Celebrating Green Across the Red, White and Blue SAN FRANCISCO -- Your Environmental Road Trip YERT, an all-American eco-documentary project, completed its year-long odyssey on July 4, 2008. After exploring all 50 states in only 52 weeks, the YERT team has collected over 400 hours...
Rod Dreher is the author of Crunchy Cons--the book and the Beliefnet blog--and an editorialist for the Dallas Morning News. On TAC's behalf, he recently interviewed Michael Pollan, the best-selling author of The Ominivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Pollan's work, like Dreher's, is about more than just eating...
This coming Labor Day weekend, San Francisco will be host to the first of its kind multifaceted four-day extravaganza of events and attractions to feed, interact with and entertain tens of thousands of attendees, educating all about a return to whole and healthy food. There will be street foods, special...
In 1991, I was halfway through graduate school when I started watching Meet the Press. I was completing a master's degree in public administration and intended to run for Cleveland City Council in 1993. During the next 17 years, I never missed a show ("A void on Sunday...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-9 June 2008-Study Finds Organic Milk From Pasture-Fed Cows to be Higher in Beneficial NutrientsC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Cows that graze on fresh pasture produce milk with higher levels of antioxidants and beneficial fatty acids, such as conjugated linoleic acid and...
Joel Salatin is a self-proclaimed "Christian-conservative-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic" and the proprietor of Polyface Farms in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he practices the kind of small-scale agriculture that baffles and sometimes infuriates regulators. He rose to national prominence with a cameo in Michael Pollan's popular 2006 book The Omnivore's Dilemma. In the spirit of...
Nature, landscape, and building for sustainability; a Harvard design magazine reader. Ed. by William S. Saunders. U. of Minnesota Press 2008 201 pages $22.95 Paperback Harvard design magazine readers; 6 SB472...
The gardener's bedside reader. Ed. by Kari Cornell. Voyageur Press 2008 255 pages $27.95 Hardcover SB455 Cornell found collecting these two dozen odes to gardening-- even The Delights of Weeding--to be...
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, 256 pages, The Penguin Press, $21.95 For the last 30 years and more, something has been disappearing from the American diet. Its absence, according to Michael Pollan, author of the best-selling The Omnivore's Dilemma, has led to widespread...
Journalist Michael Pollan has spent almost 20 years researching the American food system, a passion that has resulted in books like The Omnivore's Dilemma (Penguin, 2007) and his latest, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (The Penguin Press, 2008). This is a man who likes to know where his...
Shopping our way to safety; how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves. Szasz, Andrew. U. of Minnesota Press 2007 323 pages $24.95 Hardcover HC110 Faced with increasing environmental threats, people respond...
While grocery shoppers agonize over paying 25 percent more for eggs and 17 percent more for milk, Michael Pollan, the author and de facto leader of the food intellectuals, happily dreams of small, expensive bottles of Coca-Cola. Along with some other critics of the American way of eating,...
SWOOPE, Va. -- How rich is the smell of fermenting manure on Joel Salatin's Shenandoah Valley spread? A thousand bucks for a few whiffs. That's what Salatin, 51, the second-generation owner of Polyface Farm, commands for a two-hour, personally escorted tour of what may be the...
Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope. By Eric T. Freyfogle. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Culture of the Land Series. 183 pp. Notes and index. Cloth $30.00. For most environmental historians, reading Eric Freyfogle's latest book, Agrarianism and the Good Society, will be...
Political Authors Christopher Hitchens, Noah Feldman and Mark Lilla; Best-Selling Author Michael Pollan; and Bravo TV's President Lauren Zalaznick with 'Project Runway' Fashion Guru Tim Gunn and 'Top Chef' Judge Gail Simmons are Scheduled to Appear NEW YORK -- The New York Times announced today the third annual...
BOULDER, Colo. -- More than 52,000 retailers, manufacturers, and industry professionals attended the country's largest natural, organic, and healthy products trade show, Natural Products Expo West/Supply Expo 2008 (www.expowest.com), an increase of 11 percent over last year's attendance. In its 28th year, Natural Products Expo West/Supply Expo, produced by New...
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