January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
1 post
In northwest Pasadena, access to healthful food is... →
latimes:
Just three supermarkets serve an area with 66,000 people. The Pasadena Public Health Department wants to set up a farmers market there next year.
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
Thank a farm worker for putting food on your... →
An unprecedented number of consumers across America are questioning the system that puts food on their tables. Yet all too often, farm workers are left out of this discussion. In California, farm workers have literally been paying with their lives when their employers fail to provide shade and drinking water during extreme temperatures. Nationally, farm workers die in workplace incidents...
“Money and time. “I ride the bus to get to work,” Nicholas says. It takes an...”
– The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More (via africansunset)
September 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
Watchpoptech:
“Is water still running?” is perhaps the most important question when considering water initiatives worldwide, concludes Water for People CEO Ned Breslin. He’s tired of seeing broken hand pumps and taps litter Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These signs of failed projects underscore the critical need to overhaul water aid for real impact.
Maine Town Becomes First in US to Declare Food... →
flavorpill:
“The town of Sedgwick, Maine, population 1,012 (according to the 2000 census), has become the first town in the United States to pass a Food Sovereignty ordinance. In doing so, the town declared their right to produce and sell local foods of their choosing, without the oversight of State or federal regulation.”
Homelessness: Cutting out the middle men. →
jayparkinsonmd:
If a small experiment conducted in London is any indication, a cost effective way to help the homeless may be to simply give them money.
One asked for a new pair of trainers and a television; another for a caravan on a travellers’ site in Suffolk, which was duly bought for him. Of the 13 people who engaged with the scheme, 11 have moved off the streets. The outlay averaged...
February 2011
3 posts
Chevron Fined $8 Billion for Amazon Pollution :... →
Learn more: Chevron in Ecuador
(via davereed)
January 2011
3 posts
Houston permit rule stops couple's effort to feed... →
hilker:
jeffmiller:
This story is getting a lot of attention because it’s featured on Drudge right now, but it’s the kind of thing that happens all the time. When regulations are put into place, there is rarely any real effort to understand their costs. We make it harder to help people, just like we make it harder to hire people. This makes hard economic times feel even harder.
when i...
Watchplastic in our food is bad, let’s use less plastic.
October 2010
4 posts
September 2010
1 post
Smart Cities Support Local Food
smartercities:
Cities are smart when they support local businesses, farmers, growers and artisans. Lansing, MI’s year-round urban market has been around for more than 100 years and with its recent reinvention, we’re helping more people than ever have access to fresh, nutritious food at affordable prices.
August 2010
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
April 2010
2 posts
“While most Americans continue to voluntarily take steps to help the environment,...”
– Gallup, via Americans No Greener In Past Decade, Environmental Activism Declining: New Gallup Poll : TreeHugger (via ordinarymachines) (via aboveandbeyond)
March 2010
4 posts
“Africa, Asia and Latin America alone, simply by using water more efficiently,...”
– (source)
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
1 tag
December 2009
6 posts
Churches Often Do More Harm Than Good When...
mediablanket:
CHICAGO, IL — American Christians aren’t doing enough to alleviate poverty, and when they attempt to do so, they often do more harm than good. So say Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, authors of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor … and Yourself (Moody Publishers), an eye-opening new book on the causes of and solutions to the problem of poverty.
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Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the...
(proofmathisbeautiful:ohyeahfacts:(source)
Proverbs 31:8
fishforpeople:
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.
my boss, on the new worm bin
my boss: I'm just saying, I overheard some people in the lunch room who are squeamish about moldy stuff in the office
me: No mold! It's a completely different decomposing process! It won't smell at all
my boss: Hey, you're talking to someone who spends half his day standing in horse sh*t, so I'm clearly not squeamish about gross things
November 2009
1 post
“For the first year of our project, we would illicitly buy raw milk from an older...”
– This is why you can’t get good food… (via newsweek)
October 2009
8 posts
“In America, A pedestrian is someone who has parked their car.”
– Tom Vandebilt (via ambivalence) (via roomthily)
“Well, I happen to be European, and I can project with the best of them. So...”
– Bono (via azspot) (via transparentcommunity)
“Each and every day 500,000 people ride their bicycle to work or school in and...”
– The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog Copenhagenize.com (via somethingchanged)
(via autumnfringes)
one of my favourite worship...