Sandor Ellix Katz could be called a god, a guru, and a great teacher, but he’s so modest he’d never admit to anything other than being a fermentation fetishist. What Sandor wants you to know, though, is that fermentation is at the heart of human consumption. Consider the simple observation that many common and delicious
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It’s been a great week for sustainable innovation. That’s because the TEDGlobal 2009 conference took place this week in Oxford, England. TED stands for “technology, entertainment, and design,” but the TED conferences encompass much more than those words might suggest. Since 1990, TED has been bringing together groundbreaking speakers from the worlds of science, art,
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Imagine the opportunity to spend a weekend with three of the most enlightened thinkers of our time.
Imagine that the time was organized with talks, sessions, and multiple opportunities to awaken your full potential and embrace the world’s problems and joys.
Imagine being in Boulder, Colorado in August for this amazing experience.
If you can picture something wonderful
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Celebrities have the power to make the entire world stop, look and listen. Sifting through the pages of magazines, we take guilty peeks into their lives and absorb their fashion sense, hairstyles, eating habits, and late-night haunts. Today, we will take a look at some of the eco-friendly lifestyle choices and products that some of
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We recently featured several options for eco-friendly hotels and accommodations; we’ve also spotlighted a number of green vacation destinations, including the Yelverton Brook Eco-Spa, the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel, breathtaking eco-island Melody Key, Fiji Island Resort, and LEED-certified Hotel Terra. Next year, the AAA TourBook will add an eco feature to make it easy to find the
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If you want to reduce your environmental impact, the kitchen is a great place to start. Whenever you cook a fresh meal for yourself and your family, you have many different opportunities to shrink your carbon footprint. For example, cooking from scratch allows you to choose more vegetable-based meals, use organic ingredients, and plan menus
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Getting ready to do a fabulous new look in your sitting room, kitchen or the whole house? Fashion conscious homes are important to many, but often times, designers are more about the ‘new’ things they can bring in rather than the things they can recycle.
One eco-designer, Kelly LaPlante, is all about taking used items and
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Well, maybe not that easy. Slow living, ironically, takes some work in this fast-paced, consume-it-in-a- minute culture. To adopt a slow ethic means to use less resources, savoring the ones we need more fully, and embracing the opportunity to do more with less. It’s possible to change our orientation, but most of us still spend
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Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection, by chef Jessica Prentice, is a different kind of local food book. Based on the lunar cycles of the year, each chapter focuses on the celebratory foods traditionally associated with each month of the year.
For example, according to the book, we have the sap moon in
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The Edible Schoolyard has been one of the most visible sustainable food projects of our time. Surprisingly controversial — Is it really elitist to feed good food to public school children? — there is no denying that Alice Waters’ Delicious Revolution is made manifest in Berkeley’s educational system. As models go, it has its proponents
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