The 100-Mile Diet
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Food, Consumerism, Good For You | Leave a Comment
The 100-mile diet, based on a US and Canadian book, is the story of truly eating locally for one year. According to 100milediet.org, “when the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it ‘the SUV diet.’” The creators figure that a “100-mile radius is large enough […]
Read More..>>DIYers Reviving Innovation
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Techie, Consumerism, DIY | 3 Comments
I love the idea of being able to build and fix things all by myself. Knowing the difference between the tools I inherited from my father, and knowing when to use them is something I want to learn.
In high school about 15 years ago (yikes!), I was placed in a shop class for 4th period […]
The Meat Machine Dissected
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Mother Nature, Food, Consumerism | 1 Comment
In my quest to only consume meat as the occasional palate treat, I found Mark Bittman’s article in today’s New York Times, Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler, an excellent “state of the union” on where meat production stands in the United States and abroad.
In an oil-to-meat comparison, Bittman explains that the environment is taking a huge hit […]
The Starbucks Reverse Jinx
Posted on December 28, 2007 - Filed Under Food, Consumerism, Finance | Leave a Comment
This delightful coinage taken from an article on Slate describes how the looming coffee monster we call Starbucks is actually helping improve coffee sales for local shops. There is this assumption that our communities were overflowing with locally run coffee shops until the dreaded Starbucks moved in plucking their customers one by one away from […]
Read More..>>TreeHugger’s Interview with Spurlock on WWJB
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Consumerism | Leave a Comment
Earlier this year I posted an article about an upcoming film entitled, “What Would Jesus Buy?” about Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Choir. One of my favorites sites, TreeHugger, had the opportunity to talk with the producer Morgan Spurlock about the film in an interview worth reading. Morgan discusses the message of the film […]
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