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 blog: My Kitchen Nutrition .
Can you believe everything you read on food products? Unfortunately, the answer is: no, not really. I keep seeing commercials claiming that [...]

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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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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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This post comes from our friend Peter Hanlon, Outreach Associate for Network for New Energy Choices, a program of GRACE.

As 2009 drew to a close, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) quietly issued a decision that will dramatically decrease the destruction of fish within Long Island’s south shore estuary.  Tucked into the [...]

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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 blog: My Kitchen Nutrition at www.julienegrin.com/blog.
Some people call it procrastination – I prefer the phrase, “working well under pressure.”
Still need a few gifts? Forget the bath salts and striped [...]

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This article comes to us from The Mark, Canada’s daily online forum for news, commentary, and debate. By David Suzuki and co-authored by Faisal Moola.
In gearing up for the 2010 release of its super-genetically modified corn called “SmartStax,” agricultural-biotechnology giant Monsanto is using an advertising slogan that asks, “Wouldn’t it be better?” But can we [...]

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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 blog: My Kitchen Nutrition at www.julienegrin.com/blog.
I just got back from the annual Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) conference which took place in Des Moines, Iowa, or as some call [...]

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This blog is from Green Fork editor and Huffington Post blogger, Leslie Hatfield.

Earlier this week, the NY Times Freakonomics blog ran a guest post by author and historian James McWilliams, in which he attempts to weaken the case that the Times made in August regarding farmers’ markets: namely, that they strengthen communities.
Before I start boring [...]

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This review comes to us from our friend Kerry Trueman via Meatless Monday…
Get ready for a rare sighting this September: a funny, feel-good environmental documentary. Did An Inconvenient Truth fill you with doom and gloom? Has Food, Inc.’s alarming exposé of our toxic food chain left you with that awful Agribiz aftertaste?

Have no fear, No [...]

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This post comes to us from our friend Joey Lee at the Monday Campaigns.
The day Julia Child accidentally flipped her potato pancake out of the pan, the whole country watched as it hit the stove. This great moment in cooking history was recreated in this summer’s box office hit Julie and Julia, in which [...]

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