5 Facts That Will Make You Lay Off the Bottle(d Water) – for Good
Are you a bottled water addict? Admitting you have a problem is the first step in curing an addiction. It’s time we all take a look at this complicated relationship we have with…
Carrotmobbing
As the old saying goes, there are two ways to make a donkey walk forward: offer a delicious carrot in front of it, or hit its behind with a stick. Bad behavior should…
Who wants a garden at City Hall?
Public Gardens seem to be on everyone’s mind since Michelle Obama planted her organic garden at The White House. The idea, however, may not have been hers. TheWhoFarm (The White House Organic Farm…
Jamie’s Food Revolution
“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” I find it hard…
Slow Money: Sustainable Investing
The speed at which stock exchanges and money markets move these days is astonishing; trillions of dollars are zipping around the world each day, faster than any of us can truly fathom. The…
Good Gifts for the Holidays
The holidays are all about gathering with loved ones to enjoy a bountiful meal. Many of our most cherished memories evolve around food. But, we all tend to cook too much and a…
The NYC Food Charter – a City-wide Food Sustainability Plan
Problems associated with obesity have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and at such an alarming pace that the Surgeon General has urged communities to address the problems through a formal ‘call…
The Charter for Compassion
I have always believed that just being nice gets you places way better than sharp elbows and tongues do. Niceness has long been considered a quality too soft for our dog-eat-dog society, but…
Take action for 350
According to leading climate scientists such as James Hansen of NASA, 350 parts per million is considered to be the highest CO2 level the planet can safely sustain. The current levels are known…
What’s your Foodprint?
Globally, an estimated one-third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are from our food system and land use changes, which include GHGs emitted to grow, process, package, transport, store and dispose our food….
10:10 Wants You to Cut Your Emissions by 10% in 2010
We have all asked, or been asked to answer, that elusive question. “What can I do about climate change?” Although it’s easy to feel powerless beside large corporations and nations that seem hellbent…
Let’s Celebrate PARK(ing) Day
For one day, a few of those rectangular spaces marked in white, usually reserved for clunkers, were temporarily reclaimed for people. On September 18, as part of an annual event called PARK(ing) Day,…
November 18, 2015
Mrs. Kimberly Leonard — Dear Harmless Harvest,
Where do I begin? It's hard to choose the correct words to say THANK YOU! You...
September 1, 2015
Kelly Sims — Gwen,
I live in Durham and I see it all the time, sometimes on sale at Kroger and Harris Teeter.
Kelly...
