digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/30/walmart-local-business-local-dollars-picture-image/”; Save this to Del.icio.us! Here’s a sign that carries with it some interesting questions. Is it good for society that we are driving down costs by moving our purchases to Mega-Stores like Walmart that source their products and services all over the world — and that tend to push their operating costs [...]
Save to del.icio.us — tags organic books gardening toread environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/16/organic-food-growing-farming-acriculture-silent-spring-ddt/”; It’s Sunday night and I’m on my laptop to begin this passionate subject – Organics! My mind was whizzing with random topics and bits of information to write on this column. I realized then that the best way to [...]
There’s an opinion piece in the NY Times today that argues against local food production being the most environmentally friendly way to get food to your table. As regular readers know, this is a subject that’s dear to us here at 21st Century Citizen. We believe that supporting local agriculture has many benefits — including [...]
Tree hugger brings us news on new twist on local food, an underground farm in Tokyo. It’s main purpose is to provide training for Japanese students interested in learning about farming. It reminds me of the Winter I grew organic tomatoes in my basement under lights. I calculated that it cost me $25 a month [...]
This is the first post of an ongoing feature here at 21st Century Citizen. It’s called ‘Choices’ and it’s purpose is to present a simple, values-based choice and generate discussion. It’s also intended to make you think a bit and examine the reasons why you make the choices you make. Here we go with our [...]
Here’s a wonderful post from Seacoast Eat Local, wonderful, very-local blog located in the Seacoast area of Southern, NH. They blogged today about a youtube video that very simply lays out the story of our food supply and some of the issues surrounding it. For example, did you know that the process of growing, processing [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Still Life With Produce, originally uploaded by shawn schreiner. More local food shots today. It’s almost August and we’re at just about the peak of gardening and local produce season. The [...]
