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Maker Faire 2010: Wall Gardens Made With Recycled Plastic

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Published May 24, 2010 at 8:20 a.m.

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Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch A favorite spot in Maker Faire is the Homegrown section, where all things food and garden related can be found. Here, makers learn how to do everything from set up a gray-water system to make their own tofu. They also can find the coolest tools for gardening, especially if space is an issue ...

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Weekday Vegetarian: Beautiful Teriyaki Vegetable and Inari Sushi Bento

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Published April 26, 2010 at 9:31 a.m.

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My husband loves sushi, but given the fact that I don't really like fish that much, raw fish is just a step too far for me. On the other hand, I really like the seasoning of much of Japanese cooking. So when Rebecca Vandevelde said she was going to make us some inari sushi it seemed like a perfect idea. Inari sushi is a very simple dish of sushi rice stuffed into deep fried tofu skins ...

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Green Kitchens Begin With Food: "Easy Green Organic" Cooking by Anna Getty

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Published April 14, 2010 at 5:08 p.m.

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Goat cheese frittata on crostini, arugula and strawberry salad, soba noodles with crumbled tofu tossed in a light Asian sauce, followed by crunchy macaroons and rich fudge cookies. Delicious. The organic buffet at the launch party for Anna Getty's new cookbook, Easy Green Organic , gave a taste of the enticing recipes using organic foods that make you itchy to jump in the kitchen and prep her flavorful dishes ...

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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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Quote of the Day: Jeff Rubin On Chinese Food Delivery

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 10:54 a.m.

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Chili Lime Tofu from Planet Green Jeff Rubin was chief economist of CIBC World Markets until he quit to write a book: Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller. He is always good for a quote, and writes in the Globe and Mail: Look at Chinese food, for example. Last year, America im ...

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How Will We Eat When Peak Oil Hits? Tofu, Tree Farms and Electric Tractors

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Published Nov. 28, 2009 at 9:06 a.m.

Image credit: Bountiful Backyards As the wonderful BBC documentary A Farm for the Future has shown us all too clearly, modern agriculture is woefully dependent on fossil fuels, and oil in particular. And with International Energy Agency (IEA) whistleblowers suggesting peak oil may be nearer than we think, and even the ...

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Sustainability in Suburbia

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Published Oct. 5, 2009 at 2:01 a.m.

Liz Walker, co-founder and executive director of EcoVillage at Ithaca, is sure to see familiar faces when walking on the pathways around the 175-acre ecovillage near Ithaca, N.Y. This morning, she walked to purchase bulk tofu because she is ...

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ILVTOFU License Plate Rejected as Obscene: More PETA PR Fluff or Veggie Freedom of Speech Issue? (Video)

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Published April 9, 2009 at 3:17 p.m.

Colorado bans woman's tofu license plate By all accounts, this doesn't seem to be another PETA publicity stunt but rather, if you will, a rather organic occurrence: Colorado woman applies for the vanity plate ILVTOFU, is rejected by ...

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Humans are Eating Too Many... Frogs

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Published Jan. 27, 2009 at 2:04 p.m.

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"Order the tofu instead," says the Frog. Public domain image ... Put the Frog Down, Sir. Step Back! Frogs aren't very lucky. They are facing habitat destruction and poisoning via various toxins in the food chain. But they're also getting eaten by humans: "international trade in frog meat represents 200 million to 1 billion frogs eaten each year, or about 11,000 tons of frog meat." Read on for more details ...

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