Year after year of the same turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce can be tiresome. This Thanksgiving why not try out something new using only local ingredients found within a 100-mile radius of your home. Bahar Zakar, winner of the 2006 100-Mile Challenge created this stunning three-courser:...
Once upon a time they were known as HTH's - HomeTown Honeys. This was the acronym ascribed to those undergrad, freshman dorm-dwellers who had had The Conversation with their high school sweetheart and decided that they were going to stick together, the thick and thin thing, even though they were now 1200 miles apart, in separate colleges, and would be for (at least) 4 more years.
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So eating local and the 100-mile diet sounds good to you, but you're a college kid on a meal-plan. You don't get to choose your food any more than you got to choose that night-owl roomate of yours. Well help is on the way thanks to the Real Food Challenge.
Bread – Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Slow Food Nation is a celebration of food in America, taking place in San Francisco over the Labor Day weekend. It is "the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food movement and introduce thousands of people to food that is good, clean and fair."
Greenspeak
Some of the words that were introduced in the 11th edition of the Chambers dictionary have green origins. BBC News reports:
"'Electrosmog' refers to the electromagnetic fields emitted by computers and mobile phones, 'eco-village' is a term used for small ecologically-sustainable communities and 'carbon footprint' is the measure of the impact human activities on the environment." ...
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