Weekday Vegetarian Gets The Nod From TIME and PETA

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:01 p.m.
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Kerr for Time Graham Hill's Weekday Vegetarian concept is controversial among some of our readers, who don't think people should eat meat at all. But Time Magazine says that only 2.5% of Americans are strict vegetarians or vegans, and Graham's idea is that any cutback in meat consumption is good for the environment. Not everyone has the discipline to go, dare I say, whole hog; according to Vegetarian Times, a full 10% of Americans follow a "vegetarian-inclined" diet. But the most surprising

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What's the Secret to Enjoying a Healthy Diet? Guy Watson of Riverford Organic has the Answer (Video)

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 9:20 a.m.
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There's a myth that to eat healthily we must eat boring tasteless food. But there's fight on to persuade people that eating a balanced diet can be utterly delicious. Jamie Oliver has taken on the nutrition battle this year with his TED prize, Michael Pollan has published his entertaining ...

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Why Graham Hill Is a Weekday Vegetarian, and Why You Should Be Too! (Video)

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Published May 27, 2010 at 7:52 a.m.
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Image via TED A weekday vegetarian is someone who only eats meat on the weekends, drastically cutting their food carbon footprint without totally giving up BBQs and beef stews. We can curb climate change by as much as 70%, just by returning to a diet light on meat like we once enjoyed. In February, Graham presented his idea to the audience at TED 2010. Now you can check out his 3-minute tal ...

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Ask Pablo: What Is The Carbon Footprint Of Tofu?

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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 7:13 a.m.
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Image Source: Sifu RenkaDear Pablo: I eat a lot of tofu as part of my vegetarian diet but it seems to me that this may conflict with my concerns for the environment. What is the carbon footprint of tofu?Tofu is made from soybeans by curdling soy milk much like cheese is made from cow milk. The soybeans require very little, if any, irrigation and they "fix" about 1 pound of nitrogen in the soil per plant because they are legumes. The nitrogen put into the soil by the soybean plants reduces the

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Terra Madre Day: Celebrating 20 Years of Slow Food Excellence

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Published Nov. 29, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
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photo: J. Novak Slow Food is the organization that first brought me to sustainable eating. It showed me how to enjoy the experience of eating the best in local foods. I learned that often times local foods are easier on the planet than organic if they are grown sustainably and that my diet was one of the best tools in my plight to reduce my carbon footprint. December 10 marks the first annual Terra Madre Day celebration ...

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Factory Farms, Deforestation, Subsidies and Soy: UK Campaign Connects the Dots (Video)

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Published Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:48 a.m.
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Image credit: FOE From Meatless Mondays to Weekday Vegetarianism to going raw food vegan to adopting the 100-Mile Diet, there are plenty of individual act ...

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Vegetarian's Rebuttal to 'The Carnivore's Dilemma'

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Published Nov. 7, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.
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Me ... You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment ... Credit: Ethicurean Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled "The Carnivore's Dilemma"--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst these voices is Michael Pollan, author of "Omnivore's Dilemma ...

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Alicia Silverstone on Her New Book, The Kind Diet, Organic Gardening, and Cow Farts (Interview)

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 4:15 p.m.
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It's been a long time since Alicia Silverstone was "Clueless." Since then she's earned accolades on screen and stage, most recently in Donald Marguilies's Time Stands Still, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, which she'll take to Broadway in January. At the same time, the longtime environmental activist's unique brand of non-judgmental yet no-holds-barred diet advice was earning a different kind of approval, as she recently told in this interview [excerpted from EcoStilletto]. The

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80,000 Baltimore Students Join Meatless Monday Movement

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Published Oct. 7, 2009 at 11:09 a.m.
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photo: Alpha via flickr ... By now you've probably heard that adopting a vegetarian diet, or at least cutting way down on you meat consumption, is a great way to reduce you ecological footprint and get some great health benefits at the same time. Now students in the Baltimore City Public School System will have a little help in doing that. The BCPS has begun participating in the ...

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Valley of the 100-Mile Diet Bike Tour

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Published Aug. 14, 2009 at 8:16 p.m.
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Fraser Valley cornfields in the heart of 100-Mile Diet country. Photo via Flickr by keepitsurreal Come to the Fraser Valley, home of the 100-Mile Diet, where locavores can feast on artisanal cheeses, organic produce and hand-crafted wines, and get an insider’s peak into food production at local farms. A self-guided map shows the way through the Agassiz and Chilliwack Farm Cycle Tours with many stops open to the public only on these two days. The Slow Food Movement of Vancouver hosts th ...

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