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Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last
Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing |
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12 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing Have you ever felt chafed by the inconvenience of having to go one place for your bulk bulgur wheat and another for your Guatemalan organic cotton poncho? Well we've got good news: From here on in you can point your Lexus SUV in one direction only, to organic grocer Whole Foods. The retailer is ... |
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| Topics: business, food and agriculture, green living, United States (all these topics) |
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Good Label Manners
Not all 'eco-labels' are created equal |
Matthew L. Miller |
16 Mar 2004 |
Soapbox |
| Not all "eco-labels" are created equal By Matthew L. Miller 16 Mar 2004 "What's in a name?" asks Shakespeare. Conscientious food consumers are beginning to realize that the answer too often is, "Not much." Eggsellent. Shoppers increasingly are willing to pay more for food produced in a way that protects human health, water, wildlife, rural communities, and farm workers. And this is not lost on marketers. Many grocery packages today include "e ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, green living, United States (all these topics) |
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Unsafe at Any Seed?
A new consumer revolution could change the way we label food |
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30 Oct 2003 |
The Gist |
| There's a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign going on in New York City right now regarding smoking in public places. The ads feature slogans like, "If they ban smoking in airports, people will never fly again," and "If they ban smoking in bathrooms, people will never gossip again." I thought of this campaign when I stumbled across a Reuters article on Tuesday describing opposition to a new l ... |
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| Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Free-Range at Last, Free-Range at Last
Is cheap meat worth the karmic cost of industrial animal production? |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
20 Nov 2000 |
Soapbox |
| With Thanksgiving nigh, the question arises: What is the meaning of sustainable cuisine? Which came first? Kennedy with both a chicken and an egg. The word sustainable expresses the obligation that each generation has to the next to preserve the value of the natural world. It does not mean we can't use nature. Humankind, a predatory animal, is part of ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Forty
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Josh Sevin |
12 Jan 2000 |
Counter Culture |
| percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ... |
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| Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics) |
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