It may seem out of character for Walmart to act as an agent for positive change, but the only thing really out of character would be to knowingly undermine its bottom line.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 21, 2010.
Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence.
Food aid floods agricultural markets and destabilizes fragile local economies. But there is a solution: The U.S. can buy food aid crops directly from local farmers in Africa.
Access to cheap energy made us rich, wrecked our climate, and made us the first people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors -- that has to change.
A glance into America’s past suggests that homemaking could play a big part in addressing the ecological, economic and social crises of our present time.
Steph Larsen, Blog for Rural America. January 11, 2010.
To have a truly local food system, we also need local butchers, bakers and millers, local truck drivers, local grocers, and a community that supports them in all their efforts.
Stacy Mitchell, New Rules Project. September 8, 2009.
Hoping to capitalize on growing public enthusiasm for all things local, some of the world's biggest corporations are brashly laying claim to the word "local."
"Just Food" is framed as the lament of a lapsed locavore who has been driven into the arms of Agribiz by food-mile militants who, according to him, number in the millions.
The author samples some of the growing list of how-to books on eating local -- including the latest from Barbara Kingsolver -- and follows their recipes for the slow food lifestyle.
