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Urban Agriculture

March 9, 2015 By gmoke

Here's the text of a presentation I did March 4, 2015 at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Building Energy conference in Boston, MA. This was the first time the conference addressed urban agriculture. Everybody eats and it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, architecture, boston, cities, design, environment, food, gardening, Milan

MyCityGardens: Networking Greater Boston Gardening

March 30, 2014 By gmoke

MyCityGardens.com is up and running for the season. We're a local yard sharing website that connects gardeners, mentors, and people with access to space, to neighbors who want to roll up their sleeves and dig in. If you have extra space … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civic technology, ecology, environment, food, gardening

Lobster’s Wicked Cheap. So Why Are Lobster Rolls Still So Expensive?

August 20, 2013 By thegreenmiles

Lobster's going for $3.99 a pound at my local Market Basket, but up the road at Oxford Creamery Route 6 in Mattapoisett, lobster rolls are still $12. Why? James Surowiecki reports in The New Yorker that there are several factors in play, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: food, lobster, seafood

Eating the City and Town: Todmorden and Beyond

September 5, 2012 By gmoke

http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2012S/Blank/PamWarhurst_2012S-320k.mp4 A few months ago, some people in Cambridge, MA were inspired by the example of Todmorden in the UK between Leeds and Manchester, a town that decided to grow as much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cambridge, food, gardening, ma, systems, Todmorden, urban environment

Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems

February 29, 2012 By gmoke

On Monday January 30th, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) held a public meeting at Suffolk University, halfway between the State House and City Hall, to change the Boston zoning laws to allow for agriculture throughout the city, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, boston, cambridge, cities, community gardens, composting, food, fruit trees, gardening, permaculture, resilience, sustainability

“Expired-Food Guy” Connolly Fights for Another Go

May 24, 2011 By massmarrier

Boston At-Large City Councilor John Connolly was kind of surprised that his old-frozen-foods-in-schools investigation made such a splash. Regardless, he chairs the body's education committee and shows an astonishing passion for public … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: at large, boston, budget, city-council, education, elections, food

Expired food scandal

April 12, 2011 By hubspoke

I'd like a good explication of the meaning of food expiration dates. Has anyone heard a credible expert comment on this?"It's not rancid food. It's not spoiled food.''But Leslie Walker, executive director of Prisoners' Legal Services, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: expiration-date, food

NU College Dems Fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen this Tuesday 11/30

November 28, 2010 By liamh

Please come support the Northeastern University College Democrats on this Tuesday November 30 2010 at the California Pizza Kitchen in the Prudential Center, Boston, MA by bringing the flyer below (and all of your friends) and showing the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 11/30, college, colleges, cpk, dinner, food, fundraiser, lunch, neu, northeastern, nu, random, students, tuesday, universities, university

A New Recipe for the American Food System

October 1, 2010 By desa-vanlaarhoven

Food sovereignty is an issue we will likely hear a lot about in coming years. Basically, it is the right a community has to determine where its food comes from. Outbreaks of food-borne illness receive great attention, but concerns about our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: connecting-for-change, farmers-market, food, honest-tea, local-food, marion-institute, new-england, nutrition, sustainability, sustainable-farming

How to Heal the World

March 29, 2010 By gmoke

I think about this as I plant my garden.  I remember John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed;  Jean Giono's story of Elzéard Bouffier, "The Man Who Planted Trees;"  John Todd's vision to restore the devastated mountains of Appalachia. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, arboriculture, ecology, environment, food, gardening, john-todd, permaculture, random

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