Keep Your Hands Off Our Strawberries

Posted on April 9, 2011

Photo by Annabelle Breakey from Gluten-Free Cupcakes Everybody loves strawberries.  At least everybody I know.  They’re an absolute favorite food in our house.  Luckily, we are fortunate enough to have access to, and can afford organic strawberries.  For those who are not so lucky, sadly, the dangers are many.  First and foremost, a toxic pesticide


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Celebrating Independence

Posted on July 1, 2008

Yesterday my son and I made the delicious strawberry sorbet pictured above. As July 4th approaches, our has been getting a real workout. It’s hotter now so we’re always looking for good frozen treats to cool us off. When I asked my older son what he thought about the sorbet, he simply said, “yum.” That


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MLK

Posted on January 20, 2008

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death”.

Why Glass?

Posted on January 8, 2008

Eight days into the New Year and it seems as though the post-holiday blues have hit. We’ve had more than our usual share of cold dark weather here in Colorado, and all I want to do is go into hibernation, sleeping day and night. Of course, that’s not what’s taking place in my reality. This


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City Survey

Posted on August 9, 2007

A debate is brewing here in Boulder about a survey that the City Council wants to send out to 3,500 citizens. The cost of the survey would be $100,000 and the results would come in just before at least 4 (though possibly 7) of our 9 incumbent council members vacate their seats. Below is a


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Fed Fights Mad Cow Testing

Posted on June 7, 2007

Creekstone Farms wants to protect your health. The USDA, however, is against this. This premium producer of high quality beef sued the USDA for denying it permission to test their cattle for mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse). Creekstone Farms has their own slaughterhouse and processing facility. They do not use


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The Terminator

Posted on June 1, 2007

I never, ever thought I’d be calling the Terminator an activist, however, Ahhhnold is my new hero. He not only sued the EPA once for failing to implement carbon dioxide regulations, he is now threatening to do so again! That’s the short of it. The whole story is quite convoluted. The EPA claimed that it


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David Steinman

Posted on May 3, 2007

David Steinman, founder of the Green Patriot movement, is an acclaimed author, environmentalist and health consumer advocate. Steinman has testified before Congress as an expert witness on the levels of chemical contaminants in the blood of persons eating locally caught fish from Southern California bays. It was his landmark study, published in the Journal of


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Carlo Petrini

Posted on April 3, 2007

The Slow Food Movement was born in Italy in1986 when Carlo Petrini organized a protest against the building of a McDonald’s in Rome. Petrini founded Slow Food International three years later, renouncing not only Fast Food, but the overall pace of Fast Life. Issuing a manifesto, the movement called for the safeguarding of local economies,


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Monica Moore

Posted on March 1, 2007

Monica Moore is a founding member of the worldwide organization Pesticide Action Network and has worked on pesticide issues for close to three decades. Although she keeps a low profile, she is a hero in the environmental movement, having received numerous awards, most recently “Advocate of Social Justice” from the Ecological Farming Association. She co-founded


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Future of Food

Posted on February 24, 2007

Did you know that farmers are being sued for growing food? Did you know that a company can purchase the genetic “patent” for a seed that has existed for thousands of years? Did you know that one company could eventually “own” all of the seeds in the world and that you could be arrested for


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Tyrone Hayes

Posted on February 1, 2007

A Rose by Any Other Name

Posted on December 9, 2006

According to Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet – 1594), “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” unless it’s not actually a rose, that is. Unfortunately, when it comes to avocados, we have a problem here. More specifically, guacamole. You see, Kraft is calling a green dip it makes “guacamole.” However, this dip is


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Fun Raiser

Posted on December 4, 2006

Some school fundraisers are very desirable –a true service to both the school and the people that buy into them. One such fundraiser is the satsuma sale at my children’s Waldorf school. I like to think of this sale as more of a fun raiser, than a fundraiser. Every year, their school, Shining Mountain organizes


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