Entries Tagged as 'Sustainability'
It’s that time of year when scenes like this unfold in our neighborhood here in the nation’s capitol: a National Park Service employee pushing leaves around the sidewalk with the most polluting device known to man–a gas-powered leaf blower. Does anybody else remember when we did this with a broom and rake? How do we […]
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Tags:compost·federal government·global warming·pollution
Call me naive, but for some reason I never expected to run into a farmer using chemical fertilizers on his produce right here in Dupont Circle, the premier farmers market in the nation’s capitol. But I couldn’t help wondering when I saw this vendor’s table groaning under the biggest, most gigantic broccoli I’d ever seen. […]
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Tags:broccoli·chemicals·farmer's markets·fertility·organic
Do read this op-ed in the New York Times in which Nicolette Hahn Niman, of the Niman Ranch meat family, convincingly argues that meat does not have to be bad for the environment. And since we believe a plant-based diet is nutritionally inferior, we are glad to hear it. Niman, who is also a lawyer […]
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Tags:global warming·meat