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  • BYOB-A Ban on Plastic Bags Hopefully Coming to Your State

    michelle victoria June 11, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Industrial food practices, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture

    California may become the first state to ban giving away plastic bags at the check out register. Many cities have already banned free plastic bags, in 2007 San Francisco became the first U.S. city to require supermarkets and large drug stores to offer customers bags made only of recyclable paper, plastic that can be turned

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  • Boulette’s Larder-As inviting as your best friend’s kitchen

    michelle victoria February 19, 2010     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

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  • A Smaller Footprint

    michelle victoria February 17, 2010     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

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