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Hipster Farmers Work For Food

Working the fields at Tantre Farm In much of North America, our small towns are depopulated and all of the young people leave for the cities. The average age of farmers is about 52 and only about two percent of North Americans are farmers. But this may be changing; Christine Muhlke reports in the New York Times that the hottest internship going is on the farm. She visits Tantre Farms in Michigan and finds it full of yo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Blake Lively on Set of the Day

I just decided that girl ass on handrails is my new porn…the girl doesn’t have to be hot, relevant or interesting, she just needs to be squeezed up against something many people run their hands all over everyday…it’s more exciting than when I had a toilet seat fetish a bunch of years ago…then there was the used cutlery in the food court fetish that was also a little disgusting in retrospect…but this one…this one won’t get me diseases…it’s just gonna take a lot of effort to scope it out…unless Blake Lively keeps bringing the goods…which she should…cuz now she’s got purpose….even though I’ve fallen into her shitty little trap thanks to nothing interesting going on in the industry, with no new blood and all the old blood is tainted with disease, forcing me to choose this…It’s a right place, right time situation… Now that that is out of my system….here are some other pictures of her…

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Monster Vegetables Harvested in the UK

Image from Daily Mail There must be something in the air, or the soil, but monster vegetables keep popping up in Great (!) Britain. First we have potatoes, the world’s biggest potato to be precise. It weighs a whopping 8lbs 4oz, that’s 9oz more than the previous record holder. The amateur gardener who grew it thinks that it bear s a strong resemb… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Dancing Shrimp’ Off The Menu At Sacramento Sushi Restaurant

photo via flickr Ever eaten live shrimp? Me neither, and I don’t want to. But while some consider the dish a delicacy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals consider it cruel. That’s why PETA targeted a Sacramento restaurant that was serving “dancing shrimp,” which is shrimp with lemon juice squezzed onto their exposed flesh, creating pain…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Monbiot – "I Was Wrong About Veganism"

Image credit: spratmackerel A long time ago, George Monbiot argued that the “only ethical response” to the sharp rise in meat eating around the world was to go vegan. He clearly changed his mind a while back though, instead making the case that we should reserve meat eating for special occasions . While he’s still an advocate of greatly reduced meat consumption, his latest article seems to be a lot more positive about even a moderate diet of well-raised animal proteins. So what’s got him to change his… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Stylish Watt-Lite Creates An Energy Use Infographic in Real Time (Photos)

All images via the Interactive Institute – www.tii.se “A regular torch shows what is hidden in the dark, the Watt-Lite shows the hidden use of electricity”, this is the essential purpose of a set of three lights created by designers at Stolkholm’s Interactive Institute . The Watt-Lite is a rather inventive form of smart meter that finds a straightforward way of demonstrating how much energy a building is using in the style of real … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Andrew Maynard’s Airdrop House: Just Add Water

Cameron Sinclair of Architecture For Humanity always says that the last thing people need after a disaster is another architect’s idea for instant housing, but that hasn’t stopped TreeHugger Best of Green Young Architect Andrew Maynard from looking at the problem of the flooding in Pakistan and writing: Many would suggest, correctly, that what a disaster of this magnitude DOES NOT need is another idealistic architect proposing yet… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could Perennial Fodder Crops Mean More Sustainable Livestock?

Image credit: Permaculture Research Institute TreeHugger has featured an awesome tour of a permaculture allotment , permaculture-inspired disaster relief in Haiti , and even greening the desert in Jordan . Yet while permaculture—which very simply put is the art of designing gardens and farms that mimic natural ecosystems—… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Local’ Cream Travels 340 Miles to End on its Own Doorstep

Image credit: Roddas From the very beginning, TreeHugger has been a huge advocate for local food . Ever since Time Magazine declared that local food was going mainstream back in 2007, there’s been a steady stream of retailers and restaurateurs getting in on the locavore bandwagon . Heck, we even have

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Harold Dieterle and Meredith Lynn Davies wedding photo

The couple Harold Dieterle and Meredith Lynn Davies, who met at the Food Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo., which was part of the prize package for Dieterle#39;s Top Chef victory, treated guests to a fox trot to Ray Lamontagne#39;s “You Are the Best Thing” for their first dance. Congratulations – or should we say bon appétit? – to 2006 Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle, who tied the knot with fellow foodie and longtime girlfriend Meredith Lynn Davies Saturday. In traditional Southern style, the pair

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