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Eco-Activism

In Support Of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

In support of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day, we have launched a week long campaign in support of Island Grown Schools. We are on a mission to raise 1,000 supporters of IGS by next Saturday. For every new ‘like’ IGS receives on Facebook there will be a seedling donated for a school garden. Island Grown [...]

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Synthetic Organic?

I have a friend in Washington DC who is a whistle blower and a policy analyst at the EPA and he sends me emails everyday. I found his most recent message regarding the new proposal about synthetic methionine in organic poultry production both interesting and utterly annoying:
The USDA will publish on February 6, 2012 a [...]

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OYSTERS

Oysters are truly a sustainable food  – they are having a significant impact up and down the eastern coast .
They are saving our ponds on Martha’s Vineyard where excess nutrients from septic systems and lawn fertilizers have been slowly killing the ponds’ ecosystems. With the introduction of oyster farming, our ponds are coming back and [...]

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No Poison Served…

I was in my son’s high school this week and I noticed a person drinking a diet soda. I became irritated that we allow this in schools. I remember my days when I was a school teacher and teachers smoked in the school lunch room and all around the school grounds. In only 15 years, [...]

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