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Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
After a hugely successful video marketing campaign, Chipotle has come up with a four episode, scripted comedy, "Farmed and Dangerous" a Hulu video series.
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Morrissey and PETA Team Up to Show the Life Cycle of a Factory-Farmed Chicken
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The legendary singer and animal rights activist lent his talents to an animated film that might just get you to go meat-free.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
How would you like to be separated from you family at birth only to face a life of incarceration and slaughter? No more factory-farmed chickens, please!
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At This Zero-Waste Grocery Store, Plastic and Packaging Aren’t Allowed
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When Original Unverpackt makes its debut in Germany, consumers will bring their own containers and bags.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
Imagine a world without trash . . . can the next generation make it better? Our generation has "littered the world".
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Here’s the Dirt on Urban Gardens: They May Be Better for Plants Than a Farm
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A new study of community garden plots in the U.K. shows that the soil health far surpasses that of surrounding farmland.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
You don’t have to move to the country to farm. You can bring the farm to the city. Reports show the urban soil is better than farmland.
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Wanna know what’s happened to the Gulf Coast since the BP spill? Read this blog, now
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The Bridge the Gulf blog is hands-down the best source of post-spill news and insight, written by locals who have a stake in the recovery.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
No concensus of opinion on the BP spill. BP is wrapping up "active clean up". Residents are saying the same things as they did four years ago. And it is not OK!
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Why Cantor’s defeat is terrible for the climate — and the country
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The House majority leader lost the GOP primary to a Tea Party challenger. That’s a terrible omen for any sort of policy progress or competent governance.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
If candidates who oppose collaboration and sane solutions to the many serious problems facing us keep winning, I am afraid the bell might go off before we solve things.
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The five ways to stop climate change. Oh, wait, make that one way
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A new study ranks the actions we could take against climate change.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
Will we be in time to keep the planet inhabitable for number of people on it now?
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Sandwiches for not a Lot of Bread: Panera Opens Third Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant
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“Patriesia Hernandez gives a receipt to a customer at a Panera Bread Co restaurant in Chicago. (Photo: Reuters)
Popular sandwich chain Panera Bread Co. is expanding its “Panera Cares” line of pay-what-you-can “community cafes” to the west coast, with their third location opening in Portland.”
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
We need more of this kind of giving. Things are really difficult for some of us and the government is playing hardball more and more. So it has to come from the private sector, retail business, etc.
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The Front Lines: Poverty and Homelessness in Southwest Yonkers | Untapped Cities
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THE FRONT LINES is a nonfiction assemblage of stories and photos detailing modern-day poverty and homelessness in southwest Yonkers, NY.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
Poverty and homelessness exist juxtaposed to areas of the NYC area that are their antithesis. So near yet so far apart.
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The Food Project | MexicanSugarSkull.com
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ART & BYTES on tumblr
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
This wedding cake is based on the theme of "Til Death Do Us Part’, the dia de los muertos, a Mexican tradition. The design uses the traditional sugar skull motif.
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