Loblaws at COG’s 2010 Feast of Fields
Some commentary on an article in Ottawa Magazine that has to do with Loblaw’s sponsorship of this years Feast of the Fields event in Ottawa, Ontario: It is always difficult to see a brand you hold near and dear go mainstream and that seems to be what’s happening with the Feast of Fields. Participants like [...]
Citing references to local food in US Bills.
IBM Many Bills has created an interesting visualization tool for searching through US bills. Is anyone aware of similar visualizations in the Canadian government?
Everything in a pizza pocket, the poster
Shared via here. Shared by jg This is truly a great visualization. Justin Perricone sez, "This is a poster I designed using all of the ingredients in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket. First in a series." Hot Pockets Ingredients (Thanks, Justin!)
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.
My interpretation of this book boils down to: If you & your neighbours are accustom to buying inexpensive pants which someone, somewhere was paid $2.00 CAD per hour to produce, then expect to be paid $2.00 CAD per hour to produce pants. There is a great chapter in this book on Cheap Eats & it’s [...]
Report: Monsanto corn linked to organ damage
Shared via here. Shared by jg Apparently some of these tests happened at Monsanto back in June 2000… I suppose this study is only of concern if you happen to be a mammal who eats GMO corn. Change.org reports, “The first-ever public study of the health effects of genetically modified corn shows that three patented [...]
Book: The Vegetarian Myth
An interesting book from a unique point of view that can certainly help spark some lively conversations amongst friends. Lierre writes about how she moved away from being a vegetarian and has included a few more living things to her diet adding to the billions of creatures she & her vegan friends were accustom to [...]
World Corn Production… Go Canada?
WOW! This has to be the best visualization tool for the world’s agricultural data which I’ve found to date. Gapminder has done an incredible job here exposing some of the UN’s data and made it very easy to ‘fool around’ with. Here is one of the animated graphs I’ve made: Visualization from Gapminder World, powered [...]
Savour Ottawa – Eat local and let someone else cook!
Mmmm… fresh food. Visit www.savourottawa.ca for more pictures, videos and links.
Benefit of Backyard Chickens: Tastier than Dogs.
Here is an interesting article about a book published down-under. Prof Brenda and Robert Vale found the carbon footprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre SUV driven 10,000 kilometres a year… …there is certainly some truth in the fact that if we have edible pets like chickens for their eggs and [...]
Eat this Not that – David Zinczenko
If you’re the type of person who stands in the grocery store with three different bags of chips in hand comparing all of the nutritional information, then this book’s for you. A very visual book, it’s worth borrowing from a library to pick up the various tips of what to look for when identifying ‘good’ [...]