“It’s been a long time since farmers congregated in downtown Manhattan — around 350 years, to be exact. The folks who populate Wall Street and rural America don’t cross paths much these days. It’s easy to forget that Wall Street used to be rural America; in 1644, the area contained so many cows that the Dutch [...]
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Reducing your carbon footprint is do-able; it’s about making changes in how you live your day-to-day life. Even small changes, like reducing the amount of driving you do, can make a huge impact in the environment. Yogi Times polled experts of all ages in the field of green living and sustainability to bring you some tips [...]
“In a move that will in effect ban a chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) from being used in baby bottles and toddler cups manufactured or sold in California, a bill known as the Toxin-Free Infants and Toddlers Act (AB 1319) was signed into law Tuesday night by Governor Jerry Brown. A number of Oakland-based parents’ [...]
CONTACT: SAEGERMEDIAGROUP, Inc. Katy Saeger katy@saegermediagroup.com 310.935.3883 SAN FRANCISCO – The nation’s premier green living event returns to San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center November 12-13, 2011. This year, Green Festival celebrates a ten-year milestone with over one million attendees in eight cities. This unique experience celebrates positive solutions working in our communities. It’s where people [...]
Growing Movement Pairs Family Farms and Food Businesses With New Investment Media Contact: Joan Simon Full Plate Restaurant Consulting jsimon@fullplateconsulting.com San Francisco –The Slow Money movement, cited by Entrepreneur.com as “one of the top five trends in finance in 2011” is coming to San Francisco this fall; bringing with it small food business entrepreneurs from [...]
“For the past ten years, the Green Festival has been an annual or bi-annual event in San Francisco. The Green Festival has also taken place elsewhere across the country, with Chicago, Seattle, and Washington D.C. to name a few locations. Now, for the first time in its decade of existence, the Green Festival is coming [...]
“With all due respect, Nina Federoff’s New York Times op-ed reads like it was written two decades ago, when the jury was still out about the potential of the biotech industry to reduce hunger, increase nutritional quality in foods, and decrease agriculture’s reliance on toxic chemicals and other expensive inputs that most of the world’s farmers can’t [...]
The nation’s largest green living event comes to Los Angeles Convention Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Georgia Malki Denise Hamler Phone: 828-333-9403 x 125 202-872-5303 Georgia@sevenstarevents.com denisehamler@greenamerica.org LOS ANGELES – The nation’s premier green living event comes to Los Angeles October 29-30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This year, Green Festival celebrates a ten [...]
“On Tuesday, May 24th, 2011, Family Life Academy Charter School (FLACS), celebrated one year of a major change in the way their food is prepared and how students are fed. This little school of just approximately 368 students, situated within the poorest congressional district in the USA, took it upon itself to do something special [...]
The Deal With $8 Eggs
Aug 11
“Over on the Atlantic site, the food politics writer Jane Black has a thoughtful post on farmers market sticker shock in brownstone Brooklyn. Confronted at her neigborhood market by the spectacle of $8/dozen eggs—which had sold out, no less—Black frets that “that the ‘good-food-costs-more’ argument is being taken to an extreme that puts at risk the goal [...]
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