Wild Eats, Resilient Farms, and Freedom From Money: 3 Holiday Reads for the Radical Homemaker
Every year, my favorite gift to give (and to get) is a good book.
Food & Water
El Descenso Energético
En los más de quince años desde que comencé a dar cursos en permacultura y eco-diseño, me he dado cuenta que lo que más convence no son las palabras sino el ejemplo.
Alternatives and Resistance to Policies that Generate Hunger: Seeds and Peasant Autonomy
Agricultural biodiversity is the result of a thousand years of interaction between nature and the communities which produce the food that the human race needs for its survival.
How different would the world be if we paid the True Cost of food and farming?
What would our food system look like if the impacts of production on the environment and on public health were taken into account? At present the polluter doesn’t pay, and those producing food sustainably are not rewarded for positive outcomes.
Tokyo Honey: A Role for Urban Bees
A small organization in the Ginza district of Tokyo has taken a different approach to beekeeping, amassing a large group of volunteers and supporters.
Foodshed as New Democracy
As the local food movement, or…local food movements have taken root in the U.S. during recent years, advocates have discovered the need to express this evolving “locus focus” in new ways.
9 Urban Food Policies for Strong Local Food Systems
In a sharing economy, individuals look less to big chain stores to meet their food needs, and look more to each other.
The Surprising Healing Qualities … of Dirt
But it might be the soil where our food is grown, rather than the food itself, that offers us the real medicine.
Why Grassfed Is Best
“Eat less red meat” is the most frequent response I hear at conferences when a distraught member of the audience asks a presenter “What’s the one thing I can do for the planet?” What the presenter should have said is “Eat less feedlot meat.” A lot less, in fact.
How Big Food Creates an Illusion of Choice at the Supermarket
A new analysis shows that the top four or fewer food companies control a substantial majority of the sales of each item, and they often offer multiple brands in each type of grocery, giving consumers the false impression they are choosing among competing products.
Food Waste in Japan: How Eco-towns and Recycling Loops are Encouraging Self-Sufficiency
Japan’s Food Recycling Law was enacted in 2001 and revised in 2007 in order to promote the reutilization of food resources.
Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community
Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it.
