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In San Diego, fertile ground for the seeds of understanding
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15.1.2010 |
LA Times: Most Emailed |
| In San Diego, fertile ground for the seeds of understanding |
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[flenvcenter :: Refugees]
[flenvcenter :: Non-Motorized Recreation]
[flenvcenter :: Gardens]
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Remembering the Factory Pig Farm Origins of the Swine Flu
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15.1.2010 |
Organic Consumers Association News Headlines |
| This past November people from all over Mexico gathered in the Valley of Perote, where the village of La Gloria is located, for the fifth Asamblea Nacional de Afectados Ambientales [National Assembly of Environmentally Affected]. It is a large, periodical gathering of a network of communities and organisations struggling against environmental devastation in Mexico. Click here to read this article |
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[flenvcenter :: Infectious Disease]
[flenvcenter :: Industrial Agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Food Sovereignty]
[flenvcenter :: Global Food System]
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Working, living in the suburbs -- and needing help from a food shelf
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15.1.2010 |
MinnPost |
| Working, living in the suburbs -- and needing help from a food shelf
Photo by Jill Hiebert/Hunger Solutions Minnesota Volunteer Linda Sipprell unpacks a case of canned tomatoes at the ICA Food Shelf in Minnetonka.
By Cynthia Boyd | Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
A growing number of Minnesotans — many from middle-class backgrounds — fear going to bed hungry and are turning to emergency food shelves. Here's one example of a family living in St. Louis Park. ... |
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[demo :: Homeless]
[demo :: Housing]
[demo :: Homeless]
[flenvcenter :: Conscious Eating]
[flenvcenter :: Hunger]
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Meet your makers
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15.1.2010 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| In Austin, Texas Cathy Wu is making jewelry out of dried fruit. In London, Ontario Brian Frank is educating himself in digital media. John Hammel. In St. Jacob's, Ontario, owns the last handmade corn broom plant in Canada. In the U.S. Rustbelt ordinary citizens are dropping by a community college to use laser cutters and 3D printers . And, in homes all over the world, people are connecting to the Internet to discover galaxies or unfold the secrets of Alzheimer's and Parkison's Disease.
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[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[flenvcenter :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Campus]
[flenvcenter :: Campus]
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In San Diego, fertile ground for the seeds of understanding
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15.1.2010 |
LA Times: Environment |
| In San Diego, fertile ground for the seeds of understanding |
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[flenvcenter :: Refugees]
[flenvcenter :: Non-Motorized Recreation]
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Full Circle Farm expands grocery home-delivery service area
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15.1.2010 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| Full Circle becomes part of a still-evolving market divided between the very large (Safeway.com and Amazon Fresh) and the very local (New Roots Organics, Terra Organics and Nature's Last Stand). |
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[flenvcenter :: Stores]
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Minnesota food product recall expanded
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15.1.2010 |
Post-Bulletin: Local News |
| ST. PAUL -- A Minnesota food company its expanding its voluntary nationwide recall |
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Slow Burn
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14.1.2010 |
GOOD |
| Woody Tasch says we need to put the brakes on our investment portfolios. Don’t worry, though: He still has a way for us to make money. ... |
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[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Slow Food]
[flenvcenter :: Conscious Eating]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Green Purchasing]
[flenvcenter :: Socially-Responsible Investing]
[flenvcenter :: Local Economies]
[flenvcenter :: Slow Food]
[flenvcenter :: Conscious Eating]
[flenvcenter :: Sustainable Agriculture]
[flenvcenter :: Socially-Responsible Investing]
[flenvcenter :: Green Purchasing]
[flenvcenter :: Local Economies]
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TONIGHT: Lucid Food Book Release Party to Benefit Just Food!
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14.1.2010 |
TreeHugger |
| TONIGHT: Lucid Food Book Release Party to Benefit Just Food! |
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[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
[flenvcenter :: Lifestyle and Psychology]
[flenvcenter :: Lifestyle and Psychology]
[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Environment]
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The Help That Haiti Needs
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14.1.2010 |
NYT: Home Page |
Given Haiti's political instability and lack of infrastructure, what kinds of aid should be sent and how?
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[flenvcenter :: Community Development]
[nwct :: Healthcare_US]
[demo :: All News]
[demo :: Unemployment]
[newstrust :: media coverage]
[newstrust :: federal government]
[newstrust :: gulf coast economy]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Food pantries finding pets need meals, too
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14.1.2010 |
Boston Globe: Massachusetts |
| Food pantries finding pets need meals, too |
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Local Chef Battles Iron Chef In Kitchen Stadium
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14.1.2010 |
WCCO: Local News |
| A Twin Cities chef is going for gold in a tough, national competition: "Iron Chef America." |
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Bill Boyne: No justification for further investment in ethanol
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13.1.2010 |
Post-Bulletin: Local Opinion |
| It's time to recognize that ethanol has no future. There are many reasons for that decision. The New York Times has reported that two studies published |
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[newstrust :: Greenhouse Gases]
[newstrust :: Forest]
[newstrust :: Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[flenvcenter :: Ethanol]
[flenvcenter :: Climate Change Science]
[newstrust :: Farm Bill]
[demo :: Climate change]
[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
[demo :: Forest]
[demo :: Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Green Power]
[newstrust :: Cars]
[newstrust :: Biofuel]
[newstrust :: Businesses]
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Community Food fills a need in Rochester
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13.1.2010 |
Post-Bulletin: Local Opinion |
| By Dick Rundle On most Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, at about 4:30, Jan gets in line outside the back door at Bethel Lutheran Church to receive free food from Community Food Response volunteers in the church basement food center. |
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Keff takes flight: Flying Fish moving to South Lake Union
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13.1.2010 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| In 1995, chef Chris Keff opened Flying Fish in what was then a burgeoning business district in the heart of Belltown. Fifteen years later she's flying out of there, setting her sights elsewhere and readying "The Fish" -- as we've come to know and love it -- for a big move to another up-and-coming neighborhood: South Lake Union. |
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Fresh start in Seward
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13.1.2010 |
Star Tribune: Local |
| The triple killing at market won't keep Faysal Warfa from carrying on his brother's dream. |
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[flenvcenter :: Nutrition]
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Looking Past the Facade of Italian City After Riots
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13.1.2010 |
NY Times: World |
| In Rosarno, where the worst immigrant rioting ever seen in Italy took place over the weekend, the economy is so weak that locals and immigrants are competitors. |
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Raj Patel on "The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy"
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12.1.2010 |
Democracy Now! |
| Author and activist Raj Patel joins us to discuss his new book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. "We've come to believe that the only way we can value things is by sticking them in a market," Patel says. "The trouble is, as we've seen through this recession, that markets are a tremendously bad way of valuing things, tremendously fickle." [includes rush transcript] |
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[flenvcenter :: Media]
[flenvcenter :: Four Corners Region]
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Raj Patel on "The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy"
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12.1.2010 |
Democracy Now! |
| Author and activist Raj Patel joins us to discuss his new book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. "We've come to believe that the only way we can value things is by sticking them in a market," Patel says. "The trouble is, as we've seen through this recession, that markets are a tremendously bad way of valuing things, tremendously fickle." [includes rush transcript] |
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[flenvcenter :: Media]
[flenvcenter :: Four Corners Region]
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Raj Patel on "The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy"
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12.1.2010 |
Democracy Now! |
| Author and activist Raj Patel joins us to discuss his new book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. "We've come to believe that the only way we can value things is by sticking them in a market," Patel says. "The trouble is, as we've seen through this recession, that markets are a tremendously bad way of valuing things, tremendously fickle." [includes rush transcript] |
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[flenvcenter :: Local Food Systems]
[flenvcenter :: Media]
[flenvcenter :: Four Corners Region]
[flenvcenter :: Four Corners Region]
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