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Entries Tagged as 'Sustainability'

How Do You Define “Sustainable”?

March 5th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Sustainability

“Defining sustainability is not the problem,” says farmer and Leopold Center fellow Fred Kirshenmann. “The debate is over how we do it. And we don’t have a lot of time left to figure out how to keep our food system going.” Speaking to a conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars titled “Reviving […]

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Day-After Christmas Farmers Market

December 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Sustainability

The Dupont Circle farmers market here in the District of Columbia is usually jammed with shoppers on Sunday even during the winter. I made my usual walk there this morning and thought at first the market was closed, perhaps because of the Christmas holiday, or maybe because the weatherman is forecasting a possible snow storm. […]

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Leaving the Car at Home

December 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blog, Sustainability

Here’s my gift to planet earth: When I have to run errands, I leave the car in the driveway and walk. We had a couple of books that needed to be returned the the library. That would be the central library here in the District of Columbia, the Martin Luther King Jr. Library downtown. That’s […]

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