I’m a vegetarian and have been for many years now. Even so, I can respect cuisine of all varieties (even if I don’t eat it)–of the carnivorous persuasion and otherwise. It’s shocking, however, to consider the variety of disgusting processed byproducts our fast-food nation passes off as food–especially to our children. Jamie Oliver demonstrates this [...]
have a nugget of something
April 24th, 2011
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Tags: child development · cooking · food · health · social responsibility · sustainability · television · video
feed your family (healthfully) for only $2.90
March 21st, 2011
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Recently in one of my classes we were discussing food and our ecological footprint on the world. One topic that kept resurfacing was how many of my students would love to buy more organic foods but the cost is just too high. Not only is the price not right, the other main argument that many [...]
Tags: economics · food · health · sustainability
ikigai and living to be a hundred
January 7th, 2010
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Another fine video from TED came across my desk today, and it struck a chord with me. It’s entitled How to live to be 100+ and the speaker is Dan Buettner–a National Geographic writer and explorer who studies the world’s longest-lived peoples. Dan Buettner on How to Live to Be a Hundred+ Now, I’m not [...]
Tags: happiness · health · learning · spirituality · world culture
