Comments JoeyDiana has made

  • We have a solar oven and it is the easiest summer cooking ever.  If you can make it in a crock pot, you can make it in a solar oven.  Food is ready when you get home and the house does not get hot for it AND you lower your environmental impacts with fuel that falls for free from the sky. Roasted or steamed veggies, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, casseroles, bread pudding, stews, rice...you get the idea.  We have one that has 2 pots-one for the grains and one for the main dish. Tonight, for example is chili over rice, with a side of the corn fritters from this article-thanks!

    On Beat the August heat with an easy veggie supper posted 3 months ago 4 Responses

  • "A massive market for organics, local, sustainable now exists - so its disingenuous to say there is a food system problem. "

    This is not true everywhere!  Even going to my hometown just 40 minutes East of our lovely and abundant Ithaca NY, means taking our own food if we want to eat well.  Ventures into the local grocery stores reveal the long arm of the industrial ag market, where not a single piece of local, organic food can be found. 

    On A debate about soil, organics, and nutrition posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago 24 Responses

  • Mobile Solar Powered Sound Stage

    check out: http://www.nativeearthlingband.com/solarstage.html On 15 Green Musicians and Bands posted 2 years, 5 months ago 29 Responses

  • Well put

    I have lived in France and Sweden in areas where the infrastructure is definitely more geared towards mixed use transportation.  People of all ages biked to school, work, play on amazingly well maintained and lit bike/walking paths.  
    (one of my first culture difference awakenings was seeing women bicycling in dresses and high heels and then joining the ranks)  Those wacky Swedes ;).On People-powered transit makes you happy posted 2 years, 6 months ago 17 Responses

  • I wonder

    These 2 are very inspirational. I am curious to know if they looked beyond cultivated produce/food.  There is a veritable bounty of native/wild edible perennial foods everywhere in natural ecosystems.  And you can re-create these types of ecosystems in your own space following the ideas of agroforestry and some good guide books.  
    Still reminiscing on the delights of a colt's foot saute.
    On Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chew the fat on their 100-mile diet posted 2 years, 7 months ago 13 Responses

  • Happy Earth Day!

    Hello from Ithaca, where we just had our biggest Earth Day to date-over 2000 people, nearly 60 exhibitors and so on.  Yes I am bragging but I would really like to inspire you hardworking activists to take a new approach. First of all, you spend the whole year on a soap box, how about a day of celebration and reflection of what has changed or worked.  When I read the comment about it being a chance to proselytize to the sympathetic, my first thought was-that's why I don't go to church.  Who wants to constantly be preached to and criticized for not doing enough?  I have been in this movement for over 16 years and yes, I know the sh*t is hitting the fan but as the quote goes, "If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution."On It's descended completely into 'small steps' posted 2 years, 7 months ago 37 Responses

  • Please put those panels on buildings

    and help mitigate habitat disruption.  On What's Produced Here Stays Here posted 2 years, 7 months ago 2 Responses

  • Plastic row covers

    This is a question for Tom Philpott too:
    I have had a question for a while about the possible leaching from plastic row covers used in farming.  They use black plastic sheets directly on the ground at our CSA and I am curious to know more about them.On Umbra on oil and plastic posted 2 years, 8 months ago 4 Responses

  • BPA

    What else is this in?  Yogurt containers? Bread wrappers. Organic farm row covers?  This really has me concerned.On The Knights Who Say NIH posted 2 years, 8 months ago 1 Response

  • Cookbooks-the gateway drug

    Upon discovering my cholesterol was 280 at the age of 21, I bought the (controversial) book "Fit for Life."  What an eye-opener. Controversial or not, the Diamonds take you back to fresh food cooking.  Many of my health problems, besides the horrifying cholesterol count, went away as I learned to eat better.  Shortly after that I was given the Moosewood cookbook and I was on my way to official health food nut. Which led to me being seen as an environmentalist so things like Greenpeace catalogs were thrown my way. Turns out I was a greenie; and so I bought my first canvas grocery bag and worked to become a better steward of the planet.  This led me to even further waking up to the many connections between our health, the environment and the industrialized, processed world we live in.  The rest is history.
    (and my cholesterol is 140 :)On How a cookbook renaissance heated up the sustainable-food movement posted 2 years, 9 months ago 18 Responses

  • Be Entrepeneurial and Go get'em!

    A different approach may be needed. Instead of sending a resume saying this is what I have done, send a proposal with what you can/will do.  For example if there is an company, organization, school, etc. that you want to work for; try to find out as much as you can about them and where they could be greener.  Write up a summary of your findings, how your expertize could "fix" their situation, how it could add value to the entity and then send it.  
    Signed,
    One who also hopes to have a green job soon.On I thought the green job market was hot! posted 2 years, 9 months ago 31 Responses

  • Cool dude

    Now if we wanted to get involved or volunteer-is there is a way to do that?
    Thanks!On Gore to announce climate-change concerts around the world posted 2 years, 9 months ago 1 Response

  • hippie

    highly intelligent person pursuing infinite enlightenmentOn Wherein I finally get it all out posted 2 years, 10 months ago 22 Responses

  • Risky Business

    Thank you for this eye opening article.  I come from a farming family but was never part of the "big" decisions.  Recently after the passing of several of the large shareholders, talk of selling began.  It breaks my heart to think of it and have asked if we could try to put together a group of other family members to try to buy out the others. Hence I have been researching different farming models.  I was curious if the loss (24.8%)you quoted included food provided to the family from the farm.  On Thoughts from a small farm during the midwinter lull posted 2 years, 10 months ago 9 Responses