by guest blogger Marilyn Noble. Being an educated consumer isn’t always easy, but the more you learn about where and how your food is produced, the better your eating experience and health will be.
Tag Archives | Environment
On the Future of Food
The older I get, and the more I believe in the power of nature and the universe, the more magic happens (fueled significantly by Hard Work). Case in point: a little book we just published called The Prince’s Speech—On the Future of Food.
The Prince’s Speech:
A Love Poem to the Future
by guest blogger Laurie David. They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but when I heard Prince Charles’s speech about the future of food, I felt the same kind of jolt I felt the first time I saw Al Gore’s slide show on global warming.
Tell President Obama:
Don’t Deepen the Delaware
by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum. For more than 20 years, we’ve been challenging the Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to deepen the Delaware River’s main channel. Now the President is about to decide on whether or not to spend tax payer dollars on it.
A Visit to My Kitchen: Alisa Gravitz
Alisa Gravitz, green-living pioneer, social investment leader, and executive director of Green America, is in my kitchen today.
The Lost Art of Threshing
by guest blogger Tim Mountz. Sometimes the greatest things in life are the things that just happen to you and not the ones that you lay out in great plans. I did not choose to be a seed-growing farmer; it chose me.
10 Easy Ways to Become
a Zero-Waste Household
by guest blogger Bea Johnson. The zero in “zero waste” makes it sound scary and hard to achieve. It’s actually not as hard as it seems.
Don’t Be afraid of The O Word!
There is a café near my apartment that positions itself as ecofriendly and sustainable. The counter and tables are from reclaimed wood. Everything is compostable. And then one day, I asked if the milk was organic. The brand claims to free of pesticides, insecticides, and growth hormones, but there is no mention of The O Word: organic.
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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