archive for the 'Sustainability' Category

No-go fish: A review of “Bottomfeeder” by Taras Grescoe

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008.

Taras Grescoe says he wrote “Bottomfeeder” (Bloomsbury USA, May 2008) for a somewhat selfish reason: he wanted to taste the world’s great seafood dishes — like bouillabaisse in Marseilles, fish and chips in England, bluefin tuna sashimi in Tokyo — before they disappeared or were dramatically changed by our plundering of the oceans. Whatever his motivation, Grescoe has given us a fascinating book that I hope will inform many about the dire state of the oceans, expose the dreadful environmental consequences of badly managed aquaculture, and prompt us to make better seafood choices.

Digest - Features: Pollan preaches it, NYT Mag’s Eat Green, Londoners growing food

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 21st, 2008.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to raising grassfed beef to food preservation.

Digest - Blogs: DC compost, OJ explored, Lappe tries to save the small planet

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 21st, 2008.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Bay Area event: A discussion of climate-friendly eating

by Bonnie P. @ Sunday, March 30th, 2008.

Tomorrow night (Monday, March 31) I’m moderating a discussion about making environmentally conscious food choices, sponsored by CUESA. It’s a pretty great panel — all women, incidentally:

Helene York, Director of Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation and Project Director of the company’s Low Carbon Diet program
Gail Feenstra, Food Systems Analyst at the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research […]

Food-health-agriculture connections noted at SARE conference

by Janet @ Wednesday, March 26th, 2008.

There was plenty of positive energy and discussion of the food and agriculture connection yesterday at the opening of the three-day Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program’s 20th anniversary conference, held this year in Kansas City, Missouri. More than 800 people were expected to attend, and even more that had been interested but planners […]

Smells like a free ride: EPA wants to let CAFOs off on emissions reporting

by Elanor @ Tuesday, March 25th, 2008.

In an excellent 2000 report titled "The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs," researcher Marlene Halverson of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy recounts the following stories:
On July 26, 1989, five farm workers in one family died after consecutively entering a 10-foot deep liquid manure pit on their Michigan farm….. The […]

Digest - Commentary: Fixing the eco*nomy, the whack-a-mole Averys

by Ethicurean @ Monday, March 24th, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - News: Apple-moth exposé, payment limit moving forward, food crisis

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 9th, 2008.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

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

by Ethicurean @ 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.

Digest - Features: Hairy mulch, green cafeterias, cattlemen’s predictions

by Ethicurean @ Monday, December 24th, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - Features: Why NAIS is a bad idea, BBC goes nuts for sustainable, Obama feints

by Ethicurean @ Friday, December 21st, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Spray it forward: Pesticide residues in U.S. food

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, December 20th, 2007.

The USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service has released its annual summary for its Pesticide Data Program. And it scares me.

O, Christmas tree

by Janet @ Thursday, December 20th, 2007.

Not exactly a food topic, but if you’re still deliberating about a Christmas tree (real tree? artificial tree? no tree? see what Grist’s Umbra had to say), here are two ideas that are easier than buying a live one that you have to try to plant somewhere:
My choice, an idea borrowed from a friend: a […]

Digest - Commentary: Pollan on “sustainability,” more locavore perspectives

by Ethicurean @ Monday, December 17th, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Commentary & Blogs: NYT discovers eating local isn’t always green, Alex Avery pretends feedlot beef is

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, December 9th, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

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