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I'll have a lovely, spring-green recipe coming your way soon, but in the meantime, let's take a quick look at a different kind of green. In celebration of Earth Day, here are some links to help you get your earth love on. Happy browsing!
KQED's Bay Area Bites has a list of things you can do to make your kitchen a little less wasteful and a little more environmentally friendly. If you're already doing most (or all) of the things on the list, give yourself a pat on the back. If not, perhaps you'll learn something new. Everybody wins!
iPhone-wielding fans of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch now have a handy way of keeping Seafood Watch's sustainable seafood recommendations handy: a free iPhone app with region-specific seafood information determined by your phone's GPS function.
If you haven't seen Food, Inc., do. Seriously. It's an eye-opening, heart-breaking, blood-pressure-raising 90 minutes chock full of information on where our food originates. Netflix account holders can have it streamed to their tv or computer.
I doubt that anyone reading this blog doesn't know where to find locally grown produce, but just in case, U.S. readers can find a wealth of local market and producer information through Local Harvest.
This isn't food-related, but NASA/Goddard's Flickr photostream has some pretty neat images of this blue planet of ours.
And finally, also not food-related but filed under "neato," some awe-inspiring new images of the star that makes it all possible: our sun.
Anything to add? Drop your links in comments. Happy Earth Day!
3 comments:
Sig got Food,Inc. (as a free DVD in the newspaper) when I was away. I'm looking forward to seeing it. My parents saw it last year and my mom said that it totally changed her meat-buying (and eating) habits.
I was SO aware of the general wastefulness and throw-away quality of life in Houston. (You probably live in a more evolved, conscientious place.) One of our friends said that his workplace did an Earth Day celebration . . . and that they offered up ice cream in styrofoam bowls! As they say in educator-lingo, I think someone missed a "teachable moment" with that one. So sad.
Sigh! Teachable moment indeed. There are still a lot of disposable containers/dishes/utensils around here, too (not styrofoam, but not compost-friendly either). Fortunately some restaurants are coming around to using, if not compostable, then at least recyclable containers and utensils for take-away food.
Of course, compostable isn't a lot of help if one doesn't have a compost pile/bin. I wish that my city would take a page from some other cities' books and institute a curbside recycling program. I feel awful throwing all those useful fruit and vegetable scraps in the trash!
The Prasouda diet is a diet type that comes from the Mediterranean area, that is focused on eating right for total well being. It is touted as being more than a weight loss diet but a total lifestyle change. The prasouda diet is more commonly known as the Mediterranean diet, and is a stand alone diet meaning that other supplements are not being used while on the program. This diet focuses on eating plenty of fresh vegetables, fruits, and fish. There are no meal replacements or other type of food supplements that are taken while on this diet.
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