Friday, April 22, 2011

Organic News 04-22-11


Students learn about organic living at Northridge
Accent
NUTRITION INFORMATION -Speaker Harvey Kitzman gives tips for healthier living while Laura Alarcon listens on. Northridge Student Activity Advisory Board (SAAB) hosted the event Organic Living on a Budget where students got information on living more ...
Buy fresh organic produce and help feed the hungry
Florida Today
Photo courtesy of A New York Pizza House Fresh Box Organics, an Indian Harbour Beach organic food delivery service, has teamed with Living Social deal-of-the-day website to help the Daily Bread. Living Social will offer a $25 box of Fresh Box Organics ...
Master Gardeners, Organic Farmers, and CIA Trained Chef Offer Workshops During ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
More than 50 workshops pack the three week festival schedule with many promoting the theme of living green through gardening and harvesting practices, do-it-yourself projects, and appreciating local foods, wines and brews. Green Heron Growers, organic ...
Earth Day exemplars: Local companies focus on organic growing
The Record-Courier
by Scott Neuffer In celebration of the good Earth, Carson Valley residents don't have to look far to find families and businesses raising the bar of green living. At Plant It Nursery in Gardnerville, organic growing has become a lifestyle. ...
ET, Call Us Back! Making the Case for Alien Life
TIME
Back in the 1950's, Bada's mentor, Stanley Miller, had probed the origin of life by passing electricity through a vial of organic chemicals to see what came out. Miller's published experiments were flawed. But Bada has re-examined some of Miller's ...
Under the Nile's Organic Toys Bring Hope to Rural Villages
PR Web (press release)
Through its “13 Villages Project,” Under the Nile is doing more than providing healthy toys for customers- it is providing healthier living conditions for impoverished communities in Egypt. The 13 Villages Project, which takes place in thirteen rural ...
A St. Petersburg couple learns no-impact living can have a big impact
Tampabay.com
One expert estimates there are hundreds of thousands of families living "off the grid," without need for utility companies or water providers. They grow organic crops on community-supported farms. They compost all their waste. They install solar panels ...


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Sunflower Farmers Market plans OKC store
NewsOK.com
The market will feature fresh local produce, all-natural meats and seafood, a large bulk selection and a deli, plus natural living health and wellness products. Sunflower Farmers Market, a full-service natural and organic grocer that touts its “serious ...
Buying green products a good way to celebrate Earth Day
NorthJersey.com
Sporting a flower on the front, the Bamjamz Luscious Lily V-Neck Tee is made with bamboo viscose/organic cotton/spandex. Save a trip to the office supply store with The Seven Year Pen by Seltzer, which has a long-life tip and a jumbo ink cartridge ...
Hydroponic farm in Eustis to hold open house
Orlando Sentinel
... built a 2200-square-foot greenhouse with about 5000 hydroponic plants and made it a farm, which she calls Living Towers. "We've had a phenomenal response," she said of the farm, which supplies organic cooperatives and food banks in Lake. ...