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Greener Curry
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23 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: California, education, food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Bananarama
Price tags don't tell the full story |
Elizabeth Sawin |
11 Mar 2002 |
Global Citizen |
| I have a young friend who, I think, will never eat another banana without thinking a great deal about its history. Going bananas. On a trip to Belize, Hannah and other home-schooled teenagers saw monkeys, the rainforest, and Mayan villages. But the memory that seems to stand out most vividly is of a banana plantation. The workers at the plantation Hannah visited do not wear protective clothing. When planes fly overhea ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (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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Food for Thought
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Donella H. Meadows |
13 Mar 2000 |
Global Citizen |
| The strangest news items about organic food have been popping up. It isn't good for you after all. It's full of bacteria and insect parts. You folks who pay a high price for it are not only suckers, you're risking your health. Toxic tomato? Not if it's organic. ABC's John Stossel recently interviewed Dennis Avery, "a leading critic of organic produce," who said organic foods are grown with (oh no, tell me it's not true!) manure. As we ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (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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