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Artists explore urban sustainability at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
"Gatherers — Fallen Fruit, Elysian Park," 2005, giclee print, photo courtesy of David Burns, Matias Viegener & Austin Young (downloaded from YBCA's press room) A new exhibition of artists' responses to the concept
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Celebrating food independence: A review of “Depletion and Abundance”
OK, quick check: everyone who is concerned about the economic crisis turning into a depression and causing food and fuel prices to rise and pockets to empty — whether for yourself, your parents, your children,
A fair look at agriculture
Different folks have different ways of knowing when the summer is drawing to a close here in Ohio. Some swear by the increased volume of the crickets' chorus, others don't believe that summer is officially over until first
The eat is on: A virtual Victory Garden potluck
If you've strolled through your local farmers market lately, you've noticed that for most of us around the continent, we're seeing the peak of harvest season. Farmers pile their tables high with intensely red tomatoes,
Rebuilding itself, New Orleans is reconstructing food community
The following post is by Stu Shafer, a professor of sociology at Johnson County Community College in Kansas and a farmer-member of the Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance, whose newsletter this post first appeared in. He
Getting a handle on sustainability: It’s the ecosystem (stupid)
Caption: Monterey Bay Aquarium visitors watch a small bluefin tuna (center). If world overfishing of this top predator doesn't slow soon, aquariums may be the only places to see one. The word "sustainability" came up
West Michigan’s small-scale alternative food systems — and the future of such endeavors
Even though Grand Rapids is a mid-size city, it does have a small-town feel — once you’ve been here a while you start to realize everybody pretty much knows everybody else. When I first moved here and asked people who I should talk to about the food system, I heard two names over and over: Tom Cary
Rock bottom of the food chain: Children in the fields
Prepare yourself for Food and Society Conference overload — Elanor and I are here in Chandler, AZ, at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's annual food-movement meeting and thanks
A capital creamery: DC’s Dolcezza spins local flavors into artisanal gelato
Please welcome guest contributor and frequent Ethicurean commenter Emily Horton. Emily writes about food, culture and sustainability issues in Washington, D.C., where she's lived since last September. Before that, she lived in Atlanta and Chapel Hill, N.C., where she lost her accent for the first time
Announcing the Bay Area’s newest meat CSA: the Clark Summit Farm Meat Club!
In September 2006 I complained to then-San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carol Ness that there were plenty of veggie Community Supported Agriculture programs in the Bay Area, but none that would give you a selection of chicken, beef, pork, and eggs every month. She quoted
Meeting my meat at Garden of Eden/Lionette’s Market in Boston
Johanna Kolodny is dedicated to working to change the food system at multiple levels. She has worked with the NYC Greenmarket and Slow Food, and taught undergraduate courses about the food system. A graduate of Williams College, she received her MA in Food Studies from New York University. On a frigid
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Sometimes you just have to go for a walk
How do I know I've been neglecting the Ethicurean? My mother sent me an email yesterday titled "Now I'm Worried" — not because I hadn't replied to her last three messages, but because I hadn't posted on the blog in ages. Since a few other people have wondered whether I've fallen under a bus, or been
Please welcome Ali, and check out the Ethicurean on Facebook
We're very pleased to announce that guest contributor Ali Benjamin has accepted our invitation to don an Ethicurean apron. Ali's a busy bee on the Internets, writing her own blog, The Cleaner Plate Club, as well as contributing to
Severine and “The Greenhorns”: Sowing the seeds of revolution
Have you ever encountered an idealistic young person with such presence that you thought, Whoa — this one might actually succeed in changing the world!? That's the way I felt, anyway, on meeting Severine von Tscharner Fleming a few years ago, back when I was working for UC Berkeley and she was
An “Unsettling” look at industrial agriculture
The flaws of industrial agriculture and the current backlash against it came into sharp focus a couple of weeks ago, following the death of former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, well-known for his exhortations to
