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Ensia – A New E-Magazine for Pleasurable Perusing
I first stumbled over Ensia when it was literally just being established, bookmarked it, and inevitably forgot about it for a couple of months. As I was doing some housekeeping in my overflowing...
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Can “Big Food” Replace Tradition? A Brazilian Testimonial
I just discovered a new website called, short and simple, Resilience.org, which has really great and well-researched stories as well as resources and groups that help build community resilience. Over...
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Incredible Edible – An Incredible Story
Incredible Edible is an amazing idea that transformed an entire British town. In Todmorden, upon the initiative of two energetic women, the community is coming together and connecting with each other,...
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A Certain Feeling in Your Guts…
I’m back! Sorry for the unexpectedly long hiatus – I needed some real unplugged time off after exams, moving, class, exams, and moving again. But now I am here in Sweden for my second year of the...
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The Life and Death of the Danish Fat Tax
After it was mentioned in one of my classes, I started wondering… what exactly happened to the much-heralded tax on goods high in saturated fats that Denmark installed at the beginning of 2012? This...
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What If Food Were A Common Good? – A Thought Experiment
Who “owns” food? Who should own it? And why do we never ask these questions in the first place? Close your eyes for a moment and wipe every notion of “it’s this way because it has always been this way”...
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Advice from the Past
This little seed catalog has a message for you… … that rings as true today as it did in 1918. Somebody that took it to heart: the former president of Trader Joe’s, who is about to open a store called...
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An Apple A Day Is Worth $11 Trillion? An Economist’s Concern about the Union...
Ok, first watch this video: What’s your first reaction? “Wow, that’s quite a good investment. Just increasing fruit and veg consumption would save $11 trillion? Let’s fund fruit and vegetable growers!”...
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“Science ≠ Production, and Production ≠ Food Security”– A Message to the...
You guys. This is one of these speeches where I just want to yell “hear, hear!” after every single sentence – and it is all the more remarkable where Dr. M Jahi Chappell, the director of agroecology...
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Could You Live With $10 Less Grocery Money?
I’m assuming the answer is yes. Which might be why the cut in food stamp benefits in the US – between $11 per month for a one-headed household and $36 for a four-headed one – that came into effect on...
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For A (Climate-) Healthy 2014
How are your holidays going, everybody? I hope you spent a wonderful Christmas season and are still in the delicious between-Christmas-and-New-Year limbo that doesn’t require you to do anything...
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“Les 2 Vaches” Shows You Where Your Yoghurt Really Comes From
When we talk about sustainable supply chains and the need for transparency in the entire production process of a product, oftentimes it’s argued that such detailed information is impossible to provide...
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