Thursday, July 13, 2006
Global Village Overview
2010 Goal: Ethically Produced Foods to Tip Market Majority
ELIST, Apr 23, 2006 (Goodwork reference to Ecofacilitation) – Ecofacilitation (in the Netherlands) is an organization comprising environmentally conscious, socially responsible producer groups, wholesalers, and retailers that are working together to drastically increase the flow of organic, ethically produced foods to world markets. EcoFacilitation was founded by a group of European and American organic pioneers who, in 2003, began researching the factors influencing supply and demand of organic and fairly traded food in the current supply chains. By 2010, Ecofacilitation aims to get 50% of
How to Make Your Own Low-Cost Solar Food Dryer
BOOK Reference, May 16, 2006 (New Society Books, Eben Fodor) - The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long - with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography - wherever gardens grow - http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3900.
Eat Your View
VIRGINIA, USA, May/June 2006 (Mother Jones, Michael Pollan) - According to Joel Salatin, a Virginia farmer, a revolution against industrial agriculture is just down the road. The reformation of our food economy begins with people going to the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know—“relationship marketing,” that believes that the only meaningful guarantee of integrity is when buyers and sellers can look one another in the eye, something few of us ever take the trouble to do. The total economy, astounding in its ability to absorb every challenge, is well on its way to transforming organic food from a reform movement into an industry—another flavor in the global supermarket. It took capitalism less than a quarter century to turn even something as ephemeral as bagged salads of cut and washed organic mesclun, of all things, into a cheap international commodity retailed in a new organic supermarket. Salatin and his customers want to be somewhere that juggernaut can’t go, and it may be that by elevating local above organic, they have found exactly that place. By definition, local is a hard thing to sell in a global marketplace. Local food, as opposed to organic, implies a new economy as well as a new agriculture—new social and economic relationships as well as new ecological ones. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/05/no_bar_code.html
