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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→

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→