7 Points for Fantastic Food and Cities

22Nov09

Dr. Wayne Roberts spoke on food policy and a new vision for cities at Toledo Library in the US. As always his witty humour is always a hit. The photos he uses in the presentation are also quite insightful. Dr. Roberts also proposes hopeful solutions and answers to fixing cities and the food system. If you want the quick written summary you can read it below.

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Tags: careers, cities, colleges, Community Development, community food systems, Community Gardens, development, direct trade, economy, fair trade, Food, job, policy, public health, standard of living, urban, Wayne Roberts

How Vegetarianism Can Stop Global Warming

20Aug09

Eating meat spews out more air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than driving cars. In fact, cutting meat out helps more than switching to a Toyota Prius (2 times as much) or eating locally (12 times as much). Unfortunately lots of people like eating lots of meat as we’ve mentioned in a previous post.

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Tags: animals, consumption, energy, food miles, freight, health, lagoons, lifecycle, Lifestyle, manure, meat, Prius, Toyota, vegan, vegetarian

City Farm Hands – FoodCycles, Toronto, ON, ft/pt [Volunteer Job]

10Jul09

Are you interested in:  City farming, gardening and growing food?  Learning the practical side of environmental and food issues?  Getting lots of exercise and fresh air?  Composting and creating good soil?  Learning skills to get you a paying job?  Are you ready to make a difference!

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Tags: assistance, city, farming, FoodCycles, News, Urban Agriculture, volunteer

Peas in the Garden, Bones in the Soil

22Apr09

Anne Raver poetically describes soil and growing peas in Maryland and Sunny discusses how soil is a unique story that can be quite ‘telling’.

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Tags: fertility, Gardening, peas, planting, Soil, Soil Management

12 Foods To Buy Organic & Clean

28Mar09

Sheryl Eisenberg (This Green Blog) summarizes the latest list put out by the Environmental Working Group, a major US environmental and human health watch dog.

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Tags: chemicals, environmental, ewg, Food Safety, group, healthy living, organics, pesticides, poison, toxic, working

Appetite for organic food wilts as economy suffers – Boston.com

04Feb09

Sales figures show that shoppers are having second thoughts about the value of organic foods, particularly fruits, vegetables and meats. But they’re not giving up entirely on these products. Hennessey said she still pays a premium for organic cereal and eggs for her 4-year-old daughter, and Frantz said he splurges on organic eggs and dairy products.

Overall sales of organic food are still rising, though the industry’s robust growth of recent decades is tapering off, analysts said.

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Tags: clean, dairy, fair, Food, fruits, good, meat, organic, recession, retail, shop, shopping, supermarket, vegetables

Cooperation is Farming: Strength in Numbers

20Jan09

At the Quinte Organic Farmers Co-operative, the 13 members are defying the conventional wisdom drilled into MBA students at university business schools – that competition is the essence of success, and that constant growth is the holy grail.

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Tags: Agriculture, alternative, cooperative, distrubution, farming, Food, local, mechanisms, organic, production

6,000 Pounds of Produce on a Quarter-Acre

18Nov08

Robert McFalls’ new film, HomeGrown is the inspiring story of the Dervaes family – father, son and two daughters – that run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California.

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Tags: acre, biodiesel, biofuel, cultivation, energy, farming, Food, frontier, grid, local, off, prairie, solar, sub, sufficiency, urban