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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This post is from Sarah Newman over at Take Part:
It’s hard to see Food, Inc. and not be inspired.  Ok, so most people might not be selling their house and quitting their office job to become full time farmers  but the movie certainly inspires people to change something in their lives.  There’s a lot of [...]

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“Champagne wishes and caviar dreams…” Robin Leach’s signature phrase at the end of the show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” gone, but not forgotten (not by all of us – the show was on from 1984-95). I like to think of the now defunct idea of “rich and famous” being [...]

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We received this new video from the folks at Green Thing based in London. Green Thing is a not-for-profit group that encourages people to take simple steps that lead to a greener life. Their main goal is to make a difference in the fight against climate change using fun, new media to get the message [...]

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So you’re walking through the grocery store, looking to buy some organic macaroni and cheese, but there are so many options these days, which one to buy? What companies treat their workers fairly, what is their carbon footprint, how does the product weigh on your health? In today’s modern society, there are so many questions [...]

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Michael Pollan showed up on the Colbert Report last night to promote the release of  “In Defense of Food” in paperback. The message was the same as before: eat food, not too much, mostly plants – but with an amusing Colbert twist. See the clip below.

The Colbert Report
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Michael Pollan

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The marketing world has gone crazy for local food. In an attempt to glom on to the local movement, companies like Frito-Lay (a brand owned by PepsiCo) are defining the term in the loosest way possible (see the article we are quoted in Tuesday from USA Today). What defines local food anyway? Is it produced [...]

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