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All the blogs are writing about a Harvard Business Review story by Andrew Winston, titled Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story ; even our Rachel picked it up with New Study: Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet.

There are are, however, a couple of problems; a) the study on which the article is old an…Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Sara Novak

You’ve likely heard about the latest salmonella scare. This time it revolves around eggs, 550 billion of them in all. Nearly 2,000 people in 17 states have already gotten sick as a result of the recent outbreak. Experts are saying that the outbreak is caused by rodents or tainted feed. But what exactly is salmonella and how does it get into our food, or in this instance, our eggs?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Buying food locally is a fast way to shed pounds…of carbon, anyway. By cutting down food miles, you’re cutting back on the embodied carbon in the food, as well as helping out local growers. But if you don’t have a farmers’ market nearby or can’t make it on a weekly basis, how else might you find locally grown food? Local Dirt wants to fill that information gap and point you in the right direction. However, does it stand out against some of the competing websites and smart phone apps providing the same service?…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Now that’s what I’m talking about! Only yesterday I was musing over how sustainability has to be more interesting than business as usual if we are going to get out of the mess we have created. So I was delighted to discover an article over at The Guardian about why saving the…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYC

TreeHugger has been dining on vertical farms since Mike first wrote about them back in 2005. We have not been entirely uncritical of them, even calling them Pie in the Sky.

Stan Cox and David Van Tassel go a lot further in an article published in Alternet. They write: “Although the concep…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Slugs culled from no-dig garden. Photo: Warren McLaren / inov8

Almost a full year ago we put up a post that detailed this writer’s experience in commencing a no-dig garden in his backyard in Australia. The story seemed to be of interest to a few people so we’ve collated a photographic catalog of the project’s successes and stumbles.

One year on, what has been harvested from this garden and what challenges were encountered? Maybe as spring thaws the yards of our northern hemisphere readers they too will start their own adventures …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Glocal from Jeff Heie on Vimeo.

This film is an inspiration for all those adve…Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Flavio Ferrrari via flickr.

The idea of trying to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet is almost yesterday’s news in the green community, as is talking about eating locally, minimizing food miles, reducing the amount of meat you eat. But a new report from Brighter Planet breaks the issue down in a very digestible way. While most of its conclusions are in…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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While I can see the appeal of vegan organic agriculture, I am a firm believer that integrating animals into a mixed sustainable food production system can be an efficient way to farm. One family farm in Sacramento Valley, California has been pioneering integrated farming systems for over one hundred years&m…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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When it comes to creating new healthy eco products, chewing gum isn’t the first thing that springs to mind or mouth. But if you are going to do it, just do it well. So welcome to the world of Peppersmith gum, a chewing gum made out of natural chicle and fine english peppermint.

There are no artificial flavours, colours or preservatives, and no aspartame and no petro-chemical bases in the gum. There are no sweeteners–they use wood sugar and mint grown in Hampshire. …Read the full story on TreeHugger