Media Watch
Solastalgia and Irony in New Orleans
As Oil Threat Creeps Closer, a Rush on SeafoodNew York Times
6 May 2010
Kim Severson
“That marsh is really our pantry, and that’s why we are so afraid.”
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And then there are the rigs themselves, more than 3,000 of which dot the gulf. They act as reefs, attracting an extensive variety of species. Both recreational and commercial fishermen know to head toward the rigs to assure a good haul.
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In New Orleans, people are more philosophical. It is the Katrina effect, they say. Once you have lost your house and your boat, even members of your family, you learn not to worry about things you cannot control.
"52 Loaves": A Quest for the Holy Grain
NPR Weekend Edition SundayMay 2nd, 2010
William Alexander spent a year baking a loaf of bread each week in an attempt to replicate a loaf of peasant bread he once tasted. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Alexander about his new book, 52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust.
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April update on Marcellus Shale Drilling
Toxics TargetingCitizen alerts, letters, interactive map, videos of existing wells
Shifting from Tobacco to Local Food
It's not Upstate New York but it is inspirational.Durham, a Tobacco Town, Turns to Local Food
Julia Moskin
20 April 2010
Foraging for Bitter Greens
Urban Forager: A Bitter Green BouquetNew York Times, 3 April 2010
You don't have to have a seder to enjoy these greens. Just make a salad.
Next Year in the White House: A Seder Tradition
by Jodi KantorThe New York Times
March 26th, 2010
WASHINGTON — One evening in April 2008, three low-level staff members from the Obama presidential campaign — a baggage handler, a videographer and an advance man — gathered in the windowless basement of a Pennsylvania hotel for an improvised Passover Seder.
The day had been long, the hour was late, and the young men had not been home in months. So they had cadged some matzo and Manischewitz wine, hoping to create some semblance of the holiday.
Suddenly they heard a familiar voice. “Hey, is this the Seder?” Barack Obama asked, entering the room.
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Push to Eat Local Food is Hampered by Shortage
by Katie ZezimaThe New York Times
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. — Erica Zimmerman and her husband spent months pasture-raising pigs on their farm here, but when the time came to take them to slaughter, an overbooked facility canceled their appointment.
With the herd in prime condition, and the couple lacking food and space to keep them, they frantically called slaughterhouses throughout the state. After several days they found an opening, but their experience highlights a growing problem for small farmers here and across the nation: too few slaughterhouses to meet the growing demand for locally raised meat.
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The Last Supper - Supersized
Thanks for this, Annie!The Largest Last Supper
Brian Wansink
(For the art historians out there, note his reference at the beginning to a "dark and dingy art history room." Some of us spent a lot of time in those rooms, Brian!)
How a D.C. School Puts Fresh Food on the Lunch Tables
by Lisa Dobbs and Linda MooreThe Washington Post
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
In his Feb. 14 Outlook commentary, "In D.C. school cafeterias, a long way from here to healthy," Ed Bruske asked a question on the minds of nearly every school parent, from Michelle Obama on down: How do we make the transition from feeding our children industrial food filled with artificial substances to freshly prepared, whole foods that are healthy for kids? At the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Northeast, we think we've found the answer.
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Al Gore: We Can't Wish Away Climate Change
The New York TimesFebruary 27th, 2010
I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.
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