Earth Talk response to locavore: Whole Foods’ success with local producers inspires national grocery chains to “buy fresh buy local” EarthTalk®: From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazinea>Whole Foods, which was buying from local farmers and ranchers since it opened its first store in 1980 in Austin, Texas. Dear EarthTalk Maria Fine, Somerville, MA By [...]
Excerpt from article published 11.11.09 by Huffington Post …I wonder if more of the difficulty doesn’t come from the ways that we talk and think about change. When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. It’s a strange formulation, and it’s distracting. [...]
Tags: animal welfare, biodiversity, change, environmentalist, global warming, Jonathon Safran Foer, meat, quitting meat, vegetarian
EU: City of Ghent Goes Veg One Day A Week To Lose Weight and Save The Planet Day of the Lentil Burgers: Ian Traynor, Guardian, UK, May 14 2009 On the eve of what is being touted as an unprecedented exercise, the biggest queue in the Flemish university town of 200,000 yesterday was for signatures [...]
Tags: cruelty to animals, Ghent, global warming, healthy living, meat-free eating, obesity, sustainable, vegetarian, veggie day
You’d think that anybody who’s paying attention couldn’t possibly miss what’s going on in the world, but sometimes we can’t see the deforestation for the trees. Yesterday I read three articles which helped me connect the dots: Capitalist greed, leading to planetary destruction and global suffering – pandemics, drought, extreme poverty, starvation, mass migrations, and [...]
Comments on articles about global warming & sustainable eco-ag in CommonDreams.org by Bill McKibbon, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson Bill McKibben is the author of ‘Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future’, scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and cofounder of 350.org. He shoots down a half dozen common delusions about global warming [...]
