sustainable agriculture

Why We Should All Eat Locally

Many regions have declared September “Local Food Month.” It’s not a national celebration yet, but let’s hope it doesn’t become one. Every month should be local food month, and here’s why:

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Weekly Environmental News Highlights – 9/10/2009

There is so much gloom and doom environmental news these days, sometimes it’s hard not to feel depressed. So this week, for a mental health pick-me-up, I’ve intentionally searched out good news; stories of positive events and people making a difference. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

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Environmental News Highlights – 9/3/2009

It’s been a busy week in the world of eco-friendly living, and choosing just a few links out of the dozens of great, breaking stories on environmental health, sustainable agriculture and nutrition has been challenging to say the least. Here are a few that I thought were too important to go unnoticed…

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Environmental News Highlights – 8/27/09

This week was more positive for environmental and health news fortunately. Here are some interesting highlights:

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Raw Eggplant Ravioli

Eggplants are ready for harvest in the garden, and they are making their appearance in my CSA box too. Eggplants are beautiful, relatively easy vegetables to grow and delicious, diversely nutritious vegetables to eat.

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Reason No. #4,298 to Go Organic

With all the poo-pooing of organic food in the mainstream media lately, I thought I’d post this week on one little-known reason to eat organic that might convince even the most die-hard organic skeptic: Poop. Ironically, while industrial agriculture methods leave vast quantities of animal manure to languish in toxic lagoons that destroy quality of [...]

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