Recent Posts Tagged With 'food'

• Mother Earth Intended Food to Be Eaten From the Vine

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 10:55 in food, gardening, food miles, carbon footrprint and food, eating from the vine

  Heirloom lettuce growing under a trellis. There is nothing like food which has literally been ripped right off the vine and stuffed into your mouth.  Just envision plucking a ripe tomato from the vine and enjoying the burst of flavor as you take you...

• Drink Organic Beer Responsibly

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 09:57 in holidays, food, st patricks day, organic beer, drinking and carbon footprint, drinking and the planet

  Think of wearing the “Green” on St Patrick’s Day or any day that is cause for celebration?  How about just for  kicking back watching March madness or your favorite football game?  Watch this Grist Video by Umbra, who provides yo...

• EWG’s Shopping List Limits Your Pesticide Exposure

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 01:25 in health, food, ewg, pesticides, pesticides and food

  Environmental Working Group (EWG) has updated their popular Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides with a list of fruits and vegetables which reduces a families’ exposure to pesticides.  Ordinarily, the EWG advocates that you buy organic; however...

• Verterra: The Dinnerware that Makes You Feel Good To Entertain

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 22:18 in food, household products, fair trade products, verterra, eco friendly products and magazine, giveaways & discounts, biodegradeable plates, compostable plates

  Classic Verterra bowls and plates. Check out Verterra giveaway! I love to entertain and believe in the motto, the more people, the better.However, my love of entertaining has always clashed with my environmental side since I had to use paper plates. ...

• You’ve Got Green Mail, January 18, 2009 Round-up

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 14:53 in science, environment, food, Alternative Energy, automobiles, energy efficient products, enviromental news, animals & nature

  Photo by Henry Heatly On this week’s You’ve Got Mail segment, I have included seven eclectic articles ranging from an amazing Solar-powered green slug to the USDA’s deregulation of an industrial genetically modified corn crop.  If ...

• Greening the Tomato Sauce Process

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 09:47 in food, organic food, household products, heirloom tomatoes, organic gardening, tomato sauce, creating tomato sauce without using much energy, greening tomato sauce, low impact & tomato sauce, tomato sauce & lower carbon footprint, using tomato press, using tomato stainer

  Something so basic, can be so green. I have always admired my dear friend Paul’s  homemade tomato sauce.   He is an amazing cook and one of the first ones I call if I don’t know how to prepare something.  He knows when I ask him to br...

• You’ve Got Green Mail, Dec 7, 2008 Round-Up

  Posted on Sunday December 7th, 2008 at 17:13 in food, automobiles, lighting, building materials, energy efficient products, green pest control, enviromental news, cfl and emf, cfl and radiation, fertility and genetically modified food, green burials and solar power, greenteam california

  Photo by Henry Heatly Here is another I’ve Got Green Mail for the week of December 7, 2008.  Just to make this concept interactive, please add any new reports or concepts that you found interesting in your own comments.  You can include one o...

• Organic Chocolates Never Tasted So Good

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 20:11 in gifts, food, dark chocolate, fair trade, organic chocolate, gifts for the holidays, cacao beans, berkshire bark, christopher michaels chocolates, nyc chocolate show, praulus chocolates, green and black chocolates

    Photo of Green and Black Dark Chocolate and Wine Collection  While I was at the New York Chocolate Show, I was feeling a lot like Charlie, the main character of the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as he toured the Wonka Chocolate Factory...

• Death by Organic Chocolate

  Posted on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 10:56 in gifts, food, dark chocolate, organic chocolate, gifts for the holidays, cacao beans, berkshire bark, christopher michaels chocolates, nyc chocolate show, organic cho, praulus chocolates, sendall chocolates

  What is the 8th wonder of the world?  Chocolate, no doubt.  At the 11th annual New York Chocolate Show, I was a pig in mud being around hundreds of some of best chocolate makers, all in the same room, giving out free samples of the best chocolate I...

• You’ve Got Green Mail

  Posted on Friday November 21st, 2008 at 11:12 in food, building materials, green news stories, green articles, enviromental news, environmental newstories, green building newstories, green depot, greenbuild 365, health news stories

  Photo by permission of CalivnB My husband is one of the most prolific readers. He receives dozens of newsletters on all health related subjects and forwards me interesting topics to write about.  I have to admit some of my best finds come through hi...

• How Important is Buying Fair Trade Items?

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 21:13 in food, fair trade, household products, fair trade products, home decor & accessories, how people feel about fair trade products, survey about fair trade products

  Photo by permission of Robert Whitlock Thaddeus Truitt, a senior at University of Oregon, recently contacted me about a survey that he is doing for his business administration class, “ Business Strategies and Planning”  taught by Profe...

• Turn the White House Lawn into an Edible Garden!

  Posted on Wednesday November 12th, 2008 at 12:31 in food, activism, gardening, food production, food miles, eat the view, eater in chief, president obama & food industry issues, roger doiron, turn the white house lawn into an edible garden!, white house lawn & edible

  This Lawn is Your Lawn from roger doiron on Vimeo. The other day, I received an message on my personal Facebook page from Michelle, aka the Green Bean of Green Phone Booth, with  a copy of a video by Roger Doiron urging our new President (Eater in C...