Food: We Are What We Eat
Can a Carrot Set Off a Revolution? Throughout the Omega Center for Sustainable Living conference Seeds of Change: Cultivating the Commons, this quote from the French artist Paul Cézanne was featured prominently on the back wall of Omega’s Main Hall: “The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.” […]
EarthTalk’s Lauren Owens interviews Hauke Kite-Powell of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) on how aquaculture is taking on an increasingly important role in feeding humanity in the face of climate change, drought and other environmental problems…
Knutur Rafn Armann, Managing Director and owner of the Fridheimer Greenhouse, which provides 18 percent of the local tomatoes in Iceland. EarthTalk: Hi, I’ve just been eating your tomato soup, which is the most delicious I’ve ever had, and I just want to ask you, because one doesn’t think of tomatoes and Iceland together. So why tomatoes […]
Looking for magic medicines in drugstores? There is always a sustainable option. Check out this ancient superfruit that has been rediscovered worldwide, assuring that nature is an endless pharmacy just for free. Maqui (Aristotelia chilensis) is a small shrub that can get 4 or 5 meters high; it is native from the Andean-Patagonia forest zones […]
