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Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 17:37:07 PM PDT
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- Farmers' markets in Oregon have been affected by the Bush Depression...in a good way. Record crowds have been counted at markets here in Portland this year, and purchases are up over 20 percent from last year. Also, people on food assistance have spent almost 3 times as much at some markets as compared to last year, and markets are receiving many more vendor booth applications than they have space for.
- David Suzuki and SeaChoice have teamed up with a regional chain of supermarkets, who will no longer carry yellowfin tuna, Chilean sea bass, orange roughy and other non-sustainable seafood at their 117 locations throughout British Columbia and Alberta, Canada.
- Should the Washington Farmers Market Association allow nuts from around the world to be sold at farmers' market booths? One local hazelnut grower thinks not.
- "They've survived ice ages, asteroids colliding. They've seen the dinosaurs come and go. And now they're going extinct in unprecedented numbers." - that's Kerry Kriger, founder of Save the Frogs. They may have met their match in us. Native amphibians in Oregon are disappearing at an alarming rate.
- The (Vancouver / Victoria, BC) Tyee takes a look at the ongoing battle between two rival forestry certification non profits who certify eco-friendly wood products - the industry-created "Sustainable Forestry Initiative", and the "Forest Stewardship Council", a group formed by environmental activists.
- Nevin Cohen takes a look at New York City's recently unveiled "Food Retail Expansion to Support Health" (FRESH) plan to bring more supermarkets into low-income sections of the South Bronx, Upper Manhattan, Central Brooklyn, and Downtown Jamaica (Queens).
- Big Ag's gonna hate this! Food, Inc. was the top-grossing independent film at the box office this weekend, finishing ahead of even Francis Ford Coppola's (director of the Godfather trilogy) new film. Reviews of the film can be found here from Jill and from me. See it!
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| JayinPortland :: Sampler Platter 06.14.09 |
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