The ‘Victory Garden’ idea is getting a lot of play these days. We’ve already noticed appeals for us to ‘eat-like-there’s-a-war-on.’
Now the UK Independent is excited by the same idea — hooking its version of the story on a new exhibit, ‘Dig for Victory: War on Waste,‘ at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms.
Posts Tagged ‘food’
- more of us are plowing up our lawns
Posted in food, gardening, tagged farming, food, gardening, micro-farming, super-micro farming on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“This year, 39 percent of people with backyards told the Garden Writers Association they planned to grow vegetables,” the Christian Science Monitor tells us.
Recent spikes in gas and food prices this spring are turning many in the USA to home-food production, it seems.
We welcome that, of course. We’ve been excited about the whole ‘eat [...]
- obese people worsen global warming!
Posted in economics, energy, food, tagged food, global warming, obesity, the lancet on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It stands to reason that larger people eat more than smaller ones, which means that it takes more agricultural production — a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions — to feed them, too.
Basic physics also tells us that it takes more energy to move larger people around in planes, trains or automobiles. And unless [...]
- are high prices for industrial food a good thing?
Posted in economics, food, policy, tagged food, Michael Pollan, organic food on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago we noted that high prices for industrially-produced food might be a good thing if you wanted people to buy more organics. Even the New York Times came to the same conclusion.
But not so fast, says Tom Philpott over at Grist.org.
Philpott worries that, as supermarket prices for conventional goods rise, people [...]
- confused this Earth Day?
Posted in environmentalism, policy, political action, tagged consumer culture, corporations, eco-anxiety, energy, food, global warming, health, pollution, resources, water on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What, exactly, is the world coming to? How worried, precisely, should we be about the state of our climate, our energy system, our food supplies, our water, the air we breath? What really is — or might soon — be the problem with any of these?
It’s hard to keep track and easy to [...]
- corn prices soar. Hurray!
Posted in food, tagged corn, ethanol, food, Michael Pollan on April 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s a slightly perverse argument but we’re not the only ones to be making the connection between the recent rise in US corn prices and the good that might do us all.
As followers of Michael Pollan know well, major subsidies to US corn producers have made processed foods containing high fructose corn syrup much cheaper [...]
