Tag: Farmers Markets - Page 6
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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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Love Your Farmers Market? Help Them Win Some Moola This Summer
Care2 and LocalHarvest.org are sponsoring the Love Your Farmers Market contest to encourage people to get out to area farmers markets, as well as, put a little money back into the market for the most popular venues. So show your favorite weekly spot a
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Jillian Michaels Wants You to Master Your Metabolism, the Green Way
Calling Jillian Michaels a fitness guru is kinda like saying Oprah Winfrey is sorta influential or Kim Jong-il has a little problem expressing himself. She is a fitness god…or goddess, whichever! She is the go-to for millions of people that want a
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In San Diego? Sample the City's Green Scene on the Cheap
While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening
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7 Things I Wish Every City Would Do to Make Urban Living Even Greener
Though it sometimes might not seem so, living in cities is a pretty green thing to do. Two prime reasons being that average home sizes are smaller and transportation distances are generally shorter, both leading to lower
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Chipotle Institutes Local Produce Program
If you’re visiting a destination where you can’t seem to find a sustainable bite, you might be in luck if there’s a Chipotle around the corner. Chipotle, which has in the past taken steps towards being a more ecologically responsible
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Sarcastic, Green Cards You Won't Be Embarrassed to Send
In the never-ending quest to find green products that are as environmentally responsible as possible, but that also don't look like a four-year old made them, sometimes the going can get rough. That's why it took two sassy ladies
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FIG Chef Forages for Food in Santa Monica
Opened in February 2009, FIG Restaurant chef Ray Garcia is serving up inspired dishes that don't just include greens, they are aiming to run the gamut of green by including all of the buzzwords - local, organic, sustainable,
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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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Berkeley Farmers' Market Leaves Plastic Bags Behind
The Berkeley Farmers' Markets are just saying no to all plastic bags and packaging from their three weekly markets. Their "Zero Waste" campaign is trying to "remove, reduce, and recycle plastic and to recycle
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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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What Jamie Oliver Cooked for the Leaders of the World
Jamie Oliver, aka the Naked Chef, cooked dinner for the G-20 summit last night. And what did the leaders of the world eat? Since it's Jamie, we know that it was local, fresh, seasonal and sustainable. And yummy.
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Organic Growers Optimistic Despite Economic Crunch
The global financial crisis has hit Turkey as hard as anywhere else, with sales and production numbers down in many industries and a big rise in
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Brazilian City Makes Food A Basic Right And Ends Hunger
Back in 1993, the newly elected city government of Belo Horizonte, Brazil declared that food was a right of citizenship. At that time, the city of 2.5 million had 275,000 people living in
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Proposed Law Could Hit Farmers' Market Vendors with $1,000,000 Fines
A 'Food Safety Modernization' bill was recently introduced to the House of Representatives—and as it stands, a new government organization could fine food vendors, manufacturers, distributors, and farmers up to $1 million
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Organic vs Local? Who Cares. Neither is Sustainable.
While last year we were debating whether it's better to buy organic or local (or both), an article in Mother Jones now reports that we have even bigger fish to fry when it comes to our food production. While dreams of our future
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Which Milk Container Has the Lowest Carbon Emissions?
Image via Telegraph.co.uk Dear Pablo: I have been wondering for some time what a life cycle analysis would show is the "greenest" way to ship milk. Plastic containers are light, but are not reusable and don't biodegrade; cardboard containers are less
