Ask Pablo: Is A Freezer Chest The Environmentally Friendly Choice?
Image Source: Jonny Hunter
Dear Pablo: I grow plenty of vegetables in the summer but can’t in the winter. In addition to preserving what I can in canning jars, I am thinking about getting a freezer chest to store my vegetables into the winter. I am concerned about the energy use and am wondering if it is better or worse for the environment than buying vegetables that are shipped from far away.
There are so many rewards in producing and preserving your own foods, and e…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Organic Tourism Guide: How to Eat Well On the Road
Organic farmer’s market in Australia. Photo by avlxyz via Flickr
Wondering how to green your summer vacation? Seeking healthy places to stay, eat, and visit? Here’s a one-stop guide to green smoke-free hotels that don’t use toxic cleaning products, and organic eateries from restaurants and delis to groceries serving organic foods, location of local farmers markets, and even pesticide-free parks. No more excuses while on the road to resort to a <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Best of Green: Food and Health (Slideshow)
Of all the environmental issues to think about — and there a lot of them — questions concerning food and health are common to us all. We’ve all got to eat, and do so every day, and so questions of how we manage the environment and how the environment affects human health affect all humankind. How we will feed the world’s burgeoning population? Which farmers are pushing beyond organic? Can corporate growth and products that are healthy for people and the environment ever meet in a happy place? Nothing, it seems, is so systematically and emotionally complicated as agriculture and health — because it’s not just abou…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Hester Street Fair to Bring Local Shopping to Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Image credit: Hester Street Market/Craigslist
An empty lot in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is slowly being transformed into a vibrant flea market. Founded by SuChin Pak and Ron Castellano, the Hester Street Fair will house up to 60 local vendors offering everything from food and produce to clothes and crafts.
When it opens on April 24 and 25, it w…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Locavorism The Great Leap Forward?
Damon Darlin in the New York Times says he thinks in the midst of this cold and snowy East Coast winter it is time to question the viability of the locavore movement and those “so-called locavores who think they are part of a national trend.” Darlin compares the practice of searching out local food to Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s industrial plan calld the Great Leap Forward in the 1950’s. Locavorism, Darlin posits, just isn’t practical, and he implies, neither is it credible.
(Poster of girl with human-sized melons is a Chinese …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Fun Infographic Helps You Eat Locally and Shop Seasonally
Image credit: Good
Good does a lot of things well, but one area in which it excels is creating fun and useful infographics.
Their latest, an interactive map of local food by season and region across the United States, is no exception….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Wintermarket Wonderland at the Seaport
Fine and Raw’s chocolate elves at the New Amsterdam WinterMarket photo credit: Bonnie Hulkower
Hundreds of people weathered the blizzard last Sunday to support New Amsterdam’s Wintermarket in lower Manhattan. The New Amsterdam Market is not your typical market. Its goal is to promote local agriculture and support a community of purveyors, who practice environmentally and socially responsible food production. Housed in the footprint of the historic Fulton Fish Market, the New Amsterdam Market creates the aura of a returning to a slower paced life. The New Amsterdam Market is in the sam…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Pesticide Scare Drives Organic Purchases in Lebanon
A produce market in Sidon, Lebanon. Photo by lux & pixel via Flickr.
A lack of food-safety laws in Lebanon has created a pesticide scare that may drive more consumers to seek out organic produce. Locally grown fruits and vegetables, including grapes, strawberries, potatoes, and apples, have been shown to have up to 25 times more pesticides than internationally …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Stonyfield Saves Its Mascot Cow From Getting the Axe
Out with the old, In with the New. Old and new Stonyfield organic yogurt cups. Image via: Stonyfield
Stonyfield Farms (now known as just Stonyfield) recently underwent an internal transformation of sorts. Thanks in part to the movie Food Inc, t…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Terra Madre Day: Celebrating 20 Years of Slow Food Excellence
photo: J. Novak
Slow Food is the organization that first brought me to sustainable eating. It showed me how to enjoy the experience of eating the best in local foods. I learned that often times local foods are easier on the planet than organic if they are grown sustainably and that my diet was one of the best tools in my plight to reduce my carbon footprint. December 10 marks the first annual Terra Madre Day celebration. …Read the full story on TreeHugger