FASHION: Today, it’s possible to design clean fashion with ethical objectives. FRANCE 24 meets new designers promoting sustainable glamour, including a young jeweller who uses ethically-extracted gold from northwestern Colombia.
Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. Family farmers are making a comeback - growing much healthier food and lots more food per acre while using less water and energy than factory farms. visit www.goodfoodthemovie.org and for copies - www.bullfrogfilms.com
Joel Salatin has more than a few ideas about how food can be grown abundantly without harm. His Polyface Farms is the very definition of carrying capacity. He’s a good example of why, in this post-AnnaNicole world, all my heros are writers, scientists and farmers.
View this video & we’ll donate to homeless pets. (Up to 0000, limit per person, per video through 12/10/10). See how Purina ONE® beyOnd™ is trying to make a positive difference through small steps, such as using solar energy at one of its plants to help offset its total energy consumption.
Is a product more than its ingredients? View this video & we’ll donate to homeless pets. (Up to 0000, limit per person, per video through 12/10/10). See how Purina ONE® beyOnd™ is trying to make a positive difference by using environmentally friendly pet food packaging.
www.anandavillage.org Permaculture is a system to help people live in greater harmony with the wisdom of nature. A “Food Forest” is an orchard and garden combined into a biodiverse, forest-mimicking, multi-layered, symbiotic mix of edible and medicinal plants. By design, it maximizes the productive use of light, water, and soil nutrients. Ananda is a worldwide group of individuals who share the search for higher consciousness and the ideal of service to others. We express this service by offering uplifting values and techniques for achieving peace of mind and inner happiness. Ananda, which means “joy” in Sanskrit, was fo unded to support others in their quest for spiritual growth.
I saw this film a couple of weeks ago at my local film festival and was VERY impressed with the cinematography, in depth look at chemical use and factory intensive farming and business practices. Go robertkennerfilms.com to see where this film will be shown and which film festivals to patronize. Thanks to Jeff Figearo ( /user/jfhealthyandfit ) for bringing this clip to my attention. Entertainment Weekly: “Food, Inc. is a movie that’s hard to shake, because days after you’ve seen it, you will find yourself eating something — a hamburger, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen hothouse tomato — and realize that you have virtually no idea what it really is.” Dr. Mercola: “Food, Inc. is a horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry. Robert Kenner’s documentary does for the supermarket what “Jaws” did for the beach. The film marches straight into the dark side of cutthroat agri-business, corporatized meat and the greedy manipulation of both genetics and the law.”
For more Stories, Food News, and Cooking Fresh videos, visit: cookingupastory.com As the pendulum has swung toward a globalized economy, more people are realizing the huge costs associated with the singular pursuit of maximizing profit, employing cheap labor, and ignoring environmental concerns. A shift is underway to promote sustainable local economies, in part, a necessary response to increased fuel costs, and global warming threats. Creating a local food economy means valuing the production of healthy foods, creating sustainable markets for farmers who produce the food, and livable wages for farm workers who toil in their fields. In part 1, Ken Meter, of Crossroads Resource Center, defines a strong food system, and why its so important. For more FOOD NEWS, visit us on our website cookingupastory.com
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) offers a holistic approach to the production of sustainable food grown in urban areas. In this story, we learn of one urban farmer who successfully uses the CSA model to produce long-term sustainable crops that are fresh, cost efficient to produce, environmentally friendly, and that offers local members a stake in the harvest crops. Recipes from the episode: Oven Roasted Tomatoes & Herbs; Spanish Eggplant Salad; and Caponata Pasta
This video can be downloaded here: www.ashdenawards.org ARTI won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2006. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog ashdenawards.blogspot.com The Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) in Pune has developed a biogas plant which uses food waste rather than manure as feedstock and supplies biogas for cooking. The plant is sufficiently compact to be used by urban households, and over 700 are currently in use. Pune is a relatively affluent city in south India, and many people use liquid petroleum gas (LPG) or kerosene for cooking. Waste food is often discarded at the side of the road, as in many cities, attracting stray dogs, flies and rats and creating a public health hazard. The ARTI compact biogas plant is made from two standard high-density polyethylene (HDPE) water tanks the larger tank acts as the digester and the smaller one is inverted and placed into it to serve as a gas-holder. The plant safely digests kitchen waste, food waste or waste flour from mills, thus reducing the problem of waste disposal. A 1000 litre plant produces sufficient biogas to at least halve the use of LPG or kerosene for cooking in a household, as well as a small amount of liquid effluent which can be used as fertiliser. ARTI has developed the technology, field tested it, and managed the supply of about 700 biogas plants in Maharashtra. Around 100 plants are now being installed every month. The first-prize Ashden …
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