Nothing shows how the environment and the economy come together [...]

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