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Sat Apr 25, 2009 at 16:30:00 PM PDT
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- From The Ethicurean, a great piece on community-food partnerships in downtowns throughout Ohio.
- A North Carolina-based group, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, is gathering a list and seeking to save from extinction heritage chicken breeds, 19 of which are already listed as "critically threatened" (fewer than 500 left in the world). This quote really makes you think -
Since the arrival of industrialized agriculture, more than 95 percent of vegetables that had been grown in the world have disappeared, according to the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture.
- I gotta go on one of these! Local Portland foraging expert John Kallas is doing especially well with his wild food tours these days...
- Whither the days of syrup-drenched styrofoam-containered pre-sliced peaches in hospitals? More and more U.S. hospitals are taking the common sense measure of serving patients more fresh, healthy whole foods.
- At Civil Eats, Nina Fallenbaum writes about her experiences participating in a recent sustainable agriculture-experience program in Japan; and Jerusha Klemperer reviews the new book "Righteous Porkchop".
- From The Nation, a piece on increasing racial diversity in the environmental movement reminds us of this important point -
For decades ordinary citizens of color have become environmental activists when they organized to resist the siting of toxic waste dumps in their neighborhoods, to force regulation of polluting industries in fence-line communities, and to bring attention to the negative health impact of particulate emissions near their homes. But these largely decentralized, locally led movements were rarely understood as central to the conservation and climate change environmentalism that dominated federal policy and the national imagination. So despite their efforts, the contributions of black, brown, and poor communities have often been ignored in the story of a greening America.
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