11 hours ago by The Packaging Diva

Whatever holiday you celebrate in the coming weeks with eating drinking and gift giving the Packaging Makes It Possible. Most people take that for granted as they are too busy complaining about holiday overpackaging, wrap rage or how they were injured and had to go to the hospital. They forget that ...

Packaging News You Can Use - packaginguniversity.com/blog · 22 references

3 days ago by Ylla Wright

As the world meets in Copenhagen this week for the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference, it was interesting to read that government economic research agency the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) is refuting the widely-held belief that buying locally produced f ...

Kissing frogs & eating snails - yllawright.com · 1 reference

3 days ago by ourgreencity

How many food miles are on your plate today? What type of journey did your rib-eye endure? Was it a planes, trains and automobiles scenario for your spuds? Increasingly, Torontonians food priorities are shifting and they are beginning to ask these questions. One of those is self-acknowledged locavor ...

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3 days ago by foodservicefootprint

Almost three-quarters (73%) of businesses surveyed have developed a more detailed knowledge of their spending and resource use as a result of the recession, according to The Envirowise Business Thrift Shift Report. This includes everything from investment in raw materials, transport and energy, to s ...

Footprint Blog - foodservicefootprint.wordpress.com

4 days ago by Aussie Elv

It’s summer in Australia and that means it’s hot. I live in Queensland, so that means it’s bloody hot! (Ok, South East Queensland isn’t hot to the rest of the Queenslanders, but it is to a lot of the outside world.) My point is, it’s too hot to stand in the kitchen over a hot stove. Summer in Queens ...

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4 days ago by admin

What is your carbon footprint? In basic terms it is a measure of all the greenhouse gases we produce as individuals, businesses and societies. What are greenhouse gases? Greenhouse gases are present in the atmosphere and help to retain the earth’s heat. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most well known an ...

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8 days ago by Expatriate Chef

Brighter Planet is hosting a cool contest for your sustainable cooking and eating tips. I entered a few items. The big prize is a Kindle, which I would enjoy a lot. But what got me interested in submitting is that Alice Waters will be one of the people judging the writing, as well as Bill McKibben. ...

The Expatriate's Kitchen - expatriateskitchen.blogspot.com · Rank: 9,832 · 172 references

9 days ago by Eating for Beginners

There’s a really interesting piece in the New York Times today about why we should eat frozen fish–specifically salmon, which is the species the authors of this article studied. One of my Eating for Beginners adventures was going out on a day fishing boat in New Jersey, an experience that involved t ...

Eating For Beginners - eatingforbeginners.com · 3 references

9 days ago by sineadfarmer

I’m very worried that the UN Climate Change Conference is going to amount to nothing. Gordon Brown and Barack Obama aren’t bothering to turn up until the last day. This decade has been the hottest on record. Everyone knows about it, we all know what we are supposed to do, but are we actually doing a ...

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13 days ago by Hock

Sitting in my inbox today an email from a dearest friend who joined me at this lunch a ways back. Subject: TK! I will send you photos of Thanksgiving, let me zip them up in a file. We brined the turkey for about 48 hours, including a bottle of white wine. It was the most moist and flavorful turkey w ...

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