This from the City of Lawrence:Common Ground is an urban agriculture and community gardening program of the City of Lawrence and Douglas CountyApplications due: Friday, December 16, 2011The City of Lawrence and Douglas County are seeking applications for an Urban Agriculture/Community Garden land use program (Common Ground). This Request for Applications (RFA) is intended to assist...
Pachamama's and Films For Action present a film screening of The Vanishing of the Bees, with the director of the film coming to speak before and after. Free State beer will also be on tap. Doors open at 6. Film starts at 7.
Environs and Films For Action present a film screening of King Corn, with guest speaker Simran Sethi and co-director Curt Ellis.
Dirt! The Movie is an insightful and timely film that tells the story of the glorious and unappreciated material beneath our feet. Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, Dirt! The Movie takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to. Dirt! The Movie...
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. This well-researched documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia, the widow of the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, takes an in-depth look at the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly...
I was recently driving past a public high school during its lunch break when I witnessed a troubling sight. A hungry horde of teens was streaming out the doors of the school and looking for a place to eat. A quick glance about the area revealed their limited options: a McDonald’s across the street or a Taco Bell a block further away. If those two options didn’t appeal, there was always the local...
Burt’s Bees lip balm was originally sold at independently owned health food stores. But more recently, Burt's Bees products have appeared everywhere -- in grocery stores, drug stores, and big-box stores like Target and Wal-Mart. That’s because Burt's Bees is now owned by Clorox, a massive corporation that has historically cared very little about the environment.Many of the products you may trust...
It’s not the milk mustache, but high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is being promoted in a series of advertisements to dutifully inform the public that the cost-effective sugar substitute isn’t the bad guy we all made it out to be. These ads urge us to visit a website full of “facts” and testimonies from professionals disputing attacks on the chemically processed fructose/glucose construct. The site...
Cedar Valley Iowa's "Buy Fresh/Buy Local" program has helped raise its local farm sales approximately 900% over the last ten years. The Northern Iowa Food and Farm Partnership discusses its plans to capture more of the local food dollar.
Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims...
Midge Grinstead of the Lawrence Humane Society has made a formal request to the city to END the raising of chickens within city limits of Lawrence, KS, ostensibly because of Zoonotic diseases (e.g. Avian Flu) that transmit from animals to humans. Unfortunately, this matter falls on two sides of the sustainability issue. In response to Peak Oil and climate change, the emerging relocalization...
The price of one of those venti frou-frou caramel abortion lattes you can get at the neighborhood beanery equals about 10 days worth of wages for an Ethiopian toiling in the Addis Ababa coffee trade. In our junkie’s pursuit to ride the brown serpent, the 2-billion-cups-a-day coffee habit of the global community is borne on the backs of farmers and packagers in developing countries.
As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.
Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but "edible foodlike substances." His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of 2006's ten best books by the New York Times and the Washington Post. His latest book is called In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.
We are fed up with the garbage we eat! The mouths are angry. The mouths are demanding real food-orgainc food- NOW! The Mouth revolution Begins! Viva la mouthalucion!
Growing demand for meat has become a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening humanity's future, maintains the World Watch Institute, Washington, D.C. Total meat consumption has increased fivefold in the past half-century, putting extreme pressure on Earth's limited resources, including water, land, feed, and fuel.
Beware the dark side, organic farmers. The corporate Sith Lords and their armies of GMO mutations threaten all food on earth. They are developing a new super weapon, capable of infecting entire species of foods and causing mass die-offs. Darth Tater calls it... the terminator seed, otherwise known as... the Death Melon! Forewarned... young Cuke Skywalker. Forewarned...
After watching a lot of really amazing educational documentaries, and absorbing the reflection that comes from the film's main points, I've noticed how easy it can be afterwards to agree with the film on an intellectual level but miss thinking and seeing how that can apply to your day-to-day living. You miss how these larger abstract ideas can apply to your personal life, at the physical...