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  • Apple Quits U.S. Chamber of Commerce, joins PG&E, PNM And Exelon

    michelle victoria October 6, 2009     No Comment     Climate Change, Sustainable Businesses

    The EPA finally took some serious steps last week to curtail global warming with a proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions but it looks as if the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (the world’s largest business federation with 3 million businesses as members) cannot recognize that this is good for business, not to mention the environment.

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  • Bioneers-Sharing solutions to our environmental and social crises.

    michelle victoria October 2, 2009     No Comment     Changing Habits, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Businesses

    “Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations”. Since I had been living in Europe for much of the last nine years I was not familiar with Bioneers until recently. For a more detailed explanation of who they are and what

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  • More from Embudo…a video so you can be there too!

    michelle victoria October 1, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Restaurants, Santa Fe, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses, Video Clips

    Here is a short Video from Embudo Station from my visit there a few weeks ago. It is filmed, produced and edited by my friend Sharyn Bey, who I will be working with to bring you more live action from places that I visit.  It is almost like being there except that you don’t get

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  • Embudo Station…Farm to table along the Rio Grande

    michelle victoria September 17, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Restaurants, Santa Fe, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses

    Have you ever noticed how sometimes you drive past a business without giving it any thought at all and other times your curiosity is immediately, or perhaps over time, peaked. When you travel on Hwy. 68, the “low road” from Santa Fe to Taos you pass Embudo Station which is located on the banks of

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  • Very Hip, Very Sustainable, Very Delicious…Akasha

    michelle victoria September 3, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses

    Akasha is a wonderful restaurant serving American comfort food (and some other countries versions too) that just happens to use the finest local, organic and hand-crafted ingredients that can be found. It feels to me as if Akasha Richmond, the chef/owner, has the gift of creating amazing dishes and her own personal values insist on

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  • Lobbyists On Our Side

    michelle victoria September 2, 2009     No Comment     Farmers Markets, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Businesses

    If you want to know more about the food that you are eating, and what you can do to protect our food supplies this is a great web site. It is nice to know that their are a few lobbyists in Washington protecting our interests. This is their Mission Statement: Food & Water Watch protects

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  • Cru in Silverlake-Delicious and Organic

    michelle victoria August 31, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses

    Raw or cooked, Cru’s vegan dishes will have you wondering why you would ever eat any other way. Chef Rachel Carr has perfected the art of vegan cooking and food preparation…how else can you describe her wonderful ‘uncooked’ raw dishes. Originally, Cru served exclusively raw dishes but now you can enjoy both delicious raw and cooked dishes

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  • Green Design is Good Design

    michelle victoria August 29, 2009     No Comment     Changing Habits, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Businesses

    Here is an interesting blog all about design, architectural and interior, as well as fashion, art and technology but from a green perspective. So much is possible we just need to recognize a new way of doing things, and it is happening before our very eyes. Creativity is often enhanced out of necessity and perhaps

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  • Not Your Ordinary Oatmeal

    michelle victoria August 29, 2009     1 Comment     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Recipes, Restaurants, Santa Fe, Sustainable Businesses

    Located on Canyon Road the most charming gallery street in Santa Fe, the Teahouse is much more than a place to go for a cup tea.  At the Teahouse you can have breakfast, lunch or dinner and know that you are enjoying organically grown and locally produced food. Dionne Christian, the owner of the Teahouse,

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  • Delicious Food that Heals

    michelle victoria August 27, 2009     1 Comment     Los Angeles, Restaurants, Sustainable Businesses

    Let thy food be thy medicine, wise words from Hippocrates, the father of medicine, spoken almost 2500 years ago. Unfortunately much of today’s food is making us sick and we need to rethink what we eat so that our food can once again make us and keep us healthy. The birth of Seed has quite

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