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Slow Eggs from Native Chicken Get Attention Again

3:32 am in 100 mile diet, agriculture, awards, birds, Design & Architecture, eggs, food, Food & Health, food miles, local food, organic agriculture, spain by TreeHugger

laVinyeta outocton local eggs photo Image Credit: Lluís Serra Pla In and around Barcelona slow food and local delicatessen have become quite the thing lately. Projects like the slow food restaurant Fastvínic or the happy pig farm Finca del Saüc are popping up like mushrooms. Via the blog Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Study Comparing Local To Meat-Free Diet Is Dated and Debunked

3:35 pm in 100 mile diet, food, food miles, local food by TreeHugger

foodmiles-original-study.jpg Note date on original study, linked to in articles All the blogs are writing about a Harvard Business Review story by Andrew Winston, titled Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story ; even our Rachel picked it up with New Study: Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet. There are are, however, a couple of problems; a) the study on which the article is based ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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ROCK REUSE RECYCLE at Rock-A-Field Festival

3:22 am in 100 mile diet, alternative energy, bottled water, concerts, Culture & Celebrity, europe, events, luxembourg, music, public transportation, Take Action, waste by TreeHugger

Rock-a-field festival photo Last weekend I experienced what was for me the greenest music festival so far. And not only because at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg you actually get to rock a lush green field surrounded by dense forest. The organisers of RAF also set an example of how to lower the environmental impact of 18,000-plus festival goers and 15 bands (amongst which Arcade Fire and the Arctic Monkeys) without s...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Edward Glaeser Phones In The Old Arguments Against Local Agriculture

12:48 pm in 100 mile diet, Food & Health, local food by TreeHugger

royal york roof Urban Farming on a Rooftop, 34 stories high. Image Credit Lloyd Alter Economist and author Edward Glaeser enjoys contradicting popular wisdom; I reported on his trashing of Jane Jacobs earlier; now he writes in the Boston Globe that Urban farms do more harm than good to the environment. In it he trots out the usual arguments against local food: ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Slow Food Gets Fast, Meets Good Design at Fastvinic, an Eco-Cozy Sandwich Shop

9:44 am in 100 mile diet, bathroom, composting, decorating, Design & Architecture, designers, dining room, energy efficiency, food, Food & Health, food miles, green building, interiors, leed, local food, materials, recycled building materials, restaurant, shelving, spain, storage, toilets by TreeHugger

fastvinic green interior design restaurant local food photo Image Credit: Fastvínic The other day I had a delicious local sandwich in the fabulous new space Fastvínic in Barcelona. It seems the Catalan capital has finally got a place where fast slow food meets good design (and not hippyness). What's on the menu? Sandwiches. What's around you? Beautiful <...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Design Goes On The 100 Mile Diet

11:35 am in 100 mile diet, Design & Architecture, icff by TreeHugger

100 mile diet design photo Images credit Lloyd Alter The 100 Mile Diet has been a meme on TreeHugger for a few years now, so it is fitting that that is the theme of a joint project of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) on the east coast and the University of Washington (UW) on the west. TreeHugger emeritus Domenic Murren describes the problem: "Participants sourced sustainable materials from a 100-mile radius - and energy sources in keeping with the same circumscribed theme - to develop prototypes that address profound questions of place, production, climate, and culture."...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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