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Slow Money 
Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 17:35:03 PM PDT
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- Marion Nestle takes on 'better' junk food marketing efforts, and also brings us a recap of her recent trip to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Michigan farm families are having success in going farm-to-door, as more and more Michiganders are eating closer to home.
- School Lunch Talk brings us some info on fast food in schools, and other statistics from America's cafeterias.
- A group of Lane County, Oregon residents seeking to create a pesticide buffer zone around their homes to protect their farms and families from aerial spraying of nearby commercial forest land by helicopters, are gaining traction with their county commissioners.
- Over 100 farmers, entrepeneurs and investors at a "slow money" conference in Madison, Wisconsin today discussed how to finance and rebuild local food systems and infrastructure.
- According to researchers, 90 percent of television food advertisements aimed at American children are for junk foods. That number is also the same in Germany, while the "lowest" percentage of the 11 countries studied was 50% in Britain and Australia.
- The City of Seattle is making it easier for residents to turn parking strips into gardens.
- Hamburgers are for imperialists, comrade! North Korea's first fast food restaurant serves "minced beef and bread", instead.
- An "etiquette" question - is it rude to take pictures of your food in a restaurant? I've done it a few times myself, but I snap my shots quick and low, and preferably when nobody else is around.
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Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 06:00:00 AM PDT
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Several months ago I received a copy of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered. Then my brother died. I didn't read the book. Recently, I picked it back up and... it's great!
I can't call this a book review because I haven't read most of the book even. But I can say that I have started reading it and I like it a lot.
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