I get a weekly deliver of a fruit and vegetable basket from a local farm. I describe how i am going to use forever bags to store the produce. Do a search in your local area for the same service.
Do you have CSA in your area? Are you a subscriber? How much of your weekly food for meals is actually grown locally?
Gabe LeBlanc from EcoFactory.com tells us about the worldwide demonstration to raise awareness about the 390ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, but we can only support 350ppm safely. Go to 350.org for more info. Shot at Orlando Brewing.
Gabe bought 350 beers for the first 350 people to show up at 3:50pm in a demonstration he called a “carrotmob” or a “joycott”. I think it’s something like a flashmob, but with a very specific purpose. It was a lot of fun, and I was glad to be able to support a great cause.
Gabe LeBlanc of EcoFactory left me this message about the event being held on 10/24/09 to raise awareness about the level of Carbon in the air. More info can be found at http://350.org and http://ecofactory.com
Gabe is offering free beer to the first 350 people to arrive at Orlando Brewing at 3:50 PM on October 24th. Gabe is doing awesome stuff in our community, and I recommend everyone go and support him, or find a similar event in your area.
In the ground floor of an otherwise trendy (and empty) condominium building in College Park, there is a shining beam of local light called Harmoni Artisan Meal Market. They are known to host many local events, most recently was a Slow Food Pot-Luck Dinner.
We caught up with blogger/foodie/activist Rachel Weidinger, who also happens to be an expert preserver, at her Homegrown Village booth at MakerFaire 2009 in San Mateo, California. She showed us how to preserve fresh lemons with salt so they will last a year and taste delicious added to omelets, hummus, salads and pasta:
Special thanks to Homegrown.org and FarmAid for putting on this great event! You can fiind more tips from Rachel on her blog AKitchenOfHerOwn.com or follow her on Twitter @Rachelannyes.
Have you ever stressed yourself into being sick? I certainly have. My former co-host, Gina, is currently laid up with her mom and dad because she stresses herself out (and for lots of other medical reasons, but stress is a big factor). Apparently this is the start of a meme…
Chris Heuer, who I’ve seen speak at a local blogging conference a couple of times, posted this audio to a phone-blogging service called Utterz yesterday, and got a cool response. Here’s Chris on The Mind Body Connection:
Do you have any experiences with this phenomenon? Go over to Utterz and reply to Chris’ post. I know he’ll appreciate it.
I know I have not been keeping up with the blogging/podcasting over here at Shrink Your Ecological Footprint, but at the same time I don’t believe people should apologize for not blogging. Still, I think there are some really great resources out there for folks looking for inspiration to get themselves or others motivated to think about what is happening to ourselves and the world right now.
The Conscious Business Podcast is one of many shows published by some nice boys from Boulder at their Falling Fruit website. They are spiritual geeks, as well as often talking about philosophy and environmental issues. It’s difficult to describe exactly what they do, so instead I’d like you to sample some of their best work.
A few months ago, the guys (like the host who always introduces himself as “myself, Theo Horesh”) interviewed Joshua Onysko, Founder and CEO of Pangea Organics, an organic soap and bodycare company. Pangea is one of the epitomic example of a “conscious” business. Not only are they green, but they always pay their emplyees a fair wage and they have even opened up all of the inner workings of their business to the world for scrutiny. More on that in the podcasts though.
This video belongs to the InsterestingSouth event that was held in Sydney, Australia on November 22nd, 2007. There was a fun talk by Juan Mann, the Free Hugs guy, who was looking for a free place to live at the time, and some other talks by some wonderful creative and informed people.
The video I want to focus on is a talk give by Dan Hill, who is a design, web, media, city, travel, culture, architecture, music, creative type of fellow. He takes several ideas and mashes them up to make you think about a world where you measure your usage of resources, and the possible logical ends of those measurements. You really have to watch the video to get the meaning. Go on, click the link and come back, I’ll wait… It’s a little over 10 minutes, just to warn you.
They start playing “These boots are made for walking” because he’s passed his 10-minute time limit – each talk at InterestingSouth is between 3 and 10 minutes. The event is only one night, and doesn’t take very long, but I’m sure everyone walks away with a head full of new ideas, inspiration and questions.
I’m interested to see what people can think of once we collect 5 years worth of that data, or 25 years. After a century, the world will be in a completely different place. Who knows what our great grandchildren will have moved on to then?
I finally got to watch John Rife’s awesome locavore video, and I now feel very educated and inspired to explore and sample some of the places and foods he introduces us to in his first installment of A Local Folkus.
I’d like to post a lot of relevant links to go with this video, but that will take a little while. Check back soon for some more info.
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