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Portland targets 30 percent reduction of garbage with food composting program – Wed, 31 Aug 2011 PST
Portland’s City Council has approved a new program that integrates food scraps into solid waste pickup, with the hope of diverting up to 30 percent of residential garbage away from landfills. DownToEarthNW.com: DTE News stories Read more
Fun with USDA Food Atlas: Mapping Food Deserts, Food Insecurity, Local Food Access, and More
- April 1, 2014
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The Food Desert mapping tool at the USDA has received a lot of attention lately, but I'm more impressed with the USDA Food Atlas that offers a whole variety of ways to map America's food landscape. Here are some screen grabs of my Read more
Top food trends to look for in 2012
- March 21, 2014
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The James Beard Foundation has up a list of trends for the coming year from a chef's perspective. They include: New Nordic Pantry Chefs are hopping on the Noma-inspired New-Nordic-Cuisine train and are reaching for these ingredients: sea buckthorn (a tart Read more
Food Ingredients: Can You Identify What They Are? Can You Even Pronounce Them?
- February 11, 2014
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As a longtime The Daily Green blogger, on the occasion of the publication of my second book, The Conscious Kitchen, I’m using my “Ask An Organic Mom” space for the next 8 weeks – give or take – to invite Read more
Cutting food waste
- January 31, 2014
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The amount of food waste we generate each year is incredible. It’s not only an environmental issue, but a humanitarian and financial one. Pick up some food waste reduction tips and save a stack of money! Green living tips Read more
Stuffed and Starved – Visualizing World Food Consumption
- January 26, 2014
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A friend passed along this interesting visualization of the world's calorie consumption. Below is a screen grab showing the U.S. leading the pack in calories consumed. It's interesting to see that the whole western world appears to be eating too many Read more
Cook Your Food, Not Your Kitchen
- January 7, 2014
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When it’s hot, save energy, and feel more comfortable, with these six simple suggestions. thedailygreen.com article feed Read more
Good Friday/Earth Day: How the Food Movement is Making the Church Green
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In a fluke of this year's calendar, Earth Day and Good Friday both converge today. I wrote an article for CNN Belief Blog arguing that these two events aren't such a bad pairing. The wider context of the article is that Read more
A Royal Mistake: "Future of Food" Event Reinforces Food Movement's Elitist Stereotypes
- November 9, 2013
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By all appearances the Future of Food event organized by WashingtonPostLive was an all-star gala featuring some of my favorite writers and food-movement activists. I am a card-carrying member of the choir to whom the speakers of the conference Read more