If you haven’t already, I think you should check out this ad for the -24 HOURS OF REALITY- event organized by the Climate Reality Project (headed by Al Gore). It’s an event that aims at getting the message out there, loud and clear, that climate change is happening. It will consist of a new presentation [...]
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Twenty pence and poem
Twenty pence bought me a treasure at the second-hand bookshop: a pocket-sized paperback packed with a few dozen trusty Walt Whitman poems. Though I can’t support Whitman’s sometime advocacy for Prohibition, he is both a Brooklyn boy and a voice against slavery, and, as my brother would phrase it, he wrote some ‘pretty nice stuff’, [...]
ESRS Winter School 2012
Sign up now for a Winter School opportunity with the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS). Here is the website for more information: http://www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be/Default.aspx?alias=www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be/phdwinterschool. Also, you can download the two-page flyer here. WinterSchool2012 chania_finaal. If you’ve been to one of these before, post a comment about it!
The subsidy story
The standard critique goes like this: subsidies make bad food cheap; the relative cheapness of bad food encourages people to eat lots of it; eating lots of bad food makes people obese and more generally unhealthy. Ergo, the current subsidy system causes, at least in part, the current obesity epidemic. Who can forget the scene [...]
Science, food, fun and some side dish thoughts
I’m always glad to hear about initiatives that try to connect science with broader audiences and this time Food4you is doing just that. The festival creates a space for all things food: movies, scientific knowledge, health & lifestyle information, cooking tips…you name it! Food4you will take place from the 1st until the 15th of October [...]
Comics in the kitchen
Many of you know that I’ve recently been on a TED kick. It’s been great; the brilliant speakers have opened my mind to whole host of eclectic topics, dropped in some clever ideas, and left me with excitement piqued and synapses firing. When I told one of my friends about this habit, though, he opined [...]
Reaching out through art
Even before I could start reading this article about the FARM: Food, Art, Revolution, Media Project, my attention was completely caught by the image posted with it (also here). I thought the picture captured a very special and powerful sentiment of reciprocity, respect and gratitude. When I read what it was about I could only smile and [...]
New Kevin Morgan essay on school food
Kevin Morgan has just published a short essay in the Education Journal, ‘Let them eat pickles: How local authority cuts could kill the school dinner revolution’. While school food, he says, is ‘the litmus test of a society’s commitment to social justice, public health, and sustainable development’, the results of that test don’t have much [...]
2011 School Meals Challenge
A few years ago I listed to an interview with U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan about his experience tackling the 2007 Congressional Food Stamp Challenge. He and four other representatives pledged to eat for a week on $21, the average ‘food stamp’ budget at the time. They did – and in the process they drew a [...]
Fast Food 2.0
No other food related service has been so publicly and strongly criticized as fast food…and for good reasons. If you have been living under a rock for the last decade or so maybe you have missed the powerful arguments that Schlosser, Pollan, Kenner, Spurlock and many others have put forward to the general public about [...]
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