michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Industrial food practices, School Lunches
Last night was the preview for Chef Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution. I will say from the start as much as I love to cook, and I even opened a coffee house/cafe to fulfill this love of cooking, I rarely watch cooking shows and had never seem Jamie’s TV show. Naturally I have
michelle victoria 3 Comments Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture
Not too long ago Silk products, including their Silk soy milk, switched from using organic soybeans to cheaper commercial or ‘natural’ (as their web site says) soybeans in almost all of their products. This switch took place in a way that most consumers would never have noticed. Initially the packaging remained virtually unchanged except for
michelle victoria 1 Comment Body Care Products, Changing Habits
Once again the Organic Consumers Association is watching out for us with their Coming Clean Campaign. They have prepared a “spreadsheet” showing a number of body care products including Dr. Bonners, Nature’s Gate Organics, Jasons Natural Cosmetics, Kiss My Face, Avalon Organics and quite a few others showing what is relatively safe and what is
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Energy
This is a great web site to learn about what it takes to build a green house that is totally modern in its use of what today’s technology, building materials and appliances have to offer while maintaining a standard of what many families are accustomed to. This is no off-the-grid, we are going to slightly
michelle victoria 2 Comments Changing Habits
Slow Death By Rubber Duck-the Secret Danger of Everyday Things, is a book about the prevalence of chemicals in our everyday lives. Chemicals that are found in our cosmetics, furniture, food and bedding and that remain in our bodies contributing to so many types of illness from cancer to birth defects. But what makes this
michelle victoria 1 Comment Industrial food practices, Sustainable Businesses
This is a great short quiz from Planet Green that will bring to your attention who really owns many of the largest organic food brands…You may be surprised. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing if we think a brand is independently owned and it turns out that a mega-corporation actually owns it, but it
michelle victoria 1 Comment City Information, Gardens and Farms, Sustainable Businesses, Sustainable Energy
I recently wrote about a plan, which is actually beginning to come to fruition, to create a major urban farm in Detroit called Hantz Farms; you can read it here. One of the inspiring aspects of this project is that Detroit is probably one of the most surprising places one could imagine to create a
michelle victoria 2 Comments Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Restaurants, San Francisco-Bay Area, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture
Imagine a restaurant that feels as if you are in your best friends kitchen, that is if your best friend happens to be a fabulous cook and uses only the freshest and mainly local ingredients. This is the feeling that I had at Boulette’s Larder in San Francisco, at the Ferry Building. You would not
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Recycling, San Francisco-Bay Area, Transportation
Today as I was beginning to flatten cardboard boxes for recycling day I admit I was initially annoyed at having to do this. I thought about all of the cardboard that doesn’t get recycled, would my few boxes really matter? Then I thought about what had been in the boxes and I realized that they
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture
Here is a great piece from treehugger.com about GMOS’s. The main point of the story is why have Americans accepted the massive inclusion of genetically modified food in our food supply, without much of a fight. And I will add, why has our government been complicit in this. Last week in India the release of genetically