Let’s redo lunch!
Portland Press Herald - 12/9/2011. By Avery Yale Kamila – Windham: School lunch often gets a bad rap, but at Windham Primary School on Thursday, 650 students queued up in the cafeteria to buy the day's hot lunch, 150 more than on an average day. The lunch rush was the result of a guest chef program that brought in Erin Dow, a Maine chef who is part of first lady Michelle Obama's Chefs Move to Schools program. |
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Aroostook farmer the face of organic growers’ fight against Monsanto
Bangor Daily News - 12/8/2011. By Kathryn Olmstead – I have wanted to catch up with Bridgewater organic farmer Jim Gerritsen ever since he was named in October to the 2011 list of 25 visionaries who are changing the world by the national magazine Utne Reader. When I finally succeeded last weekend, he was on his way to New York City to give a speech and participate in the Dec. 4 rally and “Farmers’ March” to Zuccotti Park organized by the Food Justice Committee of the Occupy Wall Street movement. |
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The brutal logic of climate change mitigation
Grist - 12/8/2011. By David Roberts – In my last post, I discussed a new peer-reviewed paper by climate scientists Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows. It paints a grim picture: 1. The commonly accepted threshold of climate "safety," 2 degrees C [3.6 degrees F] temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, is now properly considered extremely dangerous … Like I said, go ahead and pour yourself a stiff drink. |
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Cereal offenders: how do we get the sugar out of breakfast?
Grist - 12/7/2011. By Tom Laskawy – Raise your hand if you serve your kids a bowl of Twinkies for breakfast. Or perhaps they prefer a few cookies instead? According to the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) new report on children's cereals, that's effectively what millions of kids are eating in the morning. |
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