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  • Real, Sustainable Food at Colleges….

    michelle victoria September 6, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Films to see, School Lunches, Sustainable Agriculture

    I just came across this great blog that was started by a student at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and now has been taken over by another student, to encourage bringing sustainably raised food to colleges across the country. Many schools are working on this drastic change to what usually had been found on

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  • Can we live without Monsanto?

    michelle victoria September 4, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

    Going GMO free…. After reading about the possible health effects of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn April Dávila did some research and then decided to go “Monsanto-free” for a month. You can read her story at Yes magazine (a great magazine if you don’t know about it). What she discovered was that this was not such

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  • Let Your Voice Count-Say No to GE Salmon

    michelle September 1, 2010     1 Comment     GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

    Let Your Voice be Heard-GE Salmon could become a reality. This is something that we all need to pay attention to, and stop….The FDA is considering approving GE (genetically engineered) salmon for human consumption. I don’t know about you, but I like my salmon to be 100% salmon, with no genes from other species…. “The

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  • Ride Your Bike to Support Climate and Energy Solutions.

    michelle victoria August 31, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Climate Change, Sustainable Energy

    I have been seeing so many people on bikes in Los Angeles, ok, mainly down by the beach in Venice, Santa Monica and Marina del Rey but in other parts of town too. I am thrilled whenever I can take a bike to shop or go wherever I am headed, and here in LA I

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  • Can you make it to Bioneers?

    michelle victoria August 29, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Energy

    The annual Bioneers Conference is coming soon, and possibly even to a city near you. Last year I attended for the first time and it was an amazing, and empowering experience. I was able to listen to Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil (and he did an evening of comedy with a friend that was hysterical), Joanna Macy,

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  • Santa Fe Farm Tour is Sunday

    michelle victoria August 28, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Recipes, Sustainable Agriculture

    This Sunday is the Santa Fe Farmers Market 15th annual Farm Tour. Four farms that are members of the Santa Fe Farmers Market will open their gates for all of us to come for a visit. For most of the day you can drive through beautiful Northern New Mexico, between Santa Fe and Taos, visit

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  • No Impact Man and Planet Green

    michelle victoria August 26, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Gardens and Farms

    If you have not seen the film No Impact Man and have channel Planet Green you are in luck. Saturday, August 28, at 10/9c pm No Impact Man will have its television premier. This is a great film and you can read about in another post. What I liked so much about the film is

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  • A Ton of Bad Eggs…..

    michelle August 25, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    The egg recall of a half billion eggs (that is a lot of eggs to collect) that is just winding down will hopefully be a wake-up call to the realities of industrialized, factory produced food and the dangers of large, concentrated food producers who supply the entire country…not to mention companies that have repeatedly violated food

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  • Eggplant, Zucchini and Potato

    michelle victoria August 23, 2010     No Comment     Farmers Markets, Recipes

    Once again necessity sparked my creativity and luckily something delicious came out of it. I was getting ready to head back to Santa Fe and wanted to finish off what I had in the fridge….all bought at Saturday’s Playa Vista farmers market (This was my first time there and I really liked it. It’s small

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  • Bye Bye McMansions

    michelle August 14, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Sustainable Building

    I just came across this great story from MNN-Mother Nature Network. It shows ten really compact houses and many of them are so cool looking. Check out this Nano House that is meant for a family of four and measures in at 25 square meters. Maybe America would be looking a lot different, in a

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