Tag Archive for ‘global warming’

AUGUST FILM & FOOD NIGHT

How can we survive perhaps the greatest danger we now face – climate change? Global Warming may be a contentious issue for many but there’s no argument – some areas of our planet that were once ‘food bowls’, abundant, fertile and productive land, are now dust bowls where people scratch a living from the dry [...]

GARDEN OF EATIN’

Orlando Home & Leisure Magazine, October 2008 A Landscape Good Enough to Eat Save your money, improve your cooking and help save the planet by transforming your lawn into an edible landscape. By Cindy Heroux No, we’re not suggesting you chow down on that boxwood hedge or dine on dracenas, but there’s a growing movement [...]

SEEDING CHANGE

Freedom Gardeners of the World, Unite! Photo Copyright 2004 Path to Freedom Seeding Change: Website Seeks to Liberate Diets—and Wallets—from Supermarket Site’s “100-Foot Diet” Brings Local Food Movement Home PASADENA, CA. – July 7, 2008 – Think of it as Facebook meets the Farmer’s Almanac: A social networking site for backyard pioneers who want to [...]

NOT SO GOOD NEWS

Everything seemingly is spinning out of control Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism. Horatio Alger, twist in your grave. The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in [...]