Jimmu's blog: Archive

Aug 25th

Collective Responsibility

From The Way We Live Now in NY Times Magazine “…The question of personal responsibility, then, ends up being more complicated than it may seem. It’s hard to argue that Americans have collectively become more irresponsible over the last 30 years; the murder rate has plummeted, and divorce and abortion rates have fallen. And our genes certainly haven’t changed in 30 years. What has...

Aug 24th

We are not raising citizens, we are raising...

BY KURT MICHAEL FRIESE There has been a cultural revolution in this country over the last 50 to 75 years, a sort of intellectual cleansing that has removed from most people’s minds any understanding of food, of cooking, of the pleasures of the kitchen and table, and replaced it with the language of the drive-thru, the shopping mall, and the convenience store. Michael Pollanrecently addressed this...

Aug 18th

Debunking the meat/climate change myth

Editor’s note: Eliot Coleman is one of the most revered and influential small-scale farmers in the United States, famous for growing delicious vegetables through the Maine winter with little use of fossil fuel. Eliot sent me the following letter as a response to my recent piece on the greenhouse-gas foorprint of industrial meat. At question is a 2007 report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture...

Aug 12th

How to lick a slug

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF MOUNT HOOD, Ore. While backpacking here with my 11-year-old daughter, I kept thinking of something tragic: so few kids these days know what happens when you lick a big yellow banana slug. My daughter and I were recuperating in a (banana slug-infested) wilderness from a surfeit of civilization. On our second day on the Pacific Crest Trail, we were exhausted after nearly 20...

Aug 5th

Dr.Seuss's The Lorax

Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have teamed up to bring Dr. Seuss’s environmental tale, The Lorax, to a big screen near you on Seuss’s birthday in 2012. If you’re unfamiliar with the story (for shame!) the story is told by a selfish entrepreneur who clear cuts the forest of all of its Truffala trees leaving no homes for the animals. It’s often referred to as a parable about...

Aug 5th

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A sad, very sad reality

Western cultures believe in a the magic fix, the magic diet, the magic formula. One pill to fix to a problem, even if it creates 12 other problems, that is not a problem, there are 12 other pills to take. I call this perspective myopia - a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something, in this case, the bigger picture. Lets not question how, as a society, we came to think that...

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Jul 28th

Schwarzenegger Terminates Trans Fat in Calif.

from ABC News California Becomes the First State to Ban Trans Fats By MOLLY HUNTER July 25, 2008 — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it official: California will be the first trans-fat free state in the nation. All-natural palm, rice and soybean oils will soon be king, and life in the Golden State will be forever altered. The California legislature pushed the bill through last week, and...

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A dollar of prevention is worth $5.60 in cure

By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News If $10 were invested for every American each year into proven health programs, we could save up to $16 billion in health costs annually within five years, making the payoff for each dollar spent $5.60. That’s according to a report from the Trust for America’s Health, which reports that Medicare would see $5 billion in savings, while private...

Jul 21st

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On Good Food this morning, Catherine Friend talks...

Jul 19th

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WE Play! Trainings Coming to a City Near You

Just received this email from Kaboom. Kids Need Playgrounds! Learn how to make it happen at WE Play! Learn how to fundraise, build and advocate for great places to play in your community! Thanks to the generous support of our partners KOOL-AID and The Home Depot and led by KaBOOM! presenters, KaBOOM! Workshops Entirely on Play are one-day, FREE regional trainings packed with interactive...

Jul 18th

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Jul 16th

Watch

On the Today Show this morning. Richard Louv and the importance of spending time in the wild.

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Out of the Kitchen, Into the Field

Some great Feminine inspiration. By Melissa Breyer “There is much work women can do on a farm with perfect propriety,” Laura Clay, a bluegrass farmer and veteran suffragist was quoted as saying in The New York Times on Nov. 18, 1917. Nearly a century later, Clay’s statement rings vibrantly true. There are 80 percent more women who are farmers than there were 20 years ago in the United States,...

Jul 13th

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Why Do We Eat When We're Not Hungry?

“We are a nation of mindless eaters,” says Professor Brian Wansink. Wansink is taking a scientific approach to that question. His lab at Cornell University often looks more like a restaurant, CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports. His theory is this: We eat with our eyes more than our stomachs. “All of these cues around us are suggesting how much to eat and what...

Jul 12th

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