Tomorrow is full of online chats about sustainable agriculture – the first hosted by the USDA at 3pm (Eastern) with Kathleen Merrigan and the second hosted by Take Part featuring Gary Hirshberg at 9pm (Eastern).
Thursday at 3 p.m. – Kathleen Merrigan, “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food”
Agriculture deputy secretary Kathleen Merrigan will host her second [...]

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The Global Oneness Project is exploring how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world. Their beautiful and moving film, A Thousand Suns, tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area [...]

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I started this series, “If This Doesn’t Convince You, Nothing Will,” to help you make the connection between personal health and sustainable food (read the introduction post here). I’m starting with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) which is widely known to have some obvious health issues and also some very obvious sustainability issues too.  Easy, [...]

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This blog post comes to us from our friends at Healthy Monday…
The beginning of autumn marks the point when many of our favorite fruits and vegetables are ripe for the picking. This year, harvest has become a national affair. Michelle Obama’s famed White House garden is in bloom and ready to offer its bounty to [...]

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From our friend Kerry Trueman at the Huffington Post:
Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong And How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly is the literary equivalent of a turd blossom, the Texan term for a flower that pops up out of a cow patty. James McWilliams, an associate professor at Texas State University, [...]

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This post comes from our friend Julie Negrin M.S. – Julie is a nutritionist, cooking instructor, writer and most recently, a blogger – check out her new blog: My Kitchen Nutrition at www.julienegrin.com/blog. She was also just visiting NYC for 5 weeks to teach and had the opportunity to visit Rooftop Farms.

Have you ever [...]

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Things are happening in the sustainable food world! The White House has a food garden, Michelle Obama is talking about the importance of real food, and the Child Nutrition Act, which sets standards for the food offered to more than 30 million school children, is up for reauthorization, providing a timely opportunity to dramatically improve [...]

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I just started reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Written in 1962, this amazing book strangely reads like it was written with many of our pesticide and chemical problems in mind, from 2009! While DDT was banned in the 70s in the US (because of attention brought to its problems in Silent Spring), I read an [...]

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Green Screens at the Film Society of Lincoln Center presents “Pig Business“ – NY Premiere, One Night Only! Tuesday, July 14, 6:30 p.m. – with The Meatrix!
About Pig Business:

Four years ago, seasoned campaigner, eco-warrior, and mother of three Tracy Worcester set out to discover who was paying the real price for the [...]

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I love vegetables. I like them organic and local and sustainable. I eat organic to keep pesticides and other chemicals out of my body. It seems like a smart thing to do, even amidst inconclusive reports about what the chemicals might do to a person’s body. I keep them out, so I won’t have to [...]

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