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How To Start A Local Food Buying Club

Food fresh from the field is what we all seek, but only a small number of us can grow it. So what can we do to see that our families get the healthy and tasty foods that they need? Furthermore, can...

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The 100 Mile Diet

Cooking is about more than tossing something into a microwave and setting the timer. There are times when this may be necessary. Life’s various demands often make meal times quick affairs at...

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10 Simple Ways to Go Green

So you say you're going green? Or, maybe you say you don't know what it means to go green? Either way, I hope this little list of simple ways to go green works for you. Photo By: Chris Gin Too much focus...

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Sustainable Agriculture - The 100 Mile Diet

The one-year experiment in local eating that Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon began in 2005 has fired the imagination of widely diverse people in a way they may never have imagined. Their experiment, documented in a series of articles, and culminating in the publication of two books to date on the 100 Mile Diet, has inspired thousands of individuals, and even whole communities, to change the way they eat...to the benefit of local producers; sustainable agriculture; carbon footprint; new organic; f

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Eating Like a Localvore

Yes, I said "localvore". Don't be surprised if you've not heard the term before, it's a fairly new concept born out of the current trend of environmental friendliness. A greener way of eating.

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How to be a Locavore:The 100 Mile Diet

Food, the way that it is done now, has a huge carbon footprint. It is transported for thousands of miles using fossil fuels. Even if you have a dairy a mile away from your home the milk you drink likely travels several hundred miles at the very least before it gets to your table.

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Electric Vehicles! A Big Joke or Reality?

Swimming north searching for ice to rest and dry out on. Enlightened governmental leadership is a double oxymoron! The lack thereof regarding legislative control of emissions and incentives to produce clean...

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Global Climate Change: Seeing The Opportunity In The Threat

The debate over whether or not human beings have contributed to global climate change is a distraction. It distracts our energy from the work that we need to do and channels it into a never ending...

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Leaving TX, Alternative Country Rock Band

Chris Patterson & his Band "Leaving, TX" "One part Irish, one part Scottish, one part Norwegian, one part Cuban, add a telecaster, a pedal steel, an old beat up Gretsch, and a case of PBR, mix it up, and drop...

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Let's Ride! The New Normal part 2

 I'm sure most of us remember getting up early in the Summertime, grabbing our bikes and heading off into the neighborhood or beyond. Sometimes we came home for lunch, sometimes we didn't, we were free, and...

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