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- Civil Eats
- Eat Local Challenge Blog
- Eat Well Guide
- Eating Alabama
- Ecocentric: A Blog About Food, Water, and Energy
- Fairhope Local Food Production Initiative
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- FoodRoutes
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- National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Organic Consumer Association
- Pick Your Own (Mobile Area)
- Politics of the Plate by Barry Estabrook
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Category Archives: environmental issues
The Food and Climate Connection
From the Slow Food blog comes a link to a new online film from WHY Hunger called The Food and Climate Connection. [It] highlights the impact of today’s global food system on the climate and how a community-based food movement around the world is bringing to life a way of farming and eating that’s better [...]
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Hands Across the Sand: Saturday, June 26
WHAT: Peaceful protest against offshore drilling and in favor of clean energy. WHEN: Saturday, June 26 from 11am – 12:15pm WHERE: Beaches in your area, including Gulf Shores, Dauphin Island, and Pensacola Beach Hands Across the Sand is an international protest against offshore drilling and supporting clean energy. It was organized months before the Deepwater [...]
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Seafood Testing Could Last for Decades
I’m not a reader of USA Today, but today this headline caught my eye: Seafood testing from Gulf oil disaster could last decades. Oil is hard to get rid of; it can stay in the environment for an extremely long time, and because all parts of the food chain will be affected, the potential cumulative [...]
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Earth Day Actions
My suggestions from past Earth Day’s remain relevant today, and in my family we’re still trying to improve on many of these. Here are my lists from 2009 and 2008. While it’s not glamorous or fun, the fact remains that improving the energy efficiency of your home is one of the best ways to reduce [...]
Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom on Climate Change and Working Together
Since I’m an Indiana University alumna, I receive their publications, and I enjoyed this piece, an interview with IU Professor and Nobel laureate in Economics Elinor Ostrom. In it she discusses climate change and the ability of the average person to make a difference.
The Future of the Front Lawn
I found this on the Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s web site. It’s a post from the Backyard Wisdom blog by Margaret Lawrence about a lecture delivered at Auburn University recently by Fritz Haeg, an artist and designer responsible for the Edible Estates project. She links to an interview she did with him. ACES also has [...]
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Gulf Oil Spill: How You Can Help
2/18/10: The Volunteer Field Observer Online Training Portal is now up and running. Inside this portal you will be able to find out more information about the Volunteer Field Observer program, complete the necessary release forms, and go through the entire safety and procedural trainings all from the comfort of your own home. The training [...]
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Athletic Shoe Recycling
Did you know – I didn’t – that you can recycle your old athletic shoes at the Nike Factory Store in Foley at the Tanger Outlet Center? It’s part of their worldwide program that turns old shoes into athletic surfaces. Athletic shoes only; no flip-flops, dress shoes, cleats, etc.
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