Tag: Community Supported Agriculture - Page 3
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Can a Dude Ranch Save the Planet and Make Employees Happier?
Sounds like some terrible Office Space bonding experience, or an option on a 401k, right? Well, this "Ranch," of sorts, was actually championed by the employees at Haberman & Associates, a public relations firm in Minneapolis,
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There's No Such Thing as Local vs. Organic Food
Let's clear up one issue: There is no such thing as local vs. organic. When it comes to consumer choice, we should be buying local and organic, though for mostly different reasons.Why We Should Buy Local Local is
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Top 8 Green Food Movements of All Time
Religious laws based on moral principles and establishing the first health guidelines inspired the first food movements. The history of modern food movements could be said to date to the formation of the Vegetarian
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A Tale of Two Will Allen's: "Industrial Agriculture One of Most Polluting & Dangerous Industries"
Left: Will Allen, founder of urban farm non-profit Growing Power (Photo: Kate Croft via The White House Organic Farm Project); Right: Will Allen, author of War on Bugs (Photo: Chelsea Green Publishing) Urban agriculturalist extraordinaire and MacArthur
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Green Gift Guide: Green Gourmets
It's such a pleasure buying gifts for foodies. The possibilities are endless and you can find something interesting and delightful in every price range. This list of green foodie gifts is quite personal; I have a connection to everything that I'm
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Milwaukee's First Rooftop CSA
Urban areas leave little room for gardening and greenery. Community gardens and green roofs give city dwellers the opportunity to enjoy greenery and gardening and now a rooftop farmer in Milwaukee started Milwaukee's first rooftop
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Best of Green: Food & Health (Slideshow)
Update: Vote now for Best of Show! Now that the initial voting period has ended, it's time to vote for the 'Best in Show' -- check out the category winners in the Best in Show slideshow, and then click over to Planet Green to View & Vote for your
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Best of Green: Food & Health
Green food and good health go hand in hand. So while the best food choices and options vary greatly by locale, the best-practices and principles that apply to good food and good remain the same no matter where you live. With that in mind, we present the p
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Don't Be Shy. Make a Difference with Horny Toad's 9 in '09 Program
Horny Toad, the Californian maker of the outdoor lifestyle clothing, launched its 9 in '09 Make a Difference program at the start of March. You've heard of the phrase, "blind leading the blind," well, this is more like the 'brave leading the
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Maharishi U Joins Seed Savers with 100 Year Old Heirloom Seeds
Things are in bloom over at Maharishi University, (Iowa) which just recently joined the Seed Savers Exchange. The program is designed "to preserve the genetic legacy of vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit trees" and for their
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Seven Ways to Eat Green (and Inadvertently Lose Weight)
With the U.S. ranking as the fattest country in the world and therefore home to most of the world’s weight conscious, I’ve often marveled over the fact that the emerging green food movement is never touted as a diet—even
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Forget the 100 Mile Diet, Try the 100 Yard Diet: Grow Your Own Bread
image: The Tyee The Hundred Mile Diet is so....2005. And so big! In their book, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon described how hard it was to find bread that met the criterion, and about their search for flour that was grown within a hundred miles of
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Ohio Organic Co-op Raided by Local Law Enforcement
Food cooperatives come in all shapes and sizes - from the corner health food store jointly owned and operated by its members - to buying clubs that aggregate
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From the Forums: Most Offensive Non-Green Junk Mail Ever?
I take offense to junk mail period. But the mailing I got today takes the cake by a long shot:
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Holiday Gift Guide: For the Foodie
Photo via Sactivist Welcome to TreeHugger's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide, "Give Green to Save Green," your blueprint for the season's best earth-friendly gifts. Don't expect any electric roadsters or solar-powered robots, though; this year, we're all about
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The Best Chocolate in the World Now on the Shelves at Whole Foods
If you have been following the journey of the Kallari organic chocolate cooperative since I first wrote about them in January 2006 you will be as delighted as we are to hear that Kallari chocolate bars are now available to buy from Whole Foods in the
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100-Mile Diet for College Students
So eating local and the 100-mile diet sounds good to you, but you're a college kid on a meal-plan. You don't get to choose your food any more than you got to choose that night-owl roomate of yours. Well help is on the way
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Smock Paper Offers First Bamboo Stationary Line
Image source: Smock Paper Smock Paper is the first company in the US to offer "printing on luxury bamboo paper." For those of you hosting a party, getting married or just looking for something different to write home to mom on, Smock Paper offers an
