by Winnie Yang
A compelling piece by Michael Specter in the February 25, 2008, issue of The New Yorker discusses the complexities of carbon footprints — specifically the economics of reducing environmental impact — and how corporations, researchers, and even investors are addressing the issue.
About a third of the article is devoted to the carbon footprint […]

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An article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal on reducing environmental impact through use of a garbage disposal got us thinking about the various options for managing your organic waste (n.b. you’ll need a subscription in order to read the entire article). There are garbage disposals, yes, but also composting. If you’ve been looking […]

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As the American Foreign Press reported on Monday, Carlo Petrini has rejected the French call for their gastronomy to be preserved on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, saying “it was wrong to try to rank world cuisines.”
His problem with this request is not that French gastronomy isn’t worthy of preservation, but rather that ALL gastronomy is […]

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What better symbol of our commitment to Slow principles and ecological living than growing a garden? Home food production is almost a forgotten art, but Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) and Portland, Maine convivium leader David Buchanan are working to reverse today’s downward trends and help revive our gardens.
By David Buchanan
According to USDA statistics, today we […]

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This list in The Chicago Tribune of “Food Movies that Deserve an Oscar,” from 2007, got us thinking.  With the exception of “Ratatouille,” by the way, they’re not really food movies, per se.  But the mention of food’s role in “The Bucket List” — a movie about two guys doing all the things they’ve dreamed […]

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Based on all the emails we got, Slow Food friends from around the country were captivated by the NY Times article about “slow design” a few weeks ago. It was such a hit that the San Francisco Chronicle also ran the story the following week.
It got us thinking about the intersections of Slow Food […]

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Note #1.
“Only in America,” points out Slow Food USA staffer Cecily, “is the choice between rent and food turned into an advertising gimmick.”
And a question: is just one person meant to eat the two breakfast sandwiches AND the four cinnamon buns? Just checking.
Note #2.
On Sunday, as we all know, the largest beef recall in […]

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Slow Food Chicago member Anne Marie Klaske of NA-DA FARM (near DeKalb, IL) wrote to us about her family’s unexpected encounter with the NAIS system.
An interesting reverberation and consequence that none of us might have anticipated. Please do jump in with your thoughts on this one:
I wanted to share w/SlowFood USA our family’s experience […]

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As I and many others have pointed out, the loss of as much as 70-80% of the US honeybee population to Colony Collapse Disorder is a far greater concern than missing that spot of honey in your lavender soy chai.
Premium ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs has joined in to sound the alarm about CCD and the […]

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The commercial/consumption aspects of Valentine’s Day are not so slow, and yet, and yet…the “holiday” manages to hold its allure. Expressing love, eating chocolate, sharing a meal with loved one(s)–who could have a problem with that? And so, here goes our V-day round-up:
The New York Times ran an interesting article yesterday about the […]

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