http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/ making one change every day to greenify my life (and hopefully not being too smug about it) Sat, 18 May 2013 03:38:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-62223 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:24:00 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-62223 cgXNiURjJSPCHHxsCY 9712

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-60478 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:45:09 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-60478 Very nice sharing, thanks…

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-12712 Sun, 25 May 2008 18:39:11 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-12712 Hi webmaster!

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-143 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:46:36 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-143 [...] bigger step) to giving up bottled water (great step!) and turning down the thermostat. Forever. On day 9 Vanessa is going for local food (but sometimes bananas are OK.) On day 12 Vanessa both cheats and I [...]

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-59 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:44:21 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-59 Yes, I told the cafeteria ladies from Tajikistan that I would no longer be eating their environmentally unfriendly fare, and demanded that they go forth into the hills of Afghanistan to seek out healthy organic options. Unfortunately, those hills are mined.
And the ladies from Tajikistan work for Halliburton, and Halliburton’s not so interested in sharing the wealth. I’d bet the food comes from factory farms in some distinctly red states. I’ll have to do a story on it.

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-57 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:54:10 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-57 I’ve got organic coming before local for now, but its so great to find both at great local markets. Makes you feel like you found gold. You can also feel good about eating foods that do now get sprayed with many or any pesticides. On this topic I read an article about how Walmart, to help with their continued new green conscious, is staring to restrict the distance their fresh food can travel, setting limits where they can and focusing on reducing those distances over times if possible. Not that I am in love with Walmart, but I believe they are the number 1 organic food seller in the states.

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-56 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:05:20 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-56 In friendly rebuttal to healthycookie, the Times story says: in a paper published in October in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a team from the University of California, Davis, demonstrates that organically grown tomatoes have significantly more vitamin C than conventional tomatoes. Even so, the same study shows no significant differences between conventional and organic bell peppers. “We’re just beginning to understand these relationships,” says U.C. Davis food chemist Alyson Mitchell, one of the paper’s authors. “We understand, and have understood for a long time, that there is some relation between soil health and plant quality, but we still don’t have a solid scientific database to link this to nutrition.”

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-55 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:47:56 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-55 Just for the record… it has been scientificially proven that organic is more nutrient rich and therefore healthier than conventional. One such study was done by Rutgers University setting out to disprove the belief that organic is better… but their reserach showed that it is in fact better. But yes.. local first. Organic second. Unless of course we’re talking about strawberries. Always organic strawberries.

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-54 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:38:01 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-54 Hey Joe in Kandahar! Good to know you’re still alive… I certainly hope you’re limiting yourself to a strict diet of food ONLY grown in Afghanistan.
I disagree, though — I think it’s better for the earth to have multiple small-scale local farms than a few massive ones in California. The same amount of soil would be used anyway and plowing it isn’t as bad for the environment as the trucks and planes required to distribute the food. Plus just in terms of quality and freshness, local takes the cake. Even better if you can actually visit the farms that produce your food and really get a sense of what goes into every meal.
And Emma – I’ll eventually be able to eat avocados again, when the grocery store starts carrying the ones from California (as I’m limiting myself to North America for now, not just Canada).
Oh, and Lori – awesome work on the local petroleum! Haha. Our local petroleum comes from Alberta

]]> http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-53 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:28:44 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/09/californias-practically-next-door-anyway-day-9/#comment-53 Oh, and on the light bulb front, the CFL’s are pretty painless… I have a couple of links in my blog that should help you out!

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