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Posts tagged “food”

How Far Would You Go?
Greening All, Most, or Part of Your Lifestyle?

Going green means making decisions that might seem silly to others (eliminating dryer sheets? no more plastics?), but are probably very important to you. Otherwise, it seems, everyone would just do ...

Omnivorism: Still a Dilemma?

Meet Fernando, who will live his entire life on a farm in rural Texas. It's encouraging to see so many people vocally concerned with their food choices. People are turning toward local foods and org...

Reinventing Farming
NPR

We know that large-scale farming as it exists today presents all sorts of problems, ranging from the mass-producing scale to soil and resource depletion. Which is why Wes Jackson's work at the Land In...

Another Food Flick
Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution

We have been surprised at just how Food, Inc. has affected not just us, but folks around us. There's another film on the horizon, and Food Beware takes a different approach, giving viewers a success s...

Learning to Cook With Less Meat

If there's one thing we have learned in the last few months (the Summer of Food, as we like to think of it), it's that we should cut back our meat consumption. Thanks to Food, Inc., Michael Pollan, ...

Look! You Are What You Eat
What does your fridge say about you?

click thumbnails for larger pics Consider what resides in your refrigerator: would it provide some insight into your household consumption? Mark Menjivar explores the issue of hunger and the effects ...

Found Food: Do You Forage for Food?

Never growing larger than the fingernail on our pinky finger and ranging in color for ruby red to purple, we're not completely sure if these are raspberries or unripe blackberries. In either case, th...