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There's Something About Dairy, Say WorldWatch
The WorldWatch Institute have published the first in a two-part series examining the potential environmental and economic impact of greater localization of food. And, as always, they've put together...
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Reality TV Meets the Hundred Mile Diet
When James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith first wrote about the 100 Mile Diet in the Tyee in 2005 it was like a bomb going off. Their personal story became a meme, and a big part of the local food...
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Take the 10 Percent Shift Challenge to Boost Your Local Economy
Photo: Sara Novak Local economies could certainly use any sort of a boost that they can get right now and we all know the benefits of buying locally for the planet. In these times of economic hardship...
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Four Years Ago in TreeHugger: Green Travel Tips, First Post on the Hundred...
It is hard to believe, but until this article was written nobody in the world had ever used the term 100 mile diet, invented by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. Mike was sceptical. Living On The 100...
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Is "Locally Grown" the new greenwashing catch phrase?
Image Source: Pablo Paster I was perusing the produce section of my local Safeway supermarket when I began to notice signs proclaiming that certain fruits and vegetables were "Locally Grown." I...
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Huffington Post Mashes Local Food with Community Participation
As Bonnie wrote last year, "Seasonal restaurants are all the rage, and they should be at this time of the year. With fresh from the field vegetables and fruits available on an hourly basis, chefs are...
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Meme Watch: The Hundred Mile Holiday
Four years ago the Tyee published an article by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon called Living on the 100-Mile Diet; it became a meme, a successful book and a television show. Now the Tyee is in the...
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Local Redefined: Harris Teeter's 'Local' Tomatoes
Sometimes a picture says it all. Eric Henry, of green t-shirt pioneers TS Designs, posted this on his Facebook page. The focus isn't what it could be, so for those who can't read it - it's a tomato,...
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The Farmery: Vertical Farming Integrated with Retail
Adam Stein over at TerraPass may have argued that vertical farming is pie in the sky, but there's no shortage of dreamers who beg to disagree. From Organitech's high-density vegetable production to...
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Valley of the 100-Mile Diet Bike Tour
Come to the Fraser Valley, home of the 100-Mile Diet, where locavores can feast on artisanal cheeses, organic produce and hand-crafted wines, and get an insider's peak
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Seed to Plate: Online Garden Planner Makes it Easy
With the Obamas gardening at the White House, vegetable gardening seems to have hit the mainstream. But many folks are still intimidated by the whole process - what do I plant, when, how many and how...
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7 Best Green Vacations in Canada
From British Columbia to the Maritime Islands and across the Yukon tundra, Canada's landscape of glacial expanses, Boreal forest, and spooky badlands cover vast protected wilderness. National parks...
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Bioneers 2009: Michael Pollan Drinks Oil
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael...
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Attacking the 100 Mile Diet is the News Meme of the Moment
No doubt you have heard of ear worms, those songs that just get caught in your head and never leave. There are also news worms, the same story and the same guy popping up on radio, TV and in print...
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Home is Where the Food Is: 100 Mile Diet (Video)
Home Is Where the Food Is tells the simple tale of Tina Biello making dinner for her family. In particular, this dinner comes from all locally grown ingredients in or near Vancouver, and highlights...
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12 One-Year Personal Stunts We Can't Stop Talking About
Call them New Year's resolutions on steroids: The past few years have seen a variety of people publicly pledge to spend 365 days living a more environmentally friendly life, whether by eating locally...
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How perfect is the Park Slope Food Coop?
Having moved to Booklyn NY from Spain for a couple of months, I was eager to get to know the Park Slope Food Coop (PSFC), one of the oldest and largest in America. A lot of people told me stories...
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Locavorism The Great Leap Forward?
Damon Darlin in the New York Times says he thinks in the midst of this cold and snowy East Coast winter it is time to question the viability of the locavore movement and those "so-called locavores who...
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The Anarchy of Cheese Made Simple
Image: Chelsea Green Book Review: Cheesemonger by Edgar Gordon Cheesemonger inspires one to become an expert on cheese -- or on anything for that matter -- with the realization that this goal is...
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Brewers Plate Celebrates Spring With Local Food Plus
When I was first invited to the Brewers Plate in Toronto two years ago, I thought they were nuts, trying to put together an event celebrating local Ontario food before even the asparagus was poking...
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'Eat Well Guide' Helps You Eat Local, Like Guster
So the alt rock group Guster is challenging people to eat local, for their tastebuds and the planet. That's easy for them to say, though, right? They're co-founders of the Green Music Group. They know...
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Local Food, Motherfu$k*r: 10 Awesome Ad Campaigns Addressing Food's Carbon...
A picture is worth a thousand words. How can we grab people's attention, and get them to eat more local food? Yes, local food -- because it is healthier, slashes food's carbon footprint, and makes you...
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7 Tips for Enjoying Nature's Mushroom Bounty
Few things are finer than taking advantage of fresh, local ingredients growing wild and free to spice up a fantastic meal. In Germany, mushroom season is celebrated with special menus featuring the...
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Sociopolis, the Rurban Housing Project Brings the Campo to the City (Photos)
Inhabiting the Huerta. Photo Credit: Guallart Architects Five years ago, we first heard about Sociopolis, a "shared habitat" in Valencia (Spain). This housing development is to trigger social...
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Design Goes On The 100 Mile Diet
The 100 Mile Diet has been a meme on TreeHugger for a few years now, so it is fitting that that is the theme of a joint project of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) on the east coast and...
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Slow Food Gets Fast, Meets Good Design at Fastvinic, an Eco-Cozy Sandwich Shop
The other day I had a delicious local sandwich in the fabulous new space Fastvínic in Barcelona. It seems the Catalan capital has finally got a place where fast slow food meets good design (and not...
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Edward Glaeser Phones In The Old Arguments Against Local Agriculture
Economist and author Edward Glaeser enjoys contradicting popular wisdom; I reported on his trashing of Jane Jacobs earlier; now he writes in the Boston Globe that Urban farms do more
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ROCK REUSE RECYCLE at Rock-A-Field Festival
Last weekend I experienced what was for me the greenest music festival so far. And not only because at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg you actually get to rock a lush green field surrounded by dense...
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Study Comparing Local To Meat-Free Diet Is Dated and Debunked
All the blogs are writing about a Harvard Business Review story by Andrew Winston, titled Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story ; even our Rachel picked it up with New Study: Going
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Slow Eggs from Native Chicken Get Attention Again
In and around Barcelona slow food and local delicatessen have become quite the thing lately. Projects like the slow food restaurant Fastvínic or the happy pig farm Finca del Saüc are popping up like...
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