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Suburban Permaculture: Neighborhood Watch as the Key to Resilient Community? (Video)

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Peak Moment TV When Jan Spencer destroyed his suburban driveway, turning it upside down to create a water feature, and create room for a permaculture garden, it must have been hard to predict the chain reaction that would follow. Having now planted a (semi-successful) edible garden on his carport roof, established some serious rainwater harvesting infrastructure, and ripped out his laurel hedge in favor of a food forest, the man is moving on to create similar change in the rest of his neighborhood. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: A Quick and Healthy Vegan Pizza

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It used to be that having a pizza meant using toppings that included tomato sauce, pepperoni smothered in lots of mozzerella cheese. Somewhere along the line we realized that you can actually put pretty much anything you like on top of a pizza and people have been making vegetarian pizzas for a long time. So forget about the meats and cheese and make a vegan pizza. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In New York, the Hester Street Fair Lures Locals with Fresh Produce, Cupcakes, Vintage Prada, and More (Event)

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A vibrant flea market in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Image courtesy of Hester Street Fair There’s something for everyone at the Hester Street Fair , whether you’re a thrifter, local foodie, antique hunter, or otherwise. The only outdoor vendor fair in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, founded by SuChin Pak and Ron Castellano, houses up to 60 local vendors every weekend. This weekend, in addition to the bevy of vintage accessories, clothing, and shoes the vibrant fle… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In Defense of "Eco" Fast Food

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A pretty scathing critique of “eco-restaurants” recently ran in Newseek. Called Your Carbon Foodprint , the article honed in on the now-fully formed trend of eateries capitalizing on environmentally conscious values to appeal to a growing market — and, it charges, doing little but greenwashing in the process. The focus is on the vegetarian fast food chain Otarian , which is predictably assaulted it for committing a number of hypocrisies: Its owners don’t liv… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Eyes On: Overcoming the BP Disaster and Others Like It

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via: Komo News. Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. I recently got an email about a “life architect,” Nick Kolesnikoff and his book Your Turn: Empower Yourself to Change . The email offered tips on overcoming disasters like the BP oil spill, a few of which I thought were worth repeating. Here are five tips from … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Good Talks to Jonathan Safran Foer About the Great Food Fight

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Good There are countless reasons to avoid eating meat and, since the publication of his book Eating Animals , Jonathan Safran Foer has been a popular advocate of a meat-free lifestyle. Good sat down with the author to talk about going vegetarian…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Forced to Cut Back, One Die-Hard Bacon Lover Learns to See the Merit in a Bit of Moderation

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by lisatozzi via Flickr. In my social group of foreigners living in Istanbul , the high price of pork products — unpopular eats in a predominantly Muslim country — is a constant lament. But in the countries we hail from, according to the creators of a hard-hitting recent documentary, bacon , sau… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Water Reporting Requirements Have California Farmers On Edge

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via benketero California is simultaneously in a water crunch and one of the nation’s most important food sources. California is the world’s fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities, and in 2007, California exported more agricultural products by air than 23 other states did by all modes of transport. That says a lot for how important farming is to the state, and we all know how important water is to farming. That brings us to the incredibly political and tumultuous issue of water rights and regulations within the state. In order to address a rising water … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Staple Food Prices to Rise Up to 45% Over Next Decade, UN FAO Warns

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Rice field in Japan, photo: mrhayata via flickr. The new Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019 report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has been released, warning that the price for many staple food products are projected to rise between 15-45%, adjusted for inflation. Balancing that is the projection that global food production over the next decade will be able to expand to keep pace with growing human population. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How to Grow an Edible School Garden

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Good Planting, tending, and harvesting a garden teaches young students the value of the soil, the delicacy of plants, and the joy a few hours of dirty work can bring. It can also help supplement those woefully unbalanced school lunches everyone has been talking about . In this vein, Good offers a quick guide to starting an edible school garden…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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