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I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.” This is just plain wrong. Read more: Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? – NYTimes.com [...]
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“Got some worms down here!” says my brother Noah at the beginning of this video. CBS 2 News covered the work he’s doing with Cob Connection: Growing food. Working in the soil. Bringing trees to Chicago neighborhoods, one block at a time. That’s the focus of one inner-city organization with a garden in one of [...]
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Very cool comparison of the old and new logos. Some are progressive, some are underwhelming, some are downright stupid. My analysis: Kraft had one of the most solidly recognizable brands in existence, but modified their logo not once but twice in ’09. Sony did the smart thing and finally dropped the spelled out version of [...]
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Wired has a very cool little article that visualizes each “sin” on a map of our great nation: We’re gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly [...]
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We’ve been hearing about the medical cost of eating cheap food from our mothers for decades, and from Morgan Spurlock since 2004. Book-movies like “Fast Food Nation” and “Food, Inc.” have delved into the environmental effects of cheap food from how mega-farming poisons our land and threatens genetic diversity, to the working conditions that endanger [...]
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