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- Food, inc., the future of food, and waste = food
There is only one thing to say about the documentary "Food, Inc. Watch the trailer, see the film, and then decide for yourself what you think about the food you eat, how food is farmed, how livestock becomes the meat you eat, and the future of our food.
Thanks to award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner, food advocates and investigative journalists Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, and Michael Pollan, author of "Omnivore's Dilemma," and socially concerned farming entrepreneurs such as Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, we have an up-to-date look at the food industry that is feeding us all and how it is regulated.
For further information, and especially if you are organically conscious or gastronomically ambitious, watch the documentary The Future of Food either on Google Video or YouTube or, buy the film.
You might also be interested in a documentary […]Posted by Beverly Spicer June 28, 2009
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- Houses of the holy
Once upon a time, notably before the Renaissance, and as evidenced for instance in massive, phenomenal cathedrals of Medieval times, there was the "master builder," who both designed and supervised everything connected with the building of architectural structures of the day. The finished product was the sole vision of the master builder, and the result was a highly coherent […]Posted by Beverly Spicer June 21, 2009
- Florida man shoots spaceship from his car!
OK, so he shot it with a camera and the spaceship was the Shuttle Atlantis. It isn't an alien spaceship nor even an UFO, but George Fetter got some great shots. (Click on the image here for a closeup, and be sure to note the bird on the lefthand side.) […]Posted by Larry Sessions June 7, 2009
- Salt: one man on the earth in the universe
My friend and photographer Zigy Kaluzny had an older brother who lived in Australia for many years. […]Posted by Beverly Spicer May 21, 2009
- Cellulose: Promise and Peril
As you may or may not know, in the last five or so years there's been a […]Posted by Jeremy Shere May 19, 2009
- Pink Flamingos, by Tony Beckwith
PINK FLAMINGOS by Tony Beckwith
At the bottom of the garden
under the eaves
near the palm festooned […]Posted by Beverly Spicer May 14, 2009
- The future Nobel lauretes of the world
- This week, I’m in Reno for the International Science and Engineering Fair. You know your out-of-the-box volcano experiments you showed off for your teachers at […]
Posted by Lindsay Patterson May 13, 2009
- Algae Energy
Could algae be a key to our energy future?
I ask because I've been talking with some folks […]Posted by Jeremy Shere May 12, 2009
- 2045: the coming singularity and full-blown, conscious machines
Right now we are getting our information in bits and pieces from everywhere. It can seem […]Posted by Beverly Spicer May 9, 2009
- Crops for electricity would yield more transport miles than ethanol
A new study shows that burning […]Posted by Dan Kulpinski May 8, 2009
- A history of the nuclear age precedes a nuclear renaissance
- A couple of weeks ago, just as I started researching an upcoming series on nuclear energy, a book on the history of nuclear power landed […]
Posted by Lindsay Patterson May 7, 2009
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- Pink Flamingos, by Tony Beckwith
- The future Nobel lauretes of the world
- Algae Energy
- 2045: the coming singularity and full-blown, conscious machines
- Crops for electricity would yield more transport miles than ethanol
- A history of the nuclear age precedes a nuclear renaissance
- Swine flu preparedness - I vote yes
- Did water shortages contribute to swine flu?
- Do all roads lead to politics?
- Wired for hubble
