Thursday, May 5, 2011

Organic News 5-5-11


Recycle, build a 'canjo,' and take in free music
Hometownlife.com
Green Street Fair, Inc. was founded to help educate and inform people of all ages about the benefits of green, organic, and eco-friendly products and services. To promote global interest and personal well-being, the Green Street Fair blends companies, ...

SUSTAINABLE LIVING- Celebrate Mother Earth and Mom This Year
San Fernando Valley Sun
His company, Organic Bouquet, is one of the companies trying to establish a niche market for organic flowers in the US market. Another green entrepreneur, Josh Dautoff in Watsonville, Calif., converted his parents' chemically reliant fields and ...
The non-organic future
Marketplace
As most others, I found the NoN Organic Food story prejudiced, poorly researched and very disappointing. Many important points have been made by others. What I will add to the conversation is the idea of vertical farming: high rise farms for living and ...

Marketplace
Make a Green Mom Happy
Patch.com
Fresh, local and organic food is the start of a chain of events that help our planet greatly from less shipping to less packaging, waste and garbage, not to mention the support to local farmers and the health benefits of eating local, seasonal food. ...
Grow, harvest, sell & swap
Vancouver Sun
However, for Anna-Monique West, a designer and gardener living in the vibrant, small-town neighbourhood of Inglewood in Calgary, there was something she couldn't find. Like many of us, West had decided that she would begin to live closer to the earth: ...

" Top Ten Planets"
411mania.com
Its lush greenery, elaborate landscapes, and near mystical organic inhabitants are a wonder to behold and breathtaking to see come to life. Pandora is as much a character in the film as the humans and Na'vi. After their defeat at the end of Star Wars: ...


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South Hill artist finds inspiration in transposing elements
The Spokesman Review
Upon entering Michael Sherriffs Hall's South Hill home, you are at once transported into a gallery of strange landscapes where even the figurative pieces appear organic. In the main living room, more than a dozen square canvases, some stacked by threes ...
The Resource Center's RECREATE: A Celebration of Urban Life
ChicagoPride.com
The evening will be a celebration of all things green, featuring Hors D'oeuvres courtesy of prasino, an eco-friendly restaurant with an emphasis on seasonal, locally-grown organic fare, which already has locations in St. Charles and LaGrange ...
  

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Organic News 5-4-11


Kosher Organic Sweet Treats Are Also Eco-Friendly
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Both dads were committed to feeding their children only healthy, hormone-free organic foods, and each struggled to find snacks and desserts that qualified without tasting like cardboard. Originally from Mexico City, Bica was living in Los Angeles with ...


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A living lesson on bamboo
San Luis Obispo Tribune
If you have heavy clay soil, add organic material when planting, or mulch heavily to attract earthworms. Because bamboo is a forest plant, it does best with a layer of mulch over its roots and rhizomes. You can simply allow fallen leaves to collect at ...

“I Heard That”: SFJAZZ Presents Living Legend BUDDY GUY; The STANDBY; Glen ...
Beyond Chron
Mingled with festival-goers, cheered by the laughter of playful children; observed the many booths selling art, jewelry; enjoyed LUMPIA (SOOO good) from HAPA SF, Modern organic Filipino cuisine, served from the Filipino mobile van, parked at Diamond ...

Beyond Chron
Rio Ferdinand – red devil turned unlikely green guru
The Guardian
"We grow organic food in the garden," he says, "we've got a little vegetable garden with a greenhouse where we grow tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and strawberries." Any tips for other green-fingered types? "Tomatoes are the easiest. Green beans as well. ...

Sunflower Farmers Market Enhances Online Strategy To Engage
Grocery Retail Online
Sunflower Farmers Market offers a variety of natural and organic foods through its store departments, including a Fruits and Vegetables Department that is home to a variety of seasonal, specialty, and local produce; a Meat and Fish Department that ...
Family Roundup: How to Get Out of the School Lunch Slump
Patch.com
She is also the co-producer and host of the popular on-line cooking show, Cookus Interruptus, which shows how to cook family-pleasing meals from organic ingredients, despite life's interruptions. She recommends bento box style containers including ...

Researchers create perfect Texas lawn
Austin News
"You really want to get a good six inches of loose soil with a bit of organic matter and a good quality compost and then put your seed on top of that." In order to properly create this lawn it means tearing out the grass that is currently covering your ...

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Organic News 5-03-11


Grower prepares a living legacy
Stuff.co.nz
SLICES OF HEAVEN: Dieter Proebst prepares samples of more than 100 varieties of apples for what was likely to be the last tasting day at his organic orchard. Treedimensions, the Motueka organic orchard business which has been dedicated to preserving ...

Stuff.co.nz
Practically Green: Bring lawn back to life using natural techniques
Memphis Commercial Appeal
This is why most people shy away from organic lawn care. There's no broadleaf weed killer. But, if I follow the program, (chop off their heads in the spring and make my soil and grass happy enough to choke the life out of future generations) weeds may ...
Organic Oscar™ Launches All-Natural Organic Dog Grooming Products Unique to ...
Business Wire (press release)
“We wanted to create a line of products that reflect a healthy and holistic lifestyle for ourselves and our dogs,” said Marie Svet, co-founder of Organic Oscar™. “Because I was committed to living a healthy life, I naturally went in search of pet ...
Neo-Network: Mimi's Organic Exchange
Chicagoist
After a chance conversation about proactive and holistic approaches to health and living, Clayton decided that people did not just need a network, but an organic one. By definition, organic is “of, relating or derived from living organisms. ...
Down-to-earth info and ideas at Green Earth Fair in Naperville
Chicago Sun-Times
“We always have presentations about nutritional issues and how to better feed ourselves as well as becoming more 'green' in our daily living,” Tiwald said. “Every year, people also enjoy our organic gardening and lawn care presentations as well as ...
Is it really a Gaudí?
Archinect
It cannot overcome the central paradox, which is that Gaudí's architecture was organic, living and responsive, whereas posthumous simulation of his ideas makes them fixed and lifeless. The fusion, the melting, the integration of structure and ornament ...

Assisted Living Websites: Optify Study Shows Higher Rankings are Key
SeniorHomes.com
But if you're not immersed in SEO or SEM on a day-to-day basis, you may not have given thought to how all these changes affect your organic CTR (Click-Through-Rate). That's okay, because the folks at Optify have—in fact, they've given a lot of thought ...
Frugal Family: Deals You Won't Want to Miss
Patch.com
Right now you can get $35 worth of beautiful flowers from FTD for just $15 at Living Social. Friends, this deal is not just for the men in the house. Don't forget your moms, mother-in-laws and grandmothers either. Organic Baby: Also at Living Social ...

Shanghai Organic
China International Business
Adding to the challenge, Zhang and his 10 employees also struggled to convince the local farmers he employs, who make a living by selling their crops, to 'rest' the land for three years. "That was our biggest challenge in the beginning, ...


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A moving crescendo
Independent Online
Yet, at the best of times it's problematic to trans-form this into a stirring, and more specifically, into an organic drama with many dimensions and layers, which is at the same time artistically a truly operatic entity. One cannot bypass the art ...


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Monday, May 2, 2011

Organic News 5-02-11


Market@Masdar City showcases eco-living
Khaleej Times
Masdar City, designated by Etihad Airways as an 'Essential Abu Dhabi Tourist Destination', hosted 'The Market @ Masdar City' to give visitors a taste of eco-living. The programme, first-of-a-kind, family-focused street fair and organic market, ...

Bamboo spun with harsh chemicals to make textiles
Toronto Star
“Soma Organic Mattresses wants everyone to enjoy the Bamboo Experience by visiting our booth at the Green Living Show in Toronto April 15-17,” read the online invitation at somasleep.wordpress.com, before last weekend's consumer exhibit at the Direct ...
Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand
Astrobiology Magazine
The controversial Viking experiment caused NASA to turn to the basics, and look for the liquid water and organic molecules that life on Earth needs for its survival. That's been the focus of missions like the Phoenix lander, the Mars Exploration Rovers ...

Astrobiology Magazine
Seeds of change: New farmers running smaller operations invigorate Maine's ...
Mainebiz Daily
In 2002, they enrolled in the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association journeyperson program, a two-year training, mentoring and business-planning course for prospective farmers. After farming stints in Cape Elizabeth and Cumberland, ...
PRESS TRIP INVITATION TO ITALY: ORGANIC FARM, INN & COOKING SCHOOL WITH WINE ...
TravPR.com (press release)
Experience Slow Food & Slow Travel, living as the locals and enjoy the culture, food & wine of undiscovered Le Marche. Including a VIP wine tour and "farm to fork" cooking classes and stay at an organic farm, inn & Cooking School in Central Italy. ...
Are we nearly there yet? Family sell everything they own to travel 8000 miles ...
Daily Mail
Author Nicole came up with the idea to document their journey for a book on the secrets of organic farming. Due to be published in 2012, The Organic Farmer's Sourcebook will be aimed at helping new farmers succeed in creating their own successful farms ...

Daily Mail
Show her the money
Sydney Morning Herald
My expenses were all the things that made daily, upper-middle-class family life possible: piano lessons, organic strawberries, martial arts classes, swimming lessons, birthday parties. My then husband was (and still is) a lawyer with a corporate legal ...

Sydney Morning Herald