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Five Movie Classics That Will Wean You Off of Meat

Aug 30, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

Over the years, some movie scenes were successful in dissuading me from eating meat. I share a few of those scenes today. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane tops the list.

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A Sweet Gallery of Cool Summer Bites

Aug 29, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

Summer means ice cream, and Sweet Bite Creamery of Washington, DC has been defining frozen desserts at DC regional farmers’ markets lately. A photo tour is in order. Come aboard!

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Detroit: The Motor City Turns into FarmVille

Aug 26, 2010 No Comments by Leon Kaye

All is not lost in the Motor City. A Michigan State University study suggests that the 5000 acres of vacant land could provide Detroit’s residents about 70% of the vegetables and 40% of the fruit that they need. Could a new version of Facebook’s Farmville be on the way???

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Mega Farms Hold a Key to Sustainable Agriculture

Aug 25, 2010 No Comments

From its humble origins in Peru, the tomato has taken the world by storm the past 500 years, becoming the staple of cuisines from Armenian to Italian to Oaxacan. Annual global consumption is over 100 million tons and growing. One farm that grows those mass-produced tomatoes while working hard to ensure their sustainability is in Yolo County, California, not far from UC-Davis.

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The Definitive Global Ice Cream Guide

Aug 20, 2010 No Comments

Like other American innovations, other countries have hijacked this delicious treat and made it their own. Why do these countries offer such supurb frozen concoctions? First, fresh ingredients like fruit and cream help. Bulgaria, Hungary, Korea, Brazil, and Argentina top the list

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Sunny Delight Joins the Zero Waste Bandwagon

Aug 19, 2010 No Comments

It may not be so healthy if you drink this much, but Sunny Delight is joining the sustainability parade: its bottling plants followed the zero waste route, and made other environmental strides as well.

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When Gardening in Poland Became Ecological Again

Aug 17, 2010 4 Comments

While I was in Amsterdam for the GRI Conference in May, I met Katarzyna Dulko, a freelance journalist who is also a sustainability manager for a leading European conglomerate. I thought I’d ask her to share her interests—in some ways she is like a Polish Rachel Carson.

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The Myths of Organic, Natural, and Slow Food

Aug 15, 2010 2 Comments

As Professor Laudan explains in her blog and in the Utne Reader, wistful nonstalgia masks the reality of what fresh and natural used to mean

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Sweet Bite Creamery Takes on the DC Ice Cream Establishment

Aug 04, 2010 2 Comments

Ashley Allen and Tricia Widgen started Sweet Bite Creamery, which features a collection of ice cream sandwiches that are not your ordinary Klondike Bar.

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Cork or Plastic? Wine and Cork Producers Fight it Out

Aug 01, 2010 3 Comments

More wineries are moving towards plastic bottles and aluminum caps and away from cork stoppers. Some would say this is alarming for a host of reasons. Harvesting cork has been an ancient practice that keeps a cluster of cork trees, which are almost entirely in Portugal and Spain, alive. But how critical is the continued harvesting of cork?

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After 378 Years, A New Hampshire Farm Calls It Quits

Aug 01, 2010 1 Comment

After 11 generations, the farm, or “Tuttle’s Red Barn,” which by some accounts is the oldest continually operating farm in the United States, will close its operations.

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