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Growing Green: Honoring Leaders Who Are Changing the Way We Farm and Eat

May 8, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
agriculture, eatlocal, localfood, michaelpollan, simplesteps, sustainablefarming

Tomorrow night NRDC will do something it has never done before: give out the inaugural Growing Green Awards to leaders in the sustainable food movement. Selected by a panel chaired by Michael Pollan, the best-selling author of the Omnivore's Dilemma,...continued

Confessions of an Environmentalist

February 20, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Living Sustainably

Tags:
cfls, eatlocal, famersmarkets, greenliving, plasticbottles, prius, simplesteps, unionsquaregreenmarket

Last week, the New Times Style Section had a great article on the steps that suburbanites are taking to adopt green power, get kids to walk or ride their bikes to school safely, and reduce the impact of those perfect...continued

Eating Well for Yourself and for the Next Generation

January 30, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
breastcancer, eatlocal, EPA, michaelpollan, organicfood, pesticides, simplesteps, toxins

I recently read about Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food--currently the second best-selling hardcover in the nation. Like many others, I was inspired by its famously lean tagline: “Eat food. Not much. Mostly plants.” I love how Pollan’s...continued