Posted in Food, tagged clipping, coupons, food crisis, health, marketing, nutrition, processed food, sustainability on November 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
With less money to spend every month, many Americans are turning to coupons to stretch their food budget. Last weekend, I decided to join the ranks, and sat down at my kitchen table, armed with scissors and the two inserts from our Sunday paper. And started clipping away.
I decided to separate the coupons into three [...]
Posted in Food, tagged food crisis, food supply, Green Psychology, overpopulation, sustainability, values on August 21, 2008 | 18 Comments »
I saw the few raisins left behind, in their original Whole Foods plastic bag. Flashed to Green Guru, and imagined him going through the pain of retrieving each one, so that none would go to waste. Nah! Why bother? A few raisins in the garbage, did not measure up with the inconvenience of separating the [...]
Posted in Food, tagged bottled water, coupon clipping, food crisis, food prices, food waste, green, green living, home gardening, smart grocery listing, sustainability, tap water on August 3, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Faced with rising food prices, and shrinking wallets, citizens are becoming increasingly resourceful. Sunday’s Washington Post has an article on the unprecedented growth of home gardening in America. A $20 return in produce, for every dollar spent on seeds, is a hard number to ignore. Even I, whose nature did not bless with a green [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged food crisis, green living, Mother Earth, nature, sustainability, urban gardening on July 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was quite surprised after I returned from vacation, and found my vegetable patch, all replenished with new heads of lettuce. Could it be, I asked Prad? Yes, it’s true, you can keep on tearing off leaves and they grow back.
Nature is truly Mother to us. No need to waste our paychecks on industrially grown [...]
Posted in Green Psychology, tagged bees problem, climate change, food crisis, future, Global warming, green, oil addiction, peak oil, sustainability, uprisings, water shortage on July 16, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Chaos is scary. When faced with uncertainty and doom, our first reaction is to want to control. Imagine for a second, that we are still masters of the universe. And can, will whip our climate and other natural phenomena, into shape. Dammit!
Maybe now is the time, to stop deluding ourselves. Like the addicts that we [...]
Posted in Food, French Culture, tagged "French Women Don't Get Fat", "In Defense of Food", "Japan's weight loss program", food crisis, Michael Pollan, Mireille Galiano, obesity, sustainability on July 4, 2008 | 12 Comments »
No trip to Paris without a stop at Berthillon, the sherbet place in Ile Saint-Louis. While waiting in line, I cannot believe the serving sizes. Were they this small last year? One scoop for two Euros, it better be good. In the US, for the same price, I would get a huge cup, oozing with [...]
Posted in Food, Life With Green Guru, tagged Food, food crisis, food waste, sustainability, waste on May 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
No wonder I felt pangs of guilt while watching “The Ball”. The movie acted as a mirror for my outrageously wasteful lifestyle. It is no consolation to learn that I am joined by the rest of my fellow Americans. One quarter of food wasted, is a hard number to reckon. This is to add to [...]
Posted in Green Psychology, Solutions, tagged agriculture, agriculture research, energy, energy research, food crisis, Green Psychology, infrastructure, nation building, overspending, sustainability on May 18, 2008 | 20 Comments »
We are failing to invest in critical energy and agriculture research. We are letting our infrastructure fall apart. We are spending as if there is no tomorrow. We continue to drive as if there was no global warming. We are gorging ourselves despite warnings from our doctors. We focus on quarterly earnings at the expense [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged climate change, contraception, family planning, food crisis, Robert Engelman, sustainability, women, world population, Worldwatch on May 11, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Women all over the world have struggled for centuries with the fundamental need to control when they bear child. Even in developed countries as here in America, access to contraception is only relatively recent, and a right that is constantly being threatened under pretexts of religion and morality. As a woman, nothing pushes my buttons [...]
