Free Farmers, Food Liberty: Local Growers Declare Independence
Can real change take root in the aisles of a grocery store?
Food & Water
The right to cook
I want to suggest the creation of a new human right. That human right is the right to cook.
The Energy Cost of Local Food
Years back a pair of planners, Branden Born and Mark Purcell, warned that there’s nothing about smaller scale enterprises that make them inherently more efficient than their larger counterparts. With respect to on-farm energy intensity, they’re certainly right.
It’s all about the soil!
Though the local food movement continues to make strides, there’s still a long way to go.
If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots?
In the early twentieth century, fireless cookers were common additions to western kitchens, similar to the refrigerator or cooking stove.
Teach a Country to Fish…
…we send fully a third of American-caught fish abroad, even as we import 91 percent of the seafood we eat.
Resisting water privatisation under austerity
Despite explicit opposition from hundreds of thousands of European citizens, the sovereign debt crisis has given new momentum to the privatisation of water services in many European countries.
Turning Fuel into Food
A common criticism I receive in my analyses of the energy intensity of food production is that I’m comparing input and output energies that, despite both being measured in calories, are not comparable. I think it worthwhile to explore this critique in greater detail.
Will Detroit’s Water be Privatized or Recognized as Commons?
When it comes to a person’s fundamental needs being met – nothing is more basic and human, than to share.
Mark Bittman says Phooey to Foodie
Mark Bittman’s latest column tried to reclaim the word “foodie” for something more than high-end eaters.
Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands
Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the city’s move to shut off the water of thousands of residents.
Peaceful Grounds
Monday morning a group of gardeners from the neighborhood had a private tour of Peaceful Grounds, Linda Proffitt’s endeavor at Marion County Fairgrounds, where the county fair is going on.
