michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Businesses, Sustainable Energy
Green jobs, green cars, a green economy, do you ever wonder what exactly qualifies as green and how green is green? It has been said that green is the new black…a trend, a new wave, maybe even a cool way to live. But is that it? There are so many good reasons for this ‘greening’,
michelle victoria No Comment Changing Habits, Climate Change, Farmers Markets, Industrial food practices, Investing, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Businesses
Friends of Slow Money are at it….. Are you fighting to protect the environment? Mitigate climate change? Save the oceans? End oil dependency? Improve health? Improve food systems? Preserve freedom? Imagine if your $5 contribution (coupled with thousands of others) could launch a whole new movement — one that fixes our food system, empowers social
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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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This is really dangerous for a lot of reasons….chickens from China for US consumption! Where to even begin on why this should not happen: factory farms, inhumane conditions, far, far away from local and sustainable. This is not about protectionist policy but something much bigger. Please check this out, it is time to stop allowing
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Imagine that Americans who eat a typical, commercially processed American diet are probably eating some form of corn in every meal. The documentary film King Corn http://www.kingcorn.net/ (available at Netflix) shows two friends who decide to grow an acre of corn in Iowa to learn what is involved to grow it and where it
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Sometimes the larger issues that we read about and we know are reaching a critical point seem so monumental a sense of powerlessness can overwhelm us, global warming can be one of these issues. But, the good news is there are many things that each of us can do on a daily basis to halt