Spring is nearly here and I’m encouraging you to think about where you’ll buy fresh fruits and vegetables this year. With help from the Santa Fe Farmers Market, here are ten reasons to consider your local farmers market or food co-op:
♦ 1 – Local food tastes better.
Most likely it was picked in the last couple of days, which makes it [...]
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10 Reasons to Buy Local Produce
Posted in American life, Farms, conservation, development, diet, environment, farming, health, healthy living, inspiration, nature, open space, outdoors, sustainability, tagged agriculture, community, conservation, development, diet, environment, farming, Farms, healthy living, inspiration, local farms, local food, nature, open space, sustainability on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Six Ways to Combat the Evils of Plastic Packaging
Posted in American life, conservation, environment, healthy living, overpackaging, recycling, sustainability, tagged environment, environmentally-friendly, manufacturing, overpackaging, plastic, plastic packaging, recycling, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Did you ever cut your fingers or hands opening the hard plastic shell that surrounds newly purchased kids’ toys or electronic devices or… mixed salad greens?
I cut myself twice last week – once on a party tray and once on a package of cookies! Cookies! And I’m not the only one – a quick Google search on “dangerous plastic packaging” (!) turned up [...]
Thank you!
Posted in American life, Durham Township, Pennsylvania, art, artists, conservation, development, inspiration, nature, open space, photoblog, photography, tagged art, artists, conservation, development, Palisades High School, photography, show, urban sprawl on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Palisades Gallery for my show opening last night – what a great time! I didn’t get a chance to talk with everyone because it was so well-attended, so if I missed you, please forgive me. Send me a note and let’s catch up!
Special thanks to those who [...]
Saving the Candy Bar Ranch
Posted in Farms, conservation, development, open space, tagged conservation, development, endangered species, farm, open space, ranch, wildlife on January 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
M & M Mars was born in a Tacoma, Washington kitchen in 1911 when candy salesman Frank Mars set his sights on making the best candy bar on the market. He and wife Ethel made and sold chocolate buttercreams out of their house for nine years. Locally very successful, they moved their business to a Minneapolis candy factory and by 1930, Mars, Inc. was grossing $800,000 [...]
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