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The No Impact Project week’s in full swing now, and those of us who’ve signed on are taking a closer look at our carbon “foodprint” today. So I asked Colin to tell us a bit more about his year-long adventure in ecological eating:

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Think you’re sustainable in your plastic use? You use cloth shopping bags and recycle all the plastic you can, so you’regood right?

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With 25 teams of chefs and farmers from the Ottawa region, Canadian Organic Growers’ 5th annual Feast of Fields hosted this tremendous gastronomical delight along the Rideau River in Vincent Massey Park. In two quick hours of meeting farmer and chef teams from the region and sampling their creations, guests tasted some of the best the Ottawa Valley has to offer.

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Want to get a look inside their year of No Impact? Find a screening of the No Impact movie near you(or host one!)! New Yorkers – join Kerry Trueman and me at the Angelika theater on September 15th at 7:00, where we’ll field your questions about sustainable food and how it fits into a low-impact lifestyle.

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Local food is not only a tasty alternative to its over-processed, over-traveled industrially-produced counterparts, but it’s also patriotic to support local farmers. As this recent Washington Post article about the campaign points out, the bulk of garlic sold in the US is now produced in China. Buying locally grown garlic would encourage farmers here to grow more of it, eventually allowing us to wean ourselves off of the foreign stuff. Perhaps more importantly, buying local supports our local economies and helps to keep American farmers, who’ve dropped by more than half since the 1930s, in business.

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