GOOD on your water foodprint GOOD magazine has put together a neat chart to visually represent your unseen water use, especially as it relates to food, which Kai from h2oconserve.org blogged about here back in February
More nutty salmonella Public health advocates say this latest outbreak is more evidence of a system in bad need of overhaul. This time, it’s pistachios, and management at Kraft Foods readily shared this information with the FDA (although they may have known since last year) unlike in the recent peanut case, where Peanut Corporation execs sat on salmonella-positive tests long enough to offload millions of pounds of product.
Dispatch from Denver Kim O’Donnel is in Denver, covering the International Association for Culinary Professional’s (IACP) annual conference, where this year’s focus on sustainability is making of a great lineup of speakers including Fred Kirschenmen and Dan Barber. Read more at A Mighty Apetite.
Fertilizers flow downstream A new US Geological Survey lists the top 150 polluted watersheds in the Mississippi River Basin that contribute to the “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. Manure and commercial fertilizers (from 9 upriver states, some as far as Tennessee) have been shown to account for more than 70% of the polluted water in the Dead Zone, which now covers 8,000 square miles. Hat tip to change.org’s Natasha Chart (rt @ doreenstabinsky)
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1 Rebecca // Apr 3, 2009 at 10:09 pm
thanks for all of the great information!
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