Tag: Food Miles - Page 4
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Online Grocer Delivers Local and Organic Produce Door-to-Door
Spud delivers sustainable groceries free of charge
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Can Local Food Be As Efficient as Industrial Agriculture?
The Freakonomics boys say no, and it always comes back to strawberries
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iPhone App Uses Crowdsourcing To Improve Your Eating Habits
The Eatery connects you with your friends to keep you honest about the health of your meals, and get you in to better habits.
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Dickson Despommier on the Rise of the Vertical Farm (Podcast)
Science of science fiction? Dickson Despommier, the father of vertical farming, discusses what the future of agriculture might look like.
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Online Hub Could Become the 'Fresh Direct' of Locally Grown Food
Local Orbit seeks to streamline the process of connecting local farmers with restaurant and shop owners, expanding the horizons of sustainable food in the process.
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Allotment Gardens Have Lessons for All
This delightful little model allotment garden in the middle of London's busy Kensington Gardens has something to teach all gardeners.
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Organic and Local On the Rise at Grocers Nationwide. Energy Efficiency, Too
Times are tough right now, but that isn't stopping the grocery industry, which like other industries is seeing pretty slow growth, from increasing the presence of organic and local items on shelves. The organic industry
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Slow Eggs from Native Chicken Get Attention Again
In and around Barcelona slow food and local delicatessen have become quite the thing lately. Projects like the slow food restaurant Fastvínic or the happy pig farm Finca del Saüc are popping up like mushrooms. Via the blog
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Study Comparing Local To Meat-Free Diet Is Dated and Debunked
All the blogs are writing about a Harvard Business Review story by Andrew Winston, titled Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story ; even our Rachel picked it up with New Study: Going
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Slow Food Gets Fast, Meets Good Design at Fastvinic, an Eco-Cozy Sandwich Shop
The other day I had a delicious local sandwich in the fabulous new space Fastvínic in Barcelona. It seems the Catalan capital has finally got a place where fast slow food meets good design (and not hippyness). What's on the
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Real Food Festival Delivers the Real Thing from Small Producers
The Real Food Festival is a chance to meet the small, artisanal producers of some of the food that we love to buy. They are the little guys who are trying to create a revolution in packaged food.
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What My Puppy Taught Me About Being an Omnivore
The natural instincts driving puppies can barely be hemmed by us humans, even if we think we know better. Take eating, for example. Puppies chew on everything. A hierarchy evolves: things that are fun to rip and tear but must
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Local Food Freedom Laws Enacted in Maine
Blue Hill, Maine will be one of several towns in Maine to recently enact food freedom laws declaring that the federal government doesn't have the right to intervene in local food matters, according to a story on Natural News. The bill
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Best of Green: Food and Health
When it comes to the issues that we cover every day on TreeHugger, those relating to food and health have a unique impact on our lives; after all, we all have to eat, every day. While that creates different challenges and opportunities across different
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Free Music to Make Your Plants Grow
London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has just played its first performance to an audience of plants, definitely its most fragrant ever.
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More Reason to Eat Local: Demand for Greens Leading to Salad Slaves
"Reformed" vegetarian Lierre Keith always said that vegetarianism and veganism is not always the "kind to the earth, don't kill animals" philosophy it's cracked up to be. Last week The Guardian exposed one of the dirty secrets of Europe's insatiable
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New Food Carbon Emissions Calculator Pinpoints Your Diet's True Footprint
In the past it's been difficult to dig to the bottom of your diet's carbon footprint. It's difficult to include all the data behind food production and transport in one calculator. While various carbon footprint calculators can
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James Beard Foundation Launches Sustainability Initiative
You won't find a chef in this country that doesn't hope that one day they will get the honor of a James Beard Award. It's the Emmys of chefdom and as an avid gastronomical enthusiast you can't help but to look for the award on the
