We all know that buying local food is better for the environment, and better for building social capital. Or so we thought…why is it that economic geographer Pierre Desrochers believes that food miles and the 100 mile diet are a marketing fad? He believes they distort the environmental impacts of our food systems and detract [...]
September 24, 2009 – Local foods
September 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Food · International development · Sustainable living
February 26, 2009 – Farming in Ontario Part 2 and Project Blue
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Matt Street continues his look into alternative agriculture in Ontario in an interview with John Vanden Heuvel from World Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming (WWOOF) Canada and a discussion of opportunities for interns who want to learn about organic agriculture by working on organic farms. John Wall brings us an interview with Abner Lico and [...]
Organic Farming in Ontario [13:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Jane Goodall Institute Roots and Shoots Project Blue [11:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Conservation · Food · Sustainable living · Water
February 19, 2009 – Farming in Ontario and Green Stimulus
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In this week’s show Matt Street brings us an interview with CRAFT, a network of Ontario farmers which facilitates internships for young people interested in learning and doing organic agriculture. Carol Hunsberger reports from Nairobi on a United Nations Environment Programme summit looking at how economic stimulus packages around the world could be used to [...]
CRAFT - Farming in Ontario [11:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Green Economic Stimulus: UNEP [8:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Africa · Economics · Food · International development · Sustainable living