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The Institute of Medicine recently released a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that found children are not eating enough dark green vegetables, fruits, or whole grains. Reauthorization of The Child Nutrition Act in early 2010 is important if federal school nutrition programs are to provide healthier, safer, and more nutritional food for students.
Lunch Encounters, a spoof of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was created for the One Tray organization by three IATP Food & Society Fellows — Shalini Kantayya, Nicole Betancourt, and Debra Eschmeyer — in hopes of raising awareness for the upcoming reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.To read more about One Tray, visit http://onetray.org/.
This is Joel’s second appearance on greenlandoceanblue (some of you may have missed his debut in July). In any case, take a minute or so and watch it.
If you don’t have the time, take a half a minute or so and read Polyface Farms’ Guiding Principles:
TRANSPARENCY: Anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime. No trade secrets, no locked doors, every corner is camera-accessible.
GRASS-BASED: Pastured livestock and poultry, moved frequently to new “salad bars,” offer landscape healing and nutritional superiority.
INDIVIDUALITY: Plants and animals should be provided a habitat that allows them to express their physiological distinctiveness. Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
COMMUNITY: We do not ship food. We should all seek food closer to home, in our foodshed, our own bioregion. This means enjoying seasonality and reacquainting ourselves with our home kitchens.
NATURE’S TEMPLATE: Mimicking natural patterns on a commercial domestic scale insures moral and ethical boundaries to human cleverness. Cows are herbivores, not omnivores; that is why we’ve never fed them dead cows like the United States Department of Agriculture encouraged (the alleged cause of mad cows).
EARTHWORMS: We’re really in the earthworm enhancement business. Stimulating soil biota is our first priority. Soil health creates healthy food.
Please pay a visit to polyfacefarms.com.
Note to sushi fans: be sure to consult your Environmental Defense Fund Sushi Selector before ordering. Available at www.edf.org.
“Flower™ lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments using only the SIXAXIS motion controls.”
Flower is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. ©2008 Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. Developed by thatgamecompany.
SEAPLEX scientist Chelsea Rochman talks about the impacts plastics have on the ocean from the point of view of chemicals and pollutants. She specifically talks about Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) how they accumulate up the food chain, and how they affect us.
Hat Tip: Peligro
Lily, a 5th-grader at Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools’ Great Seneca Creek Elementary School, talks about attending a LEED-Gold school.* For more information, visit www.buildgreenschools.org.
*The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.
TerraCycle was the brainchild of Tom Szaky when he was a student at Princeton University in 2001. The company has grown from being a purveyor of worm poop fertilizer to a developer of products created from up-cycled waste. For more details, visit terracycle.
This video features children delivering important messages about new greening initiatives launched during the 2007 conference.
This is the trailer for the film, “HOME.” The entire production can be seen in HD on You Tube. Click HOMEPROJECTDE.
The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School produced this 10-minute film that reconnects audiences to the importance of the marine environment for all life on Earth.
Lightweight, checkout-style plastic bags are now banned in South Australia. We Americans use 100 billion plastic checkout bags per year(producing them takes 12 million barrels of oil).
On October 11, 2004, 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from the Alaskan Tundra, North, South and Central America, Africa, and Asia gathered at Tibet House’s Menla Mountain Retreat to form a global alliance; to work together to serve both their common goals and their specific local concerns. Women of both prayer and women of action, they have agreed to be part of a network to rebalance the injustices wrought from an imbalanced world. They are now the subject of a feature documentary – For The Next 7 Generations – which is being screened this month in Pennsylvania and New York. For more information, visit forthenext7generations.com.
The vegetarian restaurant Hiltl is responsible for the catering of an open-air cinema in Zurich. The online titles in their commercial read : Cinema wouldn’t be the same without our fresh vegetarian snacks.
TRUCK FARM is a Wicked Delicate film + food project. Combining green roof technology, organic compost + heirloom seeds, we are creating a living story about growing a little food in a big city. Each “episode” is a partial excerpt of a larger film project, slated for completion in fall 2009. Visit www.wickedelicate.com to learn more, and stay tuned!
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
Seed Hunter is a highly entertaining one-hour documentary about a topic that’s vital for the future of our planet – finding the little seeds that may help save the world from its greatest ever crisis – a global food shortage brought about by human-induced climate change.
Flow is a 2008 documentary film directed by Irena Salina. It examines the global water crisis and presents a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply.
Joel Salatin’s Polyface, Inc. is “a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. “We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture. Writing, speaking, and farm tours offer various message venues.”
Joel plays a major part in Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma and can be seen in the documentary, Food, Inc.
Keep California Beautiful has launched this public service announcement to encourage people not to trash the beach. Okay?
Client: Keep California Beautiful
Agency: BBDO West Prod Company: Tool of North Am
Namaste: Peligro Films
No Impact Man’s #One Recommended Eco-Lifestyle Change: Stop eating beef. Worldwide, beef production contributes more substantially to climate change than the entire transportation sector. Plus, a diet with no or less beef is better for you anyway.
You can read No Impact Man’s entire Top Ten Recommended Eco-Lifestyle Changes list at noimpactman.typepad.com.
Hat Tip: Mike Wagner
RelightNY began about two years ago when high school freshman, Avery Hairston and 10 of his classmates began educating the public about the benefits of CFL bulbs. Since then, the RelightNY team has raised significant contributions from corporations and individuals. With those donations, the team has been able to buy and distribute nearly 30,000 energy efficient light bulbs (CFLs) to low-income families in all 5 boroughs of NYC. You can form a team and adopt a building or support them in other ways at relightny.com.
So far, 54 RelightNY teams have: adopted 609 NYC buildings, changed 111,283 bulbs, eliminated 21,811,468 lbs of CO2 emissions, saved New York City $5,497,380.20 in energy costs.*
(*estimate for lifetime savings per bulb based on 3 hours per day usage in New York.)
Light bulb photo: Originally uploaded by purplemattfish
NoPark returns “no parking zones” — mostly those associated fire hydrant placement — to low growth mosses and grasses. These microparks prevent storm water run off, use foliage to stabilize the soil, and to provide a durable low maintenance surface cover. They continue to provide emergency parking space for fire trucks but the other 99.9% of the time they capture more water than green roofs, capture the oily runoff from the road before it runs into the river, recharge and replenish soil moisture reduce the number of standing water pools that are left for days, which are the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes.
NOTE: The Environmental Health Clinic develops and prescribes locally optimized and often playful strategies to effect remediation of environmental systems, producing measurable and mediagenic evidence and coordinating diverse projects to effective material change. Okay, ignore what you’ve just read and just click HERE to visit their site. You won’t regret it.
* Elliot DiMauro was a character in the 1997 television series, “Just Shoot Me.”
Earthkeeper hero Christopher Swain is swimming 1000 miles from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. to draw attention to waters filled with industrial chemicals, heavy metals, oil slicks, and raw sewage, while launching projects with classrooms to improve the health of our oceans.
You can follow Chris at changents.com, an organization that connects Agents of Change with a fan base of “Backers” around the world, enabling them to create change together.
British university student and designer, Emily Cummins, was named Female Innovator of the Year in 2007 by the British Female Inventors and Innovators Network, and has been shortlisted for Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Ultimate Women of The Year Awards. Her latest innovation is a refrigerator that cools completely without electricity. The fridge is already in use in Africa (where she gave away the design for free).
Namaste: worldchanging.com
“Water security links together food, energy, climate, economic growth and human security challenges, which the world economy will face over the next two decade. The world is now on the verge of water bankruptcy in many places with no way of paying the debt back.”
For more information about the global water crisis, visit circleofblue.org.
Europe’s first commercially operating power station generates 11 Megawatts (MW) of electricity without emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas. Ultimately, the entire plant should generate as much power as is used by the 600,000 people of Seville, Spain.
More information here.
Food, Inc. (Magnolia Pictures)
Director: Robert Kenner
Cast: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser
Plot: An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry.
LazyEnvironmentalist.com is a resource for people who want to easily and enjoyably green their lives. We recognize that one thing almost of us do everyday is shop. Consuming products is intrinsically tied to the very fabric of our lifestyles. Reducing the impact of our consumption on the planet while still maintaining the quality of our lives is where The Lazy Environmenalist comes in. Our website features informative articles, videos, and specific green product recommendations intended to help really busy people figure out which green choices to make. It’s also the online home of environmental author and television and radio host Josh Dorfman whose new TV series – The Lazy Environmentalist – airs on Sundance Channel beginning in June.
Reminding us that plants support human life, Jonathan Drori shares the vision of the Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant species.
Namaste: Dawn Baillie
TED Website: http://www.ted.com/
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- In praise of … the Millennium Seed Bank (guardian.co.uk)
Hat Tip: Thanks, Dawn.
For information and inspiration, visit: veteransgreenjobs.org/
Organic agricultural production benefits the environment by using earth-friendly agricultural methods and practices. And Hammy “proves” organic tastes better, too.
$50M Funding For Farmers To Go Organic! (friendseat.com)
Summer Oakes, who is known as “the world’s first eco-model, is a tireless advocate for environmental issues, and she is unapologetic about using her assets “to make a difference.” She has a degree in environmental science and entomology from Cornell University, is a Udall environmental scholar, and has just published a book, Style, Naturally, the Savvy Shopping Guide to Sustainable Fashion and Beauty. “Everything I work on in modeling is about partnering with environmentally sound companies,” said Oakes, who was named a “Global Citizen” by Vanity Fair in 2007.
Hat tip: vancouversun.com
Make 18 minutes and 16 seconds. When you’re sure you can spare them, watch the following video – Monday’s only post. Don’t let anything or anyone interrupt you.
Inspired by a first-grade teacher who taught that people in Africa had difficulty getting clean water and access to wells, six year-old Ryan Hreljac, made a deal with his parents. A year after performing extra chores and doing a little fundraising, he had amassed $2,000 and in January, 1999, a well was built at the Angolo Primary School in northern Uganda.
Ten years later, Ryan’s work continues through the Ryan’s Well Foundation which has so far built 502 wells in sixteen countries serving a total of 621,712 people.
Yuyun Ismawati is one of this year’s recipients of the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work related to the growing challenges of trash on small islands, where trash storage space is scarce and poses an obvious threat to the land and community.
These commercials were produced for MTV in 1990. Time flies, the situation remains pretty much the same.
When he was nine, Alex had co-created a community service team called Westerly Innovations Network (WIN) and it seemed fitting to motivate his team to tackle E-Waste. Thus, Project WIN ’05 was born. Alex’s leadership and dedication contributed to a slew of amazing accomplishments including a recycling drive which collected 21,000 pounds of E-Waste and the creation of a permanent E-Waste receptacle in town, which has collected more than 60,000 pounds of waste.
In 2004, Guster guitarist and vocalist Adam Gardner and his wife Lauren Sullivan co-founded Reverb, an organization that educates and engages musicians and their fans to promote environmental sustainability. Since its inception, the group has worked with (among others), Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, and Guster who this week, embarked on their fourth annual Campus Consciousness Tour (click here for details and tour itinerary).
Blue Avocado lives here.
San Francisco Chronicle writer, Justin Berton, reminds us that the charming and oddly romantic video of a floating plastic bag in the film American Beauty would be pure catastrophe in the eyes of an oceanographer.
“In reality, the rogue bag would float into a sewer, follow the storm drain to the ocean, then make its way to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that’s twice the size of Texas.” Read the complete article here.
Remedee is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping young people discover their voices through media. The organizers believe that young men and women are capable of telling profound stories about their world. In this short film, Jacie Lemon and Sharett Brooks take an airboat tour of the Louisiana wetlands to learn about the consequences of the MRGO industrial canal.
With 26 time lapse cameras in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Canada, and Glacier National Park, the Extreme Ice Survey – founded by photographer James Balog – is creating the most comprehensive photographic survey of glacial change as it happens. Behold:
Headline Quote: Ancient Native American Proverb
