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Gabriele F. Kushi, BFA, MEA, macrobiotic nutritional consultant/chef/educator The goals of macrobiotics are the realization of planetary health and happiness, world peace and human evolution. Macrobiotic, derived from the Greek word macrobios (large life), is associated worldwide with living and eating in harmony with the season. Macrobiotics embraces the 5,000-year-old …
Collette Morgan Wild Rumpus Books The key to getting young people fired up about environmentalism is to present them with a balance of information and plausible solutions. This fresh crop of books is intended to give kids clear and achievable ways to contribute to saving the world. Eco Babies …
Sara Grochowski Do It Green! Minnesota With each new generation, it seems people are more transient and decisions on where to live are not always based on closeness to family. In times past, grandmothers or aunts were so intimately involved in a family’s life, particularly due to their proximity, that …
Frontiers in the Environment: Big Questions with Matteo Convertino, IonE Resident Fellow and Assistant Professor, School of Public Health; and Craig Hedberg, Professor, School of Public Health Despite being a global concern, food safety is addressed in a systematic way only in some developed countries. We need an integrated …
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Erin Hendel In the heart of the sprawling Twin Cities metro area, there exist many well-hidden green spaces where you can join other area residents on a full moon canoeing excursion, feed wildlife, help biologists with animal field studies, take a class on Giant Cecropia Moths, or learn about gardening …
Brooke Owen Translator ¿Sabes cuándo se cosechó la manzana que comiste, o de dónde son los champiñones, o cuántas millas ha recorrido la cerveza hasta llegar a tu boca? ¡Si supieras la verdad! Algunas variedades de manzanas más populares son tratadas con químicos para que puedan ser vendidas un año …
Read moreCompra comida a granel y comida de productores locales
SARA GROCHOWSKI Do It Green! Minnesota How important is it to you that a business is locally and independently owned, or that it engages in green practices? How important is it to you that you work for an environmentally friendly company? Or that your office space or production facility is …
Hennepin County Environmental Services Control Your Exposure Want to learn how to lose 39 pounds of unwanted mail? The best way to keep your name off a mailing list is to control your exposure. In order to keep your name off a list for the long term, think about how …
Tara Wesely Do It Green! Magazine We love to slurp it, splash it, spill it. The wet stuff flows from our faucets with such ease we can’t help but forget that our supply is not, in fact, infinite. Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh (and much …
Frontiers in the Environment with Sarah Hobbie, IonE Resident Fellow and Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences Eutrophication — the degradation of water quality from nutrient-rich runoff — continues to impair the capacity for urban waters to provide clean drinking water, habitat to support biodiversity, food, …
