by Claire Bailey | Dec 21, 2013 | Blog, Environment, Slow Food
How does food get from the soil to our plate, and how does the path it travels affect our health? In this video, Michael Pollan sheds light on a simple way we can choose foods that are better for our environment and our bodies. cb...
by Claire Bailey | Dec 15, 2013 | Blog, Environment, Slow Food
Permaculture is a design approach for creating self-sustaining systems that support the health of people, the environment, and communities. It can be used to model gardens, agricultural systems, buildings, and other human environments after natural ecosystems. An...
by Jim Bailey | Feb 20, 2012 | Blog, Health Care
When Peter Orzag, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget suggested that $700 billion in waste could be trimmed from the U.S. healthcare budget, many people thought he was nuts. But a report from Thomson-Reuters identifies specific...
by Jim Bailey | Jul 11, 2011 | Blog
According to a recent article in BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14070090) Americans are falling behind other countries in life expectancy. In this article the BBC reports on recent research by Dr. Ali Mokdad at the University of Washington. The...
by Jim Bailey | Jun 7, 2011 | Blog, Environment
In this amazing video 11-year-old Birke Baehr talks about what industrial farms are really like. He presents a fresh point of view about why we need green and sustainable food production.