From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Visualization: Scientific Support for Various Supplements

February 27, 2010

This cool lit­tle info­graphic is trend­ing right now. The inter­ac­tive ver­sion gives even more data. It comes from this awe­some web­site. They also make this awesome book.

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TV Sneak Peek: Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

February 26, 2010

Jamie Oliver’s new ABC-TV show is start­ing March 26th and the net­work has just begun it’s pre­views. The show looks fan­tas­tic. I don’t think he’ll have any prob­lem round­ing up a siz­able audi­ence. Some of the same footage from the pro­mos below was also in the TED video I posted last week.

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Julia & Dave — 1987ish

February 26, 2010
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Must Watch : Jamie Oliver’s 2010 TED Prize Wish.

February 20, 2010

He won this year. That means that the über-elite TED fel­lows and sub­scribers will offer their atten­tion and tal­ents towards ful­fill­ing his wish over the next year.
“I wish for your help to cre­ate a strong, sus­tain­able move­ment to edu­cate every child about food, inspire fam­i­lies to cook again and empower peo­ple every­where to fight obesity.”

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Good Compost, Good Soil, Good Food

February 13, 2010

I’m tak­ing a soil sci­ence class at Mira­Costa col­lege in Ocean­side, CA, and we’re doing a lot of com­post­ing. A friend in the class told me two local cities, Carls­bad and Encini­tas, sub­si­dize the cost of buy­ing a nice Smith and Hawken stack­able com­post bin from the Solana Cen­ter in Encini­tas. Being such that this soil […]

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A Game-Changer for Local, Artisan Food Producers

February 10, 2010

For the last year I’ve been won­der­ing how the inter­net enables local food sys­tems to com­pete with the main­stream indus­tri­al­ized food sys­tem. And to be hon­est I haven’t seen that ser­vices like Twit­ter or Face­book have done much to change this, although the poten­tial for con­struc­tive community-building is present. But out of the blue I […]

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Factory Farming on the Evening News

February 9, 2010

Tonight the issue of MRSA, super­bugs, and the overuse of antibi­otics on fac­tory farms made an appear­ance on CBS Evening News. There’s even a link on Katie Couric’s web­site on how to find “locally-grown, sus­tain­able food near you.”

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