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How Cooking Can Change Your Life
Two great videos to watch, shared via RSA. The RSA is a non-profit organisation working to meet 21st century challenges by showcasing ideas, undertaking innovative research and building civic capacity around the world. Can you really have your cake and eat it? According to Michael Pollan, you can. In this fun RSA Short, Pollan explains…
Read Full PostThe story of stuff: bottled water
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand — how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film…
Read Full PostBack to Basics: Multipurpose fruit cake
By Linda Cornelius ecogal Author and Designer Here’s how to make a healthy, low sugar fruit cake for daily use Note: this cake is really low on sugar. You can adjust to taste. This procedure makes clever use of the same top-down procedure used for the much more known French Tarte Tatin (see here Jamie…
Read Full PostOrganic Agriculture at WSU
Washington State University – College of Agricultural. Human and Natural Resource Science Recognizing its unique land-grant research and education mission to the people of Washington and the state’s increasing global involvement, the college provides leadership in discovering, accessing, and disseminating knowledge through high quality research, instruction and extension programs that contribute to a safe, abundant…
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Dirt! Inspired by William Bryant Logan’s acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth The Movie takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to. Dirt! The Movie will make you want to get dirty!
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