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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Climate change ideas for On Day One Day three of the UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration continues today with a discussion of the top user-rated idea on On Day One: 'Eat the View,' by Roger Doiron. This idea was so popular, it even found its way into The New York Times. Here's what he suggests: Announce plans for a food garden on the White House lawn, making one of the White House's eight gardeners responsible for it, with part of produce going to the White House kitchen ...
Topics: climate, food, gardening, local food, politics, White House (all these topics)

Bottoms up: Pollan on gardening Growing your own food is fine, but governmental action is needed, and soon	Maywa Montenegro	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I like Michael Pollan -- really, I do -- which is why it was frustrating to see his wilted-salad-green entreaty to act on climate change in yesterday's paper: The climate-change crisis is at its very bottom a crisis of lifestyle -- of character, even. The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us (consumer spending represents 70 percent of our economy), and most of the rest of them made in ...
Topics: climate change mitigation, food, local food, politics, climate, gardening (all these topics)

How does your garden grow? A bright trend for dark times: kitchen gardening	Tom Philpott	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Last week, we ran a guest post about a topic dear to my heart: serious home vegetable gardening. In that piece, Bill Duesing argued that the USDA should take home food production seriously, by providing research and extension services to gardeners. Now Anne Raver, the veteran New York Times garden writer, has come out with a great column on what's looking like a nascent revival in home veggie gardening. The venerable Raver describes the pleasure of tending one's l ...
Topics: food, gardening, local food, politics (all these topics)

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