Delicious Hospital Food ? April 15, 2008
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Don’t believe it, check this post out and whilst you are there, take a look at what is a really excellent and interesting site.
Diggin your Dinner April 14, 2008
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Garden Organic have teamed up with ’seeds of change’ in some joint food/organic gardening promo – you see about it here.
Food Myths – UK November 28, 2007
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I really like Matthew Fort, this piece on the slow food site, which makes a number of interesting and striking points, but paints the Brits with perhaps too broad a brush. I was getting a bit irritated but then at the end he admits that his own knowledge is on shaky grounds, all too rare for a journalist and really welcome. So I’ll forgive the big brush and enjoy it.
Carnival of the Green August 3, 2007
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This post just keeps growing this week…..
Blogging, especially environmental blogging has always been focussed on the personal, in fact it often leads to a cottage industry where micro-scale retailing meets the green life. This posting of the Carnival represents that really well with Betsy Teutsch presenting Money Changes Things: The Perverse and Paradoxical Pricing of Recycled Paper posted at Money Changes Things. thoughts on the cost of recycled paper.
Whilst Tiffany’s family are obviously getting themselves together,
Tiffany Washko presents Eco Friendly School Days posted at Natural Family Living Blog</a
Tiffany Washko presents 30 Ways to Go Green with Your Family posted at Natural Family Living Blog.
Marilyn Terrell is tackling boston by pedal power Biking Boston posted at Intelligent Travel. and is celebrating Google’s latest triumph Intelligent Travel: Google Conquers Mass Transit posted at Intelligent Travel.
Kate and GP are getting seasonal with thoughts on holidays and how to camp it up in a green way.
Kate Baggott presents A Postcard from Bulgaria posted at Babylune.
GP presents How to Be a Happy Green Camper posted at Fish Creek House – INNside Innkeeping.
The Closet Environmentalist asks a really pertinent question about organic leather, which takes me back to a non-violent tannery I visited in India years ago – the heat, the smell, the slime………
I think that Preston is being serious but it is a bit of wild one.
Whilst the Savvy Vegetarian is being far less wild, feeding the planet organic plant materials. Whilst at the Veggie Revolution chimps are found to be altruistic (aren’t they omnivores?). Phil is playing with words and ideas A Plan to Rid the World of Polluting Power Plants « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity on a bit of plant theme. Whilst others have taken direct action to shut some plant down.
Stretch Mark Mama presents Awake to Nature posted at Stretch Mark Mama.
For a lighter footprint, you soap dodgers get a second chance.
For Facebookers there is a new way of working out your carbon footprint and how to reduce it. Looks like a good start, but can it be enough? Which takes us to Gavin R. Putland presents Democracy vs. universal suffrage posted at /etc/cron.whenever/. Where he ponders the role of democracy and sufferage.
Leon Gettler presents Climate change and company directors posted at Sox First.
If you are feeling overcome by such a tidal wave of seriousness, Isabella blends the political with the therapeutic at
turn it off posted at change therapy.
In a rain soaked and often very flooded England saving water is not really on the agenda, but if you need to here is how to do it.
A truly carnivalesque blend this week, enjoy.
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Organic Food and Farming Radio June 1, 2007
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Just stumbled across Food Radio and diving in to see how good it is … check it out at Food Radio.com
Wot no recipes April 10, 2007
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As a bit of a keen cook I was thinking about blogging about cooking and nutrition, but that looked over at the
and thought I would leave it to Georgina, who knows much more about it than I ever will.
Bring Fair Trade Home April 5, 2007
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Equal Exchange “Brings Fair Trade Home”
Fair Trade Pioneer Launches Line of Snack Products to Bring the Benefits of Fair Trade to American Family Farmers
West Bridgewater MA — April 2, 2007 —
Equal Exchange, known for Fairly Traded coffee, tea and chocolate, has introduced a line of packaged snacks including Organic Dried Cranberries, Roasted Georgia Pecans, and Organic Tamari-Roasted Almonds.
These “Domestic Fair Trade” products are sourced from family farmers and farmer co-operatives right here in the US.”Our goal is to ‘Bring Fair Trade Home,’” said Erbin Crowell, Domestic Fair Trade Program Manager for Equal Exchange. “For 20 years we have been connecting small farmers in the developing world with consumers here in the US. This is an opportunity to connect these consumers with family farmers here in our own backyard.”Equal Exchange’s roasted pecans, for example, are grown in southwest Georgia by the members of the Southern Alternatives Agricultural Co-op (SAAC), a co-operative of African-American farmers and workers.
In a region devastated by unemployment, SAAC helps to market its members’ pecans and operates a shelling facility that provides jobs in the community.How does Fair Trade, which has focused on international trade, work with U.S. farmers? “Fair Trade is not just about price, but about building long-term partnerships,” said Crowell. “Before we even purchased any pecans, Equal Exchange worked with SAAC to upgrade their equipment, figure out fair pricing, and then pre-paid about half of our contract so the co-op had working capital for the season.” Equal Exchange also provided an additional ‘Fair Trade development premium’ that the co-op can invest toward community needs.
Ollie’s Comments – Sustainable Organics March 9, 2007
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A few weeks ago I put up a post about a report into the sustainability of organic farming and mentioned that I was looking forward to hearing what Ollie Moore was going to say about it. Ollie as well as being a sociologist, and columnist for the (Irish) Examiner, he finds time to keep a blog. No surprise he has made comment both in the paper and on his blog. His comments are balanced pointing out the flaws in the report but also acknowledges that there are problems with organic production.
In turn this makes me think about a rather daft post I saw earlier this week about the new rules of eating. Okay it is a bit mean to pick out one example of this but it is the one I came across. I know that publishers are keen on the tag of rules, no doubt there is a best-selling guide to writing the rules about rules – but this irked me. By implying that there are rules it is asking to accept a set of strictures about our behaviour. The whole point of a great deal of food activism is to make you think, to express yourself through the food choices that are made and to incorporate that into your life. Yes, be mindful of how and where it was produced, the people who grew it to you, the pleasures of buying and preparing, but rules reduce that to a simplistic process.
Only by thinking and engaging, accepting that our ideas have flaws, that evidence is necessary – not just assertion and that we have to be actively thinking about it can we make a difference to the food we are eating and in turn how that is shaping our planet and culture. Rules, even if they are just rhetorical, are the last thing we need.
