The Green Issue

[errantember]

This is a brief but excellent article by Michael Polan, author of The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and, most recently, In Defense of Food. It's about the whole global warming/climate change/peak oil/expensive gas dilemma that most Americans are finally being forced to face when they refuel their SUVs. Polan's work, particularly The Omnivore's Dilemma, has led to a fundamental shift in the way I eat, live, and garden. You don't have to read his work, but if you do, you will be changed forever.

Comments

[spottedvasa.livejournal.com]

This makes me wish even more strongly that there weren't so many wonderful people living South-side.

A two-hour bus ride? Seriously? *sigh*

[kiki39.livejournal.com]

http://100milediet.org/

'Nother one for you!

[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

This has been on my mind for years, but I'm now in a place where I really can start doing something about it. I am putting in vegetables in the next few weeks now that the vines are planted. I just bought a bike and will soon be equipping it with an electric assist so I can use it to reasonably get back and forth to work, given the shape I'm in. (Once the train starts running, getting back and forth to work with the bike will be a complete breeze. In the meantime it's free exercise, though it will mean my transit time will triple.) And since most everyone I know has been thinking intentional community thoughts for a while now, I think I will go ahead and start an LJ community for it once I have some info to post.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. I bought Omnivore's Dilemma a while back (it is sitting on a friend's bookshelf now-busy making the rounds of all my friends) and really found it amazing. This was a great article! Makes me want to pick up the planning for the yard where I left off...now if only I could find a book to tell me how to do that within my limitations I wouldn't be so frustrated...