archive for March, 2008

Digest - Blogs: Wal-Mart wants your input, standing up for local

by @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

Big-boxing match: Wal-Mart Senior Director of Sustainability Rand Waddroup just finished reading “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and wants to know what kinds of sustainable food products people would like to see on their shelves.

… Whole Foods, whole compost : One of the coolest business relationships we’ve heard of in a while — a waste-recycling arrangement between a local farmer and Whole Foods.

Not a future we’re looking forward to …

by @ Saturday, March 1st, 2008.

The back page of this month’s Wired has a disconcerting "Artifact from the Future" photo-illustration. However, given a choice between this and Doreen the Downer cow, we might go with "vat-grown Kobe" too (click for larger view):

Pollan painting #4: The golden arches

by @ Saturday, March 1st, 2008.

The latest in a series of interpretive paintings done by 5-year-old Frederick, inspired by his mother’s reading "The Omnivore’s Dilemma" and summarizing it for him. (See #1, Children of the corn | #2: Chicken Little at Magic Mountain | #3: Sequoia National Pork)
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